Steve Baird

I feel serving the Lord in the Kairos Prison Ministry has changed my life. Every time I feel the calling from the Lord to serve in the Kairos ministry the enemy starts the attacks. Which shows me the miracles and changes that the lord is going to do through this ministry. What the Lord has taught me is how to do spiritual battle by what to pray against and how to pray and fast against the chains the enemy try's to put on me for excepting the call to serve the Lord Jesus Christ in the Kairos Prison Ministry. The miracles I have seen in Kairos can only confirm to me over and over how real God is. Amen

 Denise Pizzi

Forgiveness has saved my life. Here's the story.

By the time I was 14 there were 13 family members and/or friends that in some way had created a scenario where i was the "victim".

When i was 23 yrs. old a lot of my past was coming back to me. I had repressed some, or just chose not to feel some, (the usual survival things). They were coming up and I was angry and hurt and feeling that lump of blackness in my heart and throat and gut... I wasn't a person that felt revenge, or just due, or an eye for an eye thing, so i really had no where to put the anger and lump. it just sat in me - festering. It was consuming me. The worst thing was that I had only scratch the surface of the abuses... I needed help.

I was speaking with my counselor at the time on how i was feeling and she suggested I read:

Freedom of Forgiveness by David-Augsburger

I swear to you Pastor Ken, it saved my life. One of my biggest misgivings was that i thought that forgiving the person meant my saying that what they did was "okay" and that i still liked them and that i would forget all about it although i felt damaged for the rest of my life - "i forgive them". That somehow forgiveness was making what they did to me not important - I was not important. That forgiveness minimized the horrors done. Minimized my pain.

After I read the book, I was literally reborn. I was free. It really did turn my life around in many ways. It was at that moment in my life that I began to get closer to God and trust in Him like i did when i was younger. I had never know such freedom before. It, I am sure was not just the book but a time in my life that I needed to move forward from the blackness. My heart was so heavy. The "feeling" of truly forgiving someone...... awesome.

My counselor and I have known since my early 20's that the two things that have saved me from being so much more dysfunctional and angry (as so many women in my position are ) is that through it all I had Hope. I had witnessed God's love at a young age and hung on to it. And because i have been quick to forgive.

I am not able to forgive and then be all love dovey right away, but i come around. If it was the real nasty stuff? Well, i definitely am not going to be right there holding their hand- all friendly like - I just ain't that good!! LOL - but i feel the joy, freedom and POWER of forgiveness. It is indescribably wonderful. I hope I have been able to describe to you.

Thank you so much for once again, reminding me of the path I must be walking - daily and sometimes minute by minute. You always say it just perfect - or is it that God is having me hear it just perfect!!!