Steve Ridenour
“Now I had received God's miracles and I had faith in what God can do, but to believe that I was going home in 4 months after I had just been given a seven and a half year sentence in prison was hard to swallow.”
Bassam
“My father delivered me to the Security Forces and they arrested me and put me in prison for converting out of Islam… They used electric shocks, beatings, and hanging me from my wrists all night. After few week of this I was put in solitary confinement for almost a year.”
Darrell Anderson
“I was arrested for the first time for solicitation in June of 1994 on O'Farrell Street... In December 1996, I was arrested again for solicitation… Lord got my attention and told me ‘this is the last time you will get off easy, so you better get your act together’… On November 20, 1997, it happened again. I was arrested for solicitation on 18th and Capp Streets.”
Paul Ciniraj Mohamed
“The Jama’ath authorities chained me, shaved my head, locked me in an underground cellar when yet another person became a Christian. When I tried to escape acid was sprayed on me. I was beaten up several times and even lost a few teeth.”
Marty
“Let me just say that I was either drunk and/or high every night and spent more than one evening in jail. I followed the Lord for several years before I found myself backsliding. I guess I had never totally given myself to the Lord.”
Joe Robison (2)
“But after I was released from jail it was so hard, as I tried to establish a life where I actually had bills to pay, etc.,. I had never been able to complete a probation term before. The first six months was a real struggle.”
Joe Robison (1)
“She was in prison, and after raising these two by myself for three and a half years, the state took them from me (though I loved all my children with all my heart; and vice-versa), because I was jail prone, and had no one else to help with them, when I got into trouble with the law.”
Abdelrahman
“They put me in jail and started to investigate me, asking about other converts and about missionaries. I was lucky that I had not been baptized yet because they emphasized the following questions: ‘Have you ever been baptized?!’ ‘Who baptized you?!’ ‘Which church do you attend?!’ ‘Who evangelized you?!’”
Dusty Donnay
“I started tattooing in prison, I’ve been there six times… I’d gone through a grip of institutions, other prisons, and work releases… ended up in prison in Minnesota for armed robbery… Was president of the prison biker gang, the “Prison Motorcycle Brotherhood’…”
Lisa Walker
“Macon Y.D.C. wasn’t like regular juvenile..it was a step down from women’s prison..where the real problem teens were sent. One girl was there for murder because she was too young for prison…I was in another violent place.”
Timothy Abraham
“In prison, my Savior knows I have come to experience true peace. I was not shaken because I saw Christ in prison, not myself. I sang songs of joy in the midst of tears…”
Scot Crone
“When I did go out I drank and I drugged and got jailed a lot... I took notice of this for about 5 mins then carried on doing what I did best (or so I thought) got into lots more trouble, street fights, arrests the usual.”
Kader
“As a family and individually, we suffered a lot under the French occupation. My father was jailed many times…”
Arthur Cummings (A.C. “da Preacha”)
“In the year 1993, he turned to a life of hanging out, partying and drinking, and doing/selling drugs. Within a year's time A.C. went from respectable war hero, to street thug/drug dealer, to a convict that landed in the Duval County Jail on several occasions.”