http://groups.googlexom/group/alt.prisons/msg/60cb208d363c9el9...-wKcY-yOZG4L4RBaNOPMHChHce_nALvBOn30t8ZY-ofl_6qP0&output=gplai] From: revjims@aol.com (RevJimS) Subject: Re: Hey Everyone, I Wanna Be.... Date: 1997/09/05 Message-ID: <19970905190101.PAA12788@ladder01.news.aol.com>#l/l X-Deja-AN: 270036217 References: <01bcb9a7$00a4ab40$3f5b82ce@patkeena> X- Admin: news@aol.com Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Newsgroups: alt.prisons In article <01bcb9a7$00a4ab40$3f5b82ce@patkeena>, "Pat Keenan" writes: >This writer called the right reverend a phoney. I never doubted his >criminal past and his being incarcerated. >I call him PHONEY because he obviously falls into the same bracket that so >many mopes fall into when they become incarcerated, ie. FINDING GOD. >Break the law and you go to jail. Want to do it easy? Find God and >everybody will fall all over you supplying you with Bible study material, >mailing lists, visits from Bible thumpers, etc, etc, etc. >I am glad if the right reverend is now fulfilled and happy in his work, but >until I meet this guy face to face I have a hunch that he is a phoney >ex-con that did his time the easy way. >Question.. why did you wait until prison to find your vocation? >I guess it takes a good B&E or an assault or a bank robbery to bring the >real person out, eh!< PAT - Yes, there is apparently a misunderstanding. I began studying for ordination in 1988. I was ordained in December 1994. I was sentenced and went to prison in January 1996. I took my faith to prison with me, and it was one of the msot important factors in maintaining my sanity while incarcerated. And my offense was not B&E, or assault or bank robbery - it was misuse of a credit card. >Do me a favour and pray for me next time you are in your CHURCH rev. < I don't have to be in church to pray, Pat. God listens to us anytime, anywhere we ask for His attention. I do pray for all COs & inmates with http://groups.google.com /group/alt.prisons/msg/60cb2...L4RBaNOPMHChHce_nALvBOn30t8ZY-ofl_6qP0&output=gplain (1 of 2)7/9/2007 4:27:43 AM http://groups.google.com/group/alt.prisons/msg/60cb208d363c9el9. ..-wKcY-yOZG4L4RBaNOPMHChHce_nALvBOn30t8ZY-ofl_6qP0&output=£ every prayer, including my prayers when in church as a congregant or celebrating services. You are included in my prayers. >Any prison staff that fall for your line of crap should go back to basic >training! >Thanks for listening, >P. Keenan< Actually, I have had the honor of meeting quite a few prison staff who are also Christians, and enjoyed fellowship with them. They, too are frustrated by prison conditions, and hope for changes and enlightenment of other prison staff. Rev. James M. Sutter, D.D., D.B., C.P.M. Pastor, Doers of the Word Baptist Fellowship Church Pastor, ULC of Ohio Cleveland, Ohio, USA WEB site at http://members.aol.com/RevJimS/index.html (Revised and updated 6/97) Comments always welcome. lt.prisons/msg/60cb2...L4RBaNOPMHChHce_nALvBOn30t8ZY-ofl_6qP0&output=gplain (2 of 2)7/9/2007 4:27:43 AM