I was blessed enough to be asked to serve as Spiritual Director on Residents Encounter Christ weekend #32 at the Kentucky State Reformatory last week. This was probably my fifteenth or sixteenth weekend of this sort, but never in the capacity of spiritual leader.
The weekend was such a tremendous blessing to me personally, and I know the Holy Spirit truly changed the lives of many of the inmates in attendance. Several made decisions or rededications for Christ, and one inmate even made a renunciation of a sinful lifestyle choice that had plagued him since he was a youth.
The REC program, as well as the Walk to Emmaus program above it, has been so pivotal in shaping my Christian walk and helping me discern and accept my call to the ministry. I pray that more and more men, women and youth will consider going on an Emmaus, REC or Chrysalis (teen/young adult) weekend. Their lives will be forever changed for the good.
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