Greetings my name is Robert and I’m an inmate at the Lancaster State Prison.
I will share just a little bit of my testimony with you. Before I came to the Lord Jesus Christ, I was a gang member and criminal. I was angry, resentful, and a miserable person. I allowed my circumstances to change the course of my life. At the age of 16 that was sentenced to die in prison for killing another person. I take full responsibility for my actions and I didn’t care the harm that I caused to them and their families. While in prison I was a very violent person and in 2016 I was sentenced to the Security Housing Unit for two years of Pelican Bay State Prison. This is called solitary confinement and it is a prison within a prison.
In the Fall of 2017, I had about a year and a half in solitary confinement. I was channel surfing and I landed on TBN a Christian station. I saw on the TV the title called “What is Love?” For some reason I left it on the channel and turned into the program. I saw Dr. Charles Stanley a Christian televangelist speak about God ‘s love and how to practice God ‘s love and how to love your neighbor. I found myself taking notes and writing down Bible verses that he was referencing. When the program ended, I was left wanting to know more. The following week I turned in again and I now had a Bible to check what he was referring to. When I opened up that Bible and read it for myself, it changed everything. All the questions I’ve ever had were answered as I began to read more. I realized the Bible is the Word of God and it convicted me but also enlightened me. It showed me how lost I was. How foolish and horrible I was. It was then that I felt the guilt and shame of my past actions. It was then I knew that I couldn’t keep doing what I was doing. I could not be the source of any more pain and suffering. It was in the Fall of 2017 that I repented and accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. It has been five years since I made that decision and my life has changed in a wonderful way. Yes, I’m still in prison but there is joy and hope in me that this world cannot take away. God is good all the time.
I have been attending for about a year now Christian Protestant Services with Dr. Emerick and his wife Claudia. I am enrolled in their two-year Bible Institute Program that they offer and I have completed more than half of the curriculum. This is a great way to study and learn the Word of God.
Please share my testimony with others so they can find new life in Jesus like I have!!