From jail to Jesus: Ex-addict’s transformative journey
Emily Pollok
Just before he received his last prison sentence in 2019, Lewis Gibson was living in a homeless hostel. He’d been warned that he would end up in jail again if he continued on his drug-fuelled lifestyle.
‘I was in despair, because I knew I was going back to prison,’ Lewis explained. At a crisis point, Gibson turned to a United Christian Broadcasters (UCB) devotional he’d picked up during a previous stint in prison. In it, he read Romans 10:13: ‘Whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.’
Only Christ truly transforms inmates, says prison governor as she steps down
Emily Pollok
Coming to faith in Christ is the only thing that really transforms people in prison, says a Christian ex-jail governor.
Susie Richardson, Jersey’s prison governor for the past three years, stepped down from her post last month, closing the chapter on a 20-year career in the prison system.
From darkness and guns to God
Claud Jackson first held a gun in his hands at the age of six. Now, over 30 years later, he is working as a curate, studying for the ministry and preparing to return to the same London neighbourhoods – but this time with a Bible in his hands.
His story is one of poverty, abuse, drug dealing and violence – and of a life turned round by a loving God who refused to give up on him.