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Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth Texas recently graduated 33 "lifers" in prison with seminary degrees. I first mentioned this in this post.
This morning, I had breakfast with the man who has been behind this whole thing, Grove Norwood. Grove is a Vietnam era Air Force fighter pilot with quite a story, and it's remarkable how he ended up being part of this amazing story. This story actually began about 5 years ago, but recently graduated their first class of men who have little to no hope of ever getting out of prison, and will be transferred to other prisons within Texas to serve as chaplains and chaplain's assistants.
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Grove has invited me to go with him, (and I can take a couple other men) to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana to spend 3 days visiting in the prison, meeting men in a similar setting, and learning more about this program.
I have heard stories about the remarkable transformation of some of the men who are in prison for murder, rape, robbery, etc - and this isn't by any means a "get out of jail free" card - it is made clear up front that getting a seminary degree should not be considered as having any impact whatsoever on their chances for eventual release.
Who best can preach and minister to prisoners, than somebody who has walked that road?
This morning, I had breakfast with the man who has been behind this whole thing, Grove Norwood. Grove is a Vietnam era Air Force fighter pilot with quite a story, and it's remarkable how he ended up being part of this amazing story. This story actually began about 5 years ago, but recently graduated their first class of men who have little to no hope of ever getting out of prison, and will be transferred to other prisons within Texas to serve as chaplains and chaplain's assistants.
Grove.jpgSeminary Students.jpgnews-prison.jpg
Grove has invited me to go with him, (and I can take a couple other men) to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana to spend 3 days visiting in the prison, meeting men in a similar setting, and learning more about this program.
I have heard stories about the remarkable transformation of some of the men who are in prison for murder, rape, robbery, etc - and this isn't by any means a "get out of jail free" card - it is made clear up front that getting a seminary degree should not be considered as having any impact whatsoever on their chances for eventual release.
Who best can preach and minister to prisoners, than somebody who has walked that road?
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