Heartfelt Thanks

A note of immeasurable gratitude to all of you who supported me this past weekend during our Kairos team’s work at Pendleton Correctional.  I’d love to share a few things that made the time with the 42 offenders a blessing.

Moments of Joy

• Receiving 60+ dozen of baked chocolate chip cookies from a good friend and brother to take into the men.  Robert - My thanks to you and your wonderful wife for this gift.  All in, we took in 2,954 DOZEN cookies (that’s 35,448 cookies for those doing the math). Lots were eaten and we hand-delivered one dozen cookies to each inmate in their cells at the facility.  Your prayers were felt.
• Being surprised almost daily with a check in the mail from many of you.  WOW!
• Seeing your names on the prayer chart, and being able to point and say “that’s my mom/best friend from college/friend from church/aunt/uncle” praying for you right now.  It allowed me to see hardened men eyes wide, full of tears and speechless.
• Sitting down for a meal and seeing placemats with my nieces' and nephew’s names on them, or beautiful quotes and art drawn by the girls in the Junior Daughters of the King group from my church.  Many of these became keepsakes that the men took with them.
• Witnessing the prayer chain ring that ran the circumference of the gym, each ring with your names and the names of others who support this ministry. 
• Being there for the moment when God pointed all of creation over years and years in order to save one young man’s life…literally.  My Dad or I can tell you the story next time one of us is with you, and it is powerful!  Romans 8:28 in full force.
• Sitting at the closing ceremony with family and friends who were there rejoicing in seeing lives changed, souls redeemed and men with new names.

Favorite Quotes

• Whenever someone would say, “God is good!” there was resounding response of “ALL THE TIME!” from the men.
• Shortly after my Dad told the story of how much he paid for me to be born at an Air Force hospital ($1.38), one of the volunteers brought me and another volunteer, whose name was Buck Small, to the front of the room and said, “Meet my two new best friends…Buck Small and Buck Thirty-Eight!”.
• As the common misconception of The Church (buildings, organizations, religions, denominations) was set aside, and we asked the question, “Who is The Church?” and the men shouted “WE ARE THE CHURCH!"

The blessing our team was able to be for these men, and the manifold blessings we received in return, will resonate out from all those who played some role in the weekend…volunteers, inmates and you.

The weekend was heaven, God’s Kingdom here on earth, real time.

My most sincere, deepest and heartfelt thanks to each of you.  I am truly blessed to have you as a part of my life.

Scott

Kairos Prison Update - Prayer Vigil and Closing Ceremony

Friends, Family and Loved Ones - 

First and foremost, my most sincere and humble thanks for your support of this ministry.  The notes, calls and words of encouragement have been a blessing beyond measure.

As some of you noticed, the prayer vigil signup on the 3dayOL website had the wrong dates.  I have good news and bad news on this.  Bad news, we’ve been unable to fix this on the web site, so the file will be removed.  But, the GOOD, news is that we have a new link…and ALL of the spots are pretty much open.  If you were previously stuck with a time in the middle of the night, now is the time to get yourself a better one!  :-)  For those of you familiar with Doodle, it is an easy to use sign up site.  See the instructions at the bottom of this post.

If you are interested in attending the Closing Ceremony on Sunday October 19th, email me and I can give you details.  I will need your name as it appears on your driver’s license.  Even if you are not sure you can come, getting your name on the gate release list is required, but it has no obligation; you can cancel.  But, if you’re not on the list, you cannot be added last-minute.

And, of course, if any of you want to send cookies, placemats, donations or just a prayer, reply to me and I’ll give you details.  My heartfelt appreciation for those who have done this already.

Thanks again for your support.  Blessings to each of you!

Scott

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DOODLE INSTRUCTIONS

Link: https://doodle.com/6q3ima65yuaeqydq

When you follow the link to our chart, you will see all of the time slots listed in a horizontal line.  The time listed is the start of each 30 minute time slot.  To sign up, scroll to the bottom of the name list and type in your name, followed by a “/” then the city and state where you are located .  This will show the men how far our prayer vigil reaches geographically.  Then scroll to the right and click each time period you would like to pray.  You can choose more than one time period for your name, however, each time period can only be filled by one name.  If you see “0/1” under the time period, it is still open.  After you have picked all your times for prayer, scroll all the way to the right and select SAVE.

This system will not send you a reminder of the time you have selected, so keep the link handy to go back to check your times.  

After you have saved your selections, you will be asked for your address and email.  This information WILL NOT be posted on the prayer vigil chart but it will be helpful for us in case we need to contact you regarding this prayer vigil.  

If you have any questions, please contact Kirk Hunter atkrhunter@msn.com.