August 24. 2010

So in the month of July we had 75 requests for the Left Behind series books, I have several inmates, both male and female involved in the series. I have heard great testimonies about how the series has changed their whole outlook on end times. Thanks so much to those of you that have donated books to our library. If you have good Christian novels, please let me know, right now we need about six more copies of the first book of Left Behind, female novels, authors like Karen Cokesbury, Janette Oke, Beth Moore, etc. I cannot distribute any secular books due to union labor rules, but I can distribute “religious literature”
I can also use gently used study Bibles, no zippers or metal please.
Please continue to pray that God would speak to the heart of the readers.

Chaplain John

As you may be aware, Dennis and I have been trying to get good Christian books into the hands of the inmates here in the Summit County Jail.
We have been asking that if you have books in your library that you would be willing to donate that are in good shape we would love to take them off of your hands and get them into circulation. We also receive a lot of requests for study Bibles, remember there can be no metal, so that rules out zippered Bibles and most chapter tabs.

I wanted to give you an update on the progress of this effort…. I have received several hundred books and I have to tell you the books are going fast. Just today, I rolled our book cart into the gymnasium while the inmates were getting their exercise and they were on the cart like I had just set a table filled with steak and baked potatoes. One of the inmates asked me if we had any of the Left Behind series available and it just so happened that I had been given the whole series by someone just a few days before. He began to tell me that the guys were so into that series that they wouldn’t even come out of their cells for hours. I gave him the whole set for his housing unit and he is going to make sure that they stay in circulation on the pod so that not any one person monopolizes the series. Needless to say, I am asking that if any of you have the Left Behind series and would be willing to part with them , I would like to have 15 more sets, one for each pod.

If you would be interested in giving books, please contact me by email and we will make arrangements to pick them up. Remember, material gifts are tax deductible, and will be receipted upon request.

Thanks so much,

Chaplain John Wiseman