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Unto One of the Least of These My Brethren
Part 2

CONNIE: Gooding morning everyone and welcome to part 2 of our week long radio visit with Don McClure from the Someone Cares Prison Ministry. I’m Connie Jeffery, and every time that we have Don as a guest it’s a little rest-bit for our telephone operators, because his line is the one that absolutely lights up. Don and Yvonne literally have hundreds of great men and women who volunteer each year to help with their letter writing. This week as he visits with us, he would like to extend an offer to you as well to get involved. If you would like what you hear today, and you want to become involved, you can call Don and Yvonne at, (260) 492-7770. Their Address is, P.O. Box 15338, in Fort Wayne, Indiana 46885, or you may find Don and Yvonne online at: www.someonecares.org. Well that’s enough of a commercial, and I know that you want to hear from Lonnie and Don just as I do, so let’s join them right now.

LONNIE: Don McClure, from “Someone Cares Prison Ministry”, welcome back to the Voice of Prophecy. We’re so delighted to have you in the studio, and it’s so nice and one of our high points of the year when we can get you and Yvonne to come in and share what’s going on out there in prison. Don, let’s talk a little bit today about Jesus, Jesus came to seek and save the lost, then told us to do likewise, talk about that for a little bit.

DON: I told you yesterday of my background, and when I became a Christian was lost. I now know that I am a Christian, and I now know that the Bible say’s to do something, like go forth, but where? I was never a kid, because I grew up in the fast track of crime, streets, gangs, and everything else. I tried being a youth leader and that was disastrous, but then HMS Richards Sr. told me, “Don, ask God”. So I asked God and went to church the next day, and the associate pastor said, “Hey Don, there’s a whole gospel business lunching in this town, and I don’t know who they are or what they are about, but would you go and check it out with me”? Well, a free lunch? You bet! So we went, and the speaker was from prison, a prison volunteer, and everything that he was saying about the Bible I didn’t understand, but everything that he was saying about prison I knew was wrong, because I had been there. So now I am saying Lord, “I can’t work at the church office, I’ve tried that; in fact, I got in to so much trouble over ingathering; we went out in a band to sing songs, but I sing so bad that they made me go to the door to ask for money. So I collected all the money and came back to the church, and the pastor asked me what I’d said in order to get the money. So I told him, that I had said, since I had no idea what to say, “If you don’t give me money for the Lord you’re going to hell”. Not a good idea, but prison was.

LONNIE: You felt a calling to back to that place where you had spent so much of your life.

DON: Yes, and now, in fact, I just preached at my 650 church and that’s a blessing. I asked the preachers, people are sitting in the pews dying, and people are sitting at home listening to people like Benny Hinn, and all the rest of these fanatical preachers, you start to grow suspicious when you see the same person being healed on 3 different programs for 3 different reason, something is wrong, especially the whole money business idea. I learned that if you ask people to do something, they’ll try. We’re in a world of turmoil, Bible prophecy screaming, wars, rumors of war, and pestilence. God has a job for everybody, but you’ve got to find out what that is. So we devised a program, “The Paper Sunshine”, which is where people who don’t want to knock on doors, pass out tracts, don’t want to get up front…

LONNIE: Don’t want to go right to the prison themselves.

DON: Now, they can write from the safety and comfort of their homes to an inmate, and maybe not even bring them to Christ, but bring them to a friend.

LONNIE: So that when Jesus said in Matthew 25, “I was in prison and you visited me”, you can invite these people into the prison and write through “The Paper Sunshine”.

DON: And if you want to use that scripture, flip it over, Jesus a little later says, “I was in prison and you visited me not”, and then what He tells is going to happen to them. Now does that mean that they have to physically go to a prison? Does it mean that the prison they are taking about is one of the institutions like you have in California, or is it the prison of the TV set, is it the prison of obesity, is it the prison of ignorance, is the prison of abuse?

LONNIE: So there is different ways of visiting prisoners?

DON: Even the neighbor who lives next door to you, who you have never talked to.

LONNIE: Tell us a little bit about this program “The Paper Sunshine” which helps people replace their sinful hearts with clean ones for the Lord.

DON: Yvonne, met a guy at San Quentin that hadn’t had a visit or a letter for over 17 years, and she promised him a letter and we found 2 people who were willing to start writing him, and within a few days everyone there wanted someone to write to them. We have just had our 275000 inmate COMPLETE Bible studies through “The Paper Sunshine”. When we enroll somebody in “The Paper Sunshine” we also enroll them in the Voice of Prophecy Bible Studies. And the Voice of Prophecy; I don’t know if you know this, if they get an inmate enrolled in our Bible study, they get enrolled in our “Pen Friend” program and that’s why this marriage works so good. Now, if you notice that I said 275000 have completed Bible studies, how many have completed it and never sent the test in?

LONNIE: Well, tell us a little bit about this pen friend program before we have to wrap it up. If a person wants to get involved, how much can they protect their safety, people may want to know?

DON: You write through us. You never give out your home address, I mean; we’ve got children writing letters to child molesters leading them to Christ. All the mail is through a post office box in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

LONNIE: So they write a letter to a prisoner, but it goes to you. You’re the clearing house, and then you send it on to the prisoner, and then when the inmate writes back we read and critique their letters, and we try to take out anything that would be overly vulgar or offensive. We have never had a problem, we have never had anybody hurt, and we have had thousands and thousands of inmates leaving prison and instead of looking for a shootout, they’re looking for a church.

LONNIE: So it’s making a great difference. Tell us about someone who has had a turnabout in their hearts because of this program.

DON: I got a letter from this guy on Death Row about 10 years ago and he said, Don and Yvonne, you’re not going to remember me, and I didn’t, because this is a thing of unanimity, but thanks to your pen friend program, you did everything wrong that ended up right. You matched me up with an 8th grade class on the East coast, and a grandma on the West coast, not what I was looking for. But collectively they led me to my new friend Jesus, Don, I got my first ever Christmas cards, and my first Birthday card and I’m writing to tell you about a letter that I received today, it’s from the governor of Louisiana with my signed death warrant, and yes I’m on death row, and I am going to die, but thanks to a group of 8th grade kids, a grandma, and Someone Cares Ministry, the next that I’ll see is Jesus.

LONNIE: Amen! Across the miles, from many faces to many places, Someone Cares Prison Ministry, thank you Don McClure.

CONNIE: Again, a big thank you to Don McClure. You know, we like to make him break a sweat answering the calls from our Voice of Prophecy supporters and friends this week. If you’d like to help Don and Yvonne in any way, especially as a letter writer in their entirely safe and secure “Paper Sunshine Project”, than give Don a call at (260) 492-7770.