New attendees at “Life Impact” meetings give public testimony to positive changes!

At the request of some of our recent additions to our prison rehabilitation groups, we are sharing their pictures and heartfelt reactions. Kamil: “Thanks to meeting with you my faith is being restored and I have lot of energy. I am becoming aware of things that I didn’t see before. I feel inner strength that I’ve never known. This is something new, because earlier my faith was very weak. Now I know that faith helps. I appreciate that there are people who come to show me the road to God.” Andrzej: “I have been attending the meetings for two months, and I see that they are all based on the New Testament. Since I started attending, I feel spiritually calm, full of fresh information and feelings. This is for me something new and I feel good with it. When I am trying to act according the teachings of Jesus, I feel that I can become a better man. I’m more aware of my mistakes and I try to avoid them.” Roland: “I have always been looking for God. That’s why I come to the meetings. Each one brings something new. They are not at all monotonous. Afterward I feel much more calm and peaceful. What you do here is a wonderful thing.” Łukasz: “I like the meetings a lot. Much is clarified about God, and I also like the friendly atmosphere of the meetings.” Mirek: “During the meetings I feel like I’m accumulating strength for the time when I leave prison. God gives me conviction that I can live a decent life and look at other people in a different way.”

Following is a recent extract from our prison mail bag:         

“Regarding myself and my attitude towards faith, I now want to have God’s presence in my heart. Thanks to you I have met believers whose faith has changed their lives for the better. This strengthens me to be convinced that I too can change for the better, and that God has a plan for me. I’ve failed people in the past and done much evil, hurting both strangers and people close to me. In spite of the fact that I was raised in faith, when I grew up I took the fate of my life into my own hands and turned away from God. I started to blame him for all of my troubles, until I began to entirely doubt his existence… I hunted for money at any price, because to me it was the only meaning of life. This resulted in my losing everyone who was close to me, as well as many years of freedom. Even then I blamed others and God. I now know that my understanding of God was wrong. I know that I must open my heart to him. Nowadays I am trying to do this through prayer - talking with my Creator, which helps me change my behavior. I know that declaring my failures and mistakes in this place is seen as a sign of weakness. But I have started to do this, and I’m trying to take the comments of others with humility. The world is the way it is, and I can’t change it. I must change myself and I strongly believe that with God’s help I will make it.  Stefan”