{"id":828,"date":"2012-09-28T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/clauson\/?p=828"},"modified":"2012-10-01T12:14:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T17:14:50","slug":"god-brings-hope-in-a-visit-to-a-oaxacan-prision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/clauson\/2012\/09\/28\/god-brings-hope-in-a-visit-to-a-oaxacan-prision\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnessing God&#8217;s mercy in a Mexican prision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago, I had the opportunity to travel to the Isthmus in the state of Oaxaca with two missionary colleagues, Dr. Cindy Hoover and Jo Ellen Reaves.\u00a0 It was a joy to see how God is at work in the Covenant church and Semillas de Salud (Seeds of Health), a Covenant non-profit health ministry headed up by Cindy. \u00a0(Nils shared about his trip to the Isthmus with Semillas de Salud <a title=\"The Isthmus\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/clauson\/2011\/11\/15\/the-isthmus\/\">here<\/a> in his blog entry last November.)<\/p>\n<p>While there we shared many meals with the three local leaders with whom Cindy has been working and training as well as visited a few sites where Semillas has done health screening, including churches, schools and the local prison.\u00a0 Of all the visits and conversations, the time we spent at the prison has caused me to pause and reflect the most on God\u2019s work in this world.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit I was a little nervous entering the prison, the living conditions seemed so depressing.\u00a0 I remember praying over and over while we were there, Lord, please just open my eyes to see you here.\u00a0 We were led into the dining area near the chapel.\u00a0 Besides the structure of the buildings looking almost inhabitable, there were flies and mosquitos everywhere and the food looked like it had little flavor and few vitamins.<\/p>\n<p>When we first arrived, I wondered why I had come.\u00a0 Dr. Cindy and the Semillas team were busy checking prisoners\u2019 hemoglobin, while I &#8212; who gets queazy from just watching the finger pricks &#8212; sat in the entrance to the chapel watching people. \u00a0I feel one of my gifts is listening to and encouraging others, but honestly, I had no idea how to start up a conversation.\u00a0 Even a simple question like, \u00bfcomo est\u00e1s? (how are you?) seemed laughable. \u00a0What I really wanted to ask was, \u201cWhat are you in here for?\u201d but of course, I had no right to ask, and that would not help open a door for forming a relationship of respect.\u00a0 So, I sat there and talked to God in my head, throwing out lots of questions, like:\u00a0 Lord, how is it that you allow people to live in such misery?\u00a0 Where are you, God?\u00a0 Is there any hope for these people?\u00a0 Is there hope for the many kids I saw running around, presumably visiting their parents &#8212; later I found out that some were born in the prison and lived there permanently with their mother.<\/p>\n<p>As I sat there and offered weak smiles to those who were entering the chapel to pray, I wondered about what life has been like for them, both before entering prison and now in the prison.\u00a0 And I continued to pray, Lord, help me see you, somehow, in all of this.<\/p>\n<p>Now as I reflect on what happened that morning, even though I didn\u2019t realize it at the time, God answered my prayer by sending a middle aged man to talk with me.\u00a0 He started out by asking me some questions, listening to <em>me<\/em>, and offering the usual praise I get for being a missionary (which I have to say always makes me uncomfortable since I am a sinner saved by grace, like any other Christian).\u00a0 But, he seemed sincere in his praise and was probably trying to encourage me.<\/p>\n<p>He then started to tell me about how good God has been to him (really? but do you see where you are? I thought), and how he loved sharing with other prisoners about God\u2019s mercy and grace.\u00a0 He shared about his faith in a simple, but insightful and reflective way that I admired, and I enjoyed listening to him.\u00a0 At the same time, I felt a nudge by the Spirit to ask about his family, and he opened up a little bit, basically saying they were OK, even though he was in prison, because God was providing for them.<\/p>\n<p>After we had been talking for about 20 minutes, he told me why he was there &#8211; a year ago he had wrongfully been accused of rape.\u00a0 This was very difficult for me to hear and instantly changed my view of him.\u00a0 Up until this point he had seemed quite humble and full of the Holy Spirit, but as you know, a big part of my ministry is working on preventing and healing from abusive relationships, and I immediately thought of the victim and her pain.\u00a0 I tried so hard not to judge this man, but \u201cwrongfully accused\u201d, really? \u00a0My internal response was like that of Red in <em>Shawshank Redemption <\/em>who sarcastically welcomes Andy saying &#8220;You&#8217;re gonna fit right in. \u00a0Everyone here is innocent, you know that?&#8221; \u00a0Of course this man would claim to be wrongfully accused, isn&#8217;t that what everyone in prison says? \u00a0On the other hand, I am aware of the\u00a0brokenness\u00a0of the Mexican justice system and that there are in fact many people who are imprisoned without due process. \u00a0(<a title=\"Presumed Guilty on NPR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128800611\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to one example here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_835\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-835\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/the-shawshank-redemption_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-835\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/the-shawshank-redemption_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/clauson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/the-shawshank-redemption_1.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/clauson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/the-shawshank-redemption_1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/clauson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/09\/the-shawshank-redemption_1-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Everyone in here is innocent, you know that?&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we continued talking, however, I saw that it was not my place to determine this man&#8217;s guilt or innocence. \u00a0Furthermore, God used this conversation to show me the wideness of His mercy and just how big His Kingdom is. \u00a0 Let me explain&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After telling me he was innocent of the crime, he admitted that he could understand why those who had accused him thought it was him.\u00a0 He confessed to me that he had in fact been a rapist and everyone knew it.\u00a0 Before he came to Christ 12 years ago, he tells me, he was a very bad man.\u00a0 He lived a life full of sin, a life of drug trafficking, neglecting and abusing his family, a love of money, guns and danger.\u00a0 He told me how one night he came home to his 8 year old son with a gun in one hand and a butt-load of cash in the other, besides some drugs hidden on him.\u00a0 His boy wanted to greet him, but he just told him to go away and leave him alone.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the big confession.\u00a0 No, he said, he wasn\u2019t guilty of the\u00a0particular\u00a0charge of rape for which he was imprisoned. \u00a0He did,\u00a0however, \u00a0confess he was guilty of raping 70 other women! \u00a0After hearing that number, I was pretty much in shock, I could not focus on whatever else he was saying.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t believe I was sitting right next to a man who had violated so many women, taken aggressively what was not his, caused deep pain to innocent people.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of my shock, God opened my ears to hear something important that He wanted me to hear. \u00a0One night he lay in bed with his wife and watched her sleep peacefully, and he realized that he was a slave to sin and he couldn\u2019t break free. \u00a0He wanted that peace, and he asked God to help him.\u00a0 That was the start of his conversion, his salvation, his life transformation.<\/p>\n<p>But, really, God is it possible?\u00a0 Is this unbelievable life transformation really possible?\u00a0 And, even if he really has changed, what about all those people he so deeply hurt?\u00a0 His wife and kids?\u00a0 The 70 women?<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that since coming to Christ, he has shared his testimony with everyone he knows, his neighbors, his family, and he gives all the credit to God for saving him.\u00a0 He admitted that he was never caught for the sins he committed before coming to Christ, but now even though he was paying for something he never did, he was willing to pay.\u00a0 He trusted God had a purpose in it all, and that he\u2019d rather be in prison and free in Christ, free from bitterness, hatred, seeking revenge and violence, because he had found a calm, quiet trust in a God who forgives all those who truly repent, no matter how big or how many the sins.<\/p>\n<p>The next day I was to preach a sermon based on the Samaritan woman\u2019s encounter with Christ at the Ixtapec Covenant Church entitled:\u00a0 The Good News: Freedom in Christ! \u00a0My focus was on how Jesus freed the Samaritan woman from living as a victim of abuse to becoming an evangelist of Christ.\u00a0 The evidence of this amazing transformation is that this woman returns to her community, which included the same men who used her and tossed her aside and the women who harshly judged her, to 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