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     Every month FaithWriters – The Home For Christian Writers sponsors a blog contest that promotes a ministry that helps in the natural and brings the gospel. This contest includes cash prizes for the winners or Paid Writing Assignments. First place is also posted on 100 Christian Blogs. Novembers contest promoted Angel Tree and Prison Fellowship Ministries. Here is the winner selected by that ministry.

Bound on Earth, Bound to Heaven by Haydee I.

      I was awakened by the tumultuous voice of my brother one Monday morning when he said that our dad was arrested by the police. He did not kill anybody nor committed any criminal offense. It was the ongoing business cases filed against his company.
      For the next days and weeks, I caught myself crying and wallowing in a sea of misery and depression. No amount of prayer and counsel took away the pain in my heart. I felt confused, afraid, crushed, abandoned, and unprotected. I could not imagine how Papa can survive standing in the city jail for many weeks and crushed by the bodies of fellow prisoners. He could not even go to the restroom when he needs to and change his sweat-soaked shirt.
      Prior to that, my dad used to take me to the National Penitentiary for many years. We signed a waiver before entering the Maximum Security Compound just in case something happens. One full day for every week, our prison ministry team visited and ministered to them.
      My friends said I am crazy going there with no assurance of protection whatsoever once someone throws a fit or our lives become endangered because of the environment. Perhaps.
       I will never forget the day my dad asked me to preach about God's goodness to them. I saw the tears in their eyes and the pain in their faces. I had no power to do something concrete like getting them out of jail but by just being there to listen to them, pray for them, feed them, clothe them, throw them Christmas parties, give them hope and share Jesus to them makes all the difference.
      James 1:27 echoes this: "Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
I saw many wives, children, and relatives visiting their incarcerated husbands, fathers and loved ones. They had the same facial expressions and the same story of loss, lack, and fatherlessness.
      The same story unfolds for every country, race or generation where a father or mother was sentenced to jail. Indefinite separation from parents sets the stage for them to lack
guidance and parenting thereby making them prone to a host of emotional trauma, abuse, rejection, and neglect. Couple these with the propensity to engage in illegal activities and addictions to drugs, pornography, sex, gambling, among others.
      But, there's good news. After serving time in prison, President Richard Nixon's "hatchet man" Charles Colson was empowered and anointed by God to impact the lives of prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families through the establishment of
Prison Fellowship in 1976. This non-profit ministry aims for the redemption, reconciliation, and restoration of prisoners and their families through the love, power and gospel of Jesus Christ.
      Eventually in 1982, ex-bank robber and prisoner Mary Kay Beard founded Angel Tree in Birmingham, Alabama to help Prison Fellowship prisoners connect with their families especially children during Christmas. The idea is to allow a sponsor to give a Christmas gift to a child under the name of his own incarcerated parent. In its first year, 556 children were given and to date about 9 million children and 5.2 million inmate parents were ministered to.

~ There are now
1.7 million children who have one or both parents in prison.
~ You can change lives and make a difference right NOW.
~ Click
Angel Tree to know more details and how you and your church can partner with them.
~ Imagine what your Christmas gift and prayer can do to one of these kids.

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Christian Review - Knighthood For The Elite by Christian author Brian D. Starr

Title: Knighthood For The Elite
By: Brian D. Starr
ISBN-13: 978-1479103264
ISBN-10: 1479103292
Review Date: December 5, 2012
Reviewed by CBM Christian Book Reviews
10.0 stars on a scale of 10.0 stars

In his new book release Knighthood For The Elite, Christian author Brian D. Starr, delves into the subject of Knighthood, revealing secrets of the Christian/Judea religion that are not readily visible, nor easily understood, to the average Christian that does not have knowledge of the genealogy and knighthood of past Saints and historical figures. 

With diligent and extensive research, and the inclusion of intricate ancestral lineage charts, the author unveils the challenge of the Knighthood, it's meaning, ancestral lineage and individuals that have taken part in this most honorable endeavor.  This work also encompasses a grand scale of Saints to include, the mother of Jesus, as well research as to a large volume of Saints, apostles and participants in the cannons of the Bible, not to mention their descendants.  Part of this compilation is a comprehensive discussion of the nine most worthy warriors of times past from three different eras (three from each): the Christian era, the Hebrew (Biblical) era and Roman, Greek and Macedonian eras.

The author has painstakingly and craftfully compiled this work, encompassing the following chapters: The Priest, The Five Generation Genesis of God, (the Davidic, Aaronic Levitical, the Gamalas and Arimathea); The Time of the Crucifixion and the Era of Christianity; the High Priest of Israel and the Houses of Eleazar, Elizabeth, Don Verch Mathonry, James, Joseph, Alphaeus and Thomas. 

This work involves extensive research and is a valuable resource to anyone who desires to unlock the secrets of the Christian/Judea religion, understanding the role and importance of research in genealogy, knighthood and sainthood.  These roles and recordings of certain historical figures interplay together in our world, in religion and in history.  This is a well-written and informative book and one that is unique in genre and presentation.  

For more information about author Brian Starr, Knighthood For The Elite and many other books published by Brian visit Brian D. Starr

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