Phil,
I am really sorry to hear about Christopher.  I will be praying for all of
them.
Huggs and blessings and thanks for doing the Lords work.
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:36 AM
Subject: Pray For Christopher


> Christopher is a 35 year old man who comes to our Friday and Sunday
> meetings.  I have prayed with him once.  He is a former addict but he has
> done time in the passed for drugs.  He is on probation.  Today he had a
> court hearing when he learned, because he had not been compliant, that is,
> he had not attended all his drug and alcohol classes, that they were
> sending
> him back for another six months in prison.  Fortunately, it isn't the big
> house, that is, the Colorado state pen but it will be a minimum security
> facility.  He will be allow to go off campus to work and it is more like
> apartment living, or dormitory, than in the penitentiary.  Gretchen went
> to
> see him tonight because he will spend a few days in a local county jail
> before being transferred.  He told Gretchen to tell all of us at church
> that
> he was sorry he let us all down.  I'm going to try and see him Saturday.
> Anyhow, Christopher is trying to go straight but he has lived half his
> life
> on and off drugs.  He is a good guy and I personally don't think he meant
> for this to happen, but, when the judge tells you, and your parole officer
> tells you, here are your classes and you must attend, and you don't get to
> them all, the courts get tired of seeing you and screwing around with your
> excuses.  So, when you think of him, pray for him because he is getting
> way
> too old to keep this up.  We will be able to spend time on the phone with
> him, too, when he is transferred to the minimum security facility.  He
> will
> now spend Christmas, New Years, and his 36th birthday in jail.  Like I
> said
> once before, I never thought I would be pastoring junkies but there are
> four
> of them in our group.  One is my friend Keith and he has been clean for
> over
> 25 years and he was never arrested but he committed a lot of crime before
> he
> got saved.  Troy, whom you've heard me talk about, hasn't been coming to
> our
> meetings for several months but we see him from time to time.  He is back
> to
> drinking and drugging so he feels ashamed to come and meet with us but we
> keep trying to work on him because he did 8 years of hard time for beating
> people up years ago and if he is not careful, he'll end up in the slammer
> again so pray for Troy, too.
>
> Phil.
>
>
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