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Dear Brothers in Christ,
Please pray for our family:
1. For my mother (Mrs. Zela Mariam Danny) – she is paralyzed
2. For my sister’s mother-in-law (Mrs. Daisy Deen) – she got cancer
3. For me (Daniel Glance Danny) and my wife (Roselin Daniel Danny) - we are seeking a child.
4. For my family (Danny) to grow Physically, Mentally & Spiritually in Christianity.
Thank you
Daniel Glance Danny
H-20 Aadharshila
Bhopal-462021
India
I was rededicated to the Lord three weeks ago. I had to quit a job because for ten months I was not allowed to take Sunday off to go to church (my supervisor was asked directly to let me off on Sundays back in August). I've been working everyday and sixty hours a week. It ended because I was falsely accused and another employee verbally and physically assaulted me. This issue has prevented me from receiving unemployment benefits and the Department of Human Services is attempting to get me down because of the false accusation. I am in need of financial assistance in order to stay in my "Lease to Own" home and car to search for a job. My father is recuperating from prostate surgery and is a retired veteran. He and mother have given all they can to help me at this time and so has my congregation. I am also trying to get an attorney to help with the issue to clear my Christian name. Please help me in any way you can and pray for me. God Bless You, my soul needs your support now more than ever. Thank you, Debra Tidmore
I'm Carl Michael S.Suarez of San Juan City,Metro Manila I'm a graduate of Philippine Bible College just this year Apr.4,2008.But I want to continue my secular studies so that when I graduate I could support myself while working doing the work of the ministry.but unfortunately I couldn't do it because of financial constraint approximately 25,000 pesos is needed to accomplish my goal every month for the tuition& other miscelaneous fees and also including my transportation fare going home.that is equivalent to 600 dollars.hope you pray about it that God Might touch a Good heart.Thank You and God bless!!!
I'm Carl Michael S.Suarez of San Juan City,Metro Manila I'm a graduate of Philippine Bible College just this year Apr.4,2008. But I want to continue my secular studies so that when I graduate I could support myself while working doing the work of the ministry.but unfortunately I couldn't do it because of financial constraint approximately 25,000 pesos is needed to accomplish my goal every month for the tuition& other miscelaneous fees and also including my transportation fare going home.that is equivalent to 600 dollars.hope you pray about it that God Might touch a Good heart.Thank You and God bless!!!
My name is Wilton Carraway Jr. and I don’t know where to begin. I am a 36-year-old student studying to become a minister through the Sunset International Bible Institute satellite program at the Gem Street church of Christ in New Haven, CT. I am studying under the proctorship of Minister Hi Jackson. I currently hold an A average in Biblical Studies and if it is God’s will, I plan on serving Him and the community, as a minister in a professional capacity. I am writing to you all in a plea for help because of a legal situation I have placed myself in.
I was involved in a physical altercation in Southington, CT where I was trying to protect and rescue a girlfriend I had been living with for three years in our home in Meriden, CT. I am currently charged with Assault. We had been dating for eight years previous to this incident. At the time I was not a Christian even though I had attended the Ward Street Church of Christ in Wallingford, CT all my adolescent life. I grew up in a Christian household and my mother; Maggie McQuillar has been a member of the church for over 40 years. As an adult I fell away from my foundation and succumbed to the world and worldly living. I blamed my falling away on the way these so called Christians behaved outside of church and the way they viewed the world through racial eyes. Today as a congregation we have built a diverse and unified body that I am blessed to be a part of. I take full responsibility for my actions today and my actions of my youth and realize that my faith is my faith. I now realize that the Lord seeks an independent and personal relationship with me outside of others thoughts and actions. It is my life He wants to mold and transform in order that I preach the truth, that is Jesus Christ gospel.
In September of 2006 trying to be “Mr. Fix it” I found myself in prison angry, alone, confused and sorrowful. Thinking of all the wrongs in my life and how life wasn’t fair. As I looked out into the rain and tears streamed down my face I began to pray and the rained stopped. The clouds separated and the sun shinned down upon my face with such warmth and comfort, easing and removing all my fears and the discouraging thoughts I was having. As I closed my eyes and sobbed past memories flooded my mind.
I remembered the days of my youth growing up in the Chamberlain Heights Housing Project where I would play a game of hide and seek with God. I would hide in closets, under the kitchen table, in the woods and whenever the sun would shine on my tiny little face I knew it was God saying I see you. We played this game throughout the day. It would finally end after mom and I prayed and she would shut the light off because it was bedtime but I would be ready to play again tomorrow.
I felt his embrace encompass me as He had when I was four years old and standing in the pasture outside the church building. There in that luscious green pasture with the smell of wildflowers, the sound of bumble bees buzzing and basking in the warmth of the sun, God would pick me up and play airplane with me. Just as in the days of my youth, God was still watching and ready to play with me but was I ready for Him. In the warmth of the sun I could hear Him say, “I never left you it was you who left me.” The words cut my heart today just as intensely as they did that very second in that dark, cold, damp and musty jail cell, where I stood. I stood there not by myself, not alone as I had thought but then I truly realized God hadn’t left me. I had left God but He was willing to meet me in a jail cell and tell me how He still loved me and that I could come home.
Right there and then I made a decision and the first thing was I realized I had one of two choices to make. Recapture those warm feelings of Gods love and protection or remain in my pity party thinking the world was cruel and unfair. Was I going to take responsibility of my life and start to make better choices? Or was I going to continue to play the victim and say how the world was so unfair and remain in the darkness blaming others for the wrongs in my life?
I looked into that bright sun and my heart was scorched by the words and the voice that sang softly and sweetly in my ear. “I have called you by name, you are mine.” I realized the Lord was meeting me and this was the road where He was waiting. “Come home” the voice, repeated, “come home” and the clouds covered the sky but the sunlight continued to shine so vividly on my face, as if it were only shining into my cell directly. The Lord was reaching out and healing me the only way I would know, it was truly He. I melted back into that small child in the pasture next to the church building. No longer was I inside a jail cell, I was in the bosom of the Father and Father God would carry me back home. Thank you Jesus.
One evening from prison I called my mothers home on a Monday to speak with her and she said they were having a Bible study. She asked me if I wanted to speak to Minister Arthur “Bud” Fenner? I said yes because I had so many questions that the men in prison were asking me during Bible study but I could not answer because I didn’t know the proper answer. We discussed several issues and I gained more clarity about the scriptures. One question I had for minister Fenner was concerning Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
In order for me to walk with God I must agree with Christ and become His disciple obeying Him in all things. The events that took place in my life were Gods decision to allow me to experience because He knew He would give me the courage to tell my story and help save a child. I am asking for your prayers first but I am also asking that if there are any who can bless me monetarily, they find the compassion in the hearts to pledge money for my defense fund. God has given me the courage to be able to send a letter across the country to ask for help from my sisters and brothers because I believe they will respond with love and affection; not worrying about my past but knowing “Therefore, if any is in Christ he is a new creation the old has gone, the new has come!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 As Jeremiah was told in chapter 1 verse 9, so I believe that, God placed the words that are in my mouth there for me to speak. This is courage that comes from my belief and conviction that the Lord has called me to do His will. I, Wilton Carraway Jr. believe in every word that Jesus spoke and that the Holy Spirit inspired man to write.
While incarcerated I asked God to take a chance on me, and the world would hear the story about how He has changed my life. So as I committed my life and my story to give God the glory, I ask for your help to allow our story to be told. I am asking for your prayers first but I am also asking that if there are any who can bless me monetarily, they find the compassion in the hearts to pledge money for my defense fund. God doesn’t take chances. He ordains! Thank you for taking the time to read this and for your prayers.
Wilton Carraway Jr.
Send donations to: Tom Holmes
107 Somer Drive
Meriden, Ct 06451
Memo: Wilton’s Defense Fund
Wilton Carraway Jr.
70 N. Spring St.
Meriden, CT 06451
203-379-6095
• Baptized on December 12, 2006 Ward Street Church of Christ, Wallingford, CT and placed membership immediately thereafter
• Administered teen devotional at East Side Pizza, Wallingford, CT “Courage of Daniel” -12/2006
• Attended weekly formal spiritual education and counseling with Minister Arthur Fenner - 12/06-09/07 Ward Street Church of Christ
o Completed correspondence courses What the Bible Really Teaches, and Back to the Bible both with an A+ Final Grade
• Preached at Ward Street Church of Christ
• Graduated from Drug and Alcohol Awareness and Treatment Program- Rushford Medical Center Meriden Medical Center- 03/07 Meriden, CT
• Joined Narcotic Anonymous “Genesis Group” New Britain, CT -12/06-present
o 18 months of sobriety celebrated March 21, 2008
• Accepted into Sunset International Bible Institute Lubbock, Texas 03/07
• Enrolled in Sunset International Bible Institute satellite location: New Haven Church of Christ under the proctorship of Minister Hi Jackson, New Haven, CT
o Maintaining a 96% average in Biblical Studies applied towards Bachelors in Science: Pulpit and Youth Ministries
• Participated extensively in global Youth Ministries:
o Accompanied 60 teens on a mission trip to Mexico, April 2007
o Chaperoned Churches of Christ youth rallies in:
• Albany, New York
• Manchester, CT - guest speaker
• Manchester, New Hampshire – lead chaperone
• Windsor, CT
o Lectured to youth from Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Cape Code, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Long Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, West Virginia, and Chicago, Illinois. Sharing the importance of making right choices that affect not only life here on earth but the eternal choice. Relating to my life as a “Prodigal Son.”
o Volunteered at Tidal River Christian Camp (TRCC) 2007: cook & counselor nicknamed “Kool Aid” for sweetening everyone’s drink and day
o Serving currently on the Board of Curriculum for TRCC 2008
o Upcoming Guest Speaker at Church of Christ Youth Rally Chelmsford, Massachusetts April 25-27 2008
• Sustaining a self-directed program of community services
• Volunteering Work at the YMCA, Meriden, CT
• Attending Anger Management and Behavioral Therapy under the care of Thomas Thurber LCWS, PhD. (02/08-present)
• Activated Prison Ministry which involves my organizing of their biblical study correspondence courses in conjunction with regular spiritual support. The roster includes forty inmates in:
o Connecticut
o Massachusetts
o Pennsylvania
o Oklahoma
o Texas
o Thailand
o Trinidad
• Collaborating with Ryan Lloyd of Manchester, New Hampshire to research and develop a prison curriculum based on Prison Ministry used in Arkansas Correctional Facilities – present
• Working with City of Meriden Department of Human Services Division of Youth Services Manager, Denise Keating to launch the Dare to Be a Daniel program. This teaches youth ages 9-18 the importance of sharing your faith, mentoring, and communication between youth and school administrators (BGEA Ministries)
• Involved presently in a psychological research study of the effects of prison life and trauma associated with an ex-offender. Study currently being done by Katie Forrester, Graduate Student, Quinnipiac College, Fairfield, CT
• Fulltime employment AGC Inc, South Meriden, CT 08/07-3/08
I have achieved this list of goals only through the help of my Lord Jesus Christ. I have set in place a recovery program that will help me succeed in obtaining future goals. Since becoming a Christian there is a power within me that drives me to be goal oriented and to have a belief in myself to obtain the impossible. I have surrounded myself with a loving and caring support system that is there for me in my times of trials and when I fall short. I have the desire to preach the Gospel fulltime for the rest of my days on earth, if it is the Lord’s will. I have accomplished all this because the Lord has blessed me and He is working the miracle that is in me. I boast not of my own deeds but acknowledge it is the Lord working within.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/wilton/
March 5, 2008
To whom it May Concern,
My name is Arthur Fenner. I serve as minister for the Ward Street Church of Christ in Wallingford, Ct. I have known Wilton Carraway Jr. for almost two years now and I am writing you to testify to his character and changed life because of Christ. When I first met Wilton for counseling, he was a man full of remorse for actions he had done and come seeking answers and spiritual counseling. Wilton was not attending too long before he made the decision to become a Christian. He came repenting of his sine with a sincere desire to correct the wrongs he had done and followed through with hard work and extreme changes that could only come with the help of Jesus Christ.
Since that time I have been very impressed with Wilton’s focus on helping others in similar circumstances. He urged the church to begin a Prison Ministry and so we began a letter writing campaign and sent Bible lessons to inmates. There are currently 40 prisoners on our mailing list!
Wilton has also had a concern for young people. He was worried that teenagers might find themselves in trouble if they did not have a focus on meeting their own responsibilities and learn to make right decisions. Therefore, Wilton has volunteered hours to helping our youth leader as a chaperone and youth counselor at many youth group functions.
For a while Wilton found it difficult finding a job after his arrest. Yet he was persistent even when he knew hat being honest about his record might keep him from getting employment. Wilton found a steady job and works hard to provide for himself and his family.
Wilton has been a big blessing for our congregation. He is always there at almost all functions and has contributed as much as he can in serving others. He has even started taking courses in ministry and has the opportunity to serve the church in a professional capacity as a youth minister at the New Haven Church of Christ.
I can’t begin to tell you how proud I am of Wilton and his progress. I have been a minister for over ten years and rarely do I see the kind of immediate and long-term change that I see in the man.
I wish that he would not even need to have the anxiety he has now over his circumstances, but he understands and is willing to do what is needed to make it right. I ask that if it be possible that the court please show leniency in his case and consider the efforts Wilton has mad to be a productive member of our community.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Arthur “Bud” Fenner
Minister, Ward Street Church of Christ
Office (203) 265-2787
You may direct your comments to: garcia@church-of-christ.org
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