Newsletter

I’ll start with an apology for my taking so long to report our progress with Bibles 4 Change. No excuses, but we’ve been really overwhelmed with all of the work involved with the Seminary program, Paid in Full California. It’s hard to believe, but our freshman class is about to finish it’s first year! We’re actually in the process of vetting our second cohort which will start classes in late August. God’s blessings on this work are nothing short of amazing. We’ve revamped our website, so for more information about PIFC, please visit our website:

www.paidinfullcalifornia.org

One of the other off-shoots of the Seminary program involves the Spanish congregation at Mule Creek. On both the D and E yards, they were relegated to small conference rooms to conduct their Sunday worship services. They would each have 12 to 15 guys in them each Sunday with no room for growth because the crowding was uncomfortable. Our Seminary Professor/Facilitator, Juan Gonzales, was approached by the Spanish students about this so we went to the CRM at the prison and negotiated the use of the full chapel on the E yard for 2 hours on Friday nights. After about 6 weeks, the congregation now has around 65 guys in eager attendance, every week! The services are lively and all in untranslated Spanish but you can sure feel the presence of the Lord, even if you don’t understand what is being said! God has worked miracles in this and many souls have come to Christ as a result!

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I’ve talked, over the years, about the program we developed call “Christian Anger Management Project “(CAMP). It’s a 30 week course based upon what God’s word says about anger. We just graduated our 6th class in Folsom Prison and are in the late stages of our 3rd class at Mule Creek. There are still several sessions being conducted in prisons in the Houston, Texas area. God has truly blessed this work and its growing popularity and implementation shows this.

God’s grace on the CAMP program further manifests itself on the latest development. The publisher of our workbook “The Anger Workbook” by Drs. Les Carter and the late Frank Minirth, was unwilling to translate this book into Spanish. They just didn’t see a strong enough demand for it. They did agree, however, to license us to do it for a very modest loyalty fee. Our daughter, Kendra Morales, one of our B4C board members, took on the project and got it done! We made a spiral-bound copy of the book and I took it into Mule Creek and had a couple of our Spanish Seminary students edit it. Remarkably, they made very few changes to the translated copy. Once again, God’s hand was and is all over this. Our final stage, was to produce 5 copies of the book and send it to the publisher, HarperCollins, for final review. This was done about a week ago, so we’re just waiting for them to finish.

Back several years ago, at the onset of the CAMP curriculum, we developed a Facilitator’s binder to guide people as to how our classes should be conducted and how the 30-week timeline should be met. We’ve also translated that binder into Spanish, into the spiral-bound format. We are expecting to begin our first Spanish CAMP class to start sometime in June. It will be led by 2 of our Seminary students as a part of their practicum requirements for their degree program. 

It has truly been a blessing for me and the rest of our leadership team to watch God work in this environment. One of the main principles driving the ministry of Paid in Full California is that we’re all about changing the moral culture in this and other prisons in California. With a focus on God and furthering His kingdom, the change has become evident every day. Our faith in this program is tested continually with the finances involved. The numbers are pretty staggering but we know that God did not bring us this far to wash us out!!

God bless you all for your continued, prayerful support.

Bob Morris

God Bless - Bob