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Now is not the time to be silent.

In order to restore intergrity and effectiveness to public office, we must ourselves get involved. The political landscape must not be left to those who would serve as weeds among the harvest.

Frederick Douglass, Republican and minister who served under four U.S. Presidents said:
“I have one great political idea….That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, ‘Righteousness exalteth a nation; sin is a reproach to any people” [Proverbs 14:34]. This constitutes my politics the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics….I feel it my duty to all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people.”

Good News Jail & Prison Ministry – Golf Fundraiser – Please Support Tommy Davis –

One of the organizations we here at the Frederick Douglass Foundation believe in and support is this jail ministry and Chaplain Tommy Davis. Please consider supporting the great work of this ministry.

Good News Jail & Prison Ministry has been providing spiritually mature, equipped men and
women to serve as Christian chaplains and volunteers in our local jails since 1961. We have over 200 full time Chaplains with Good News Jail & Prison Ministry who are supported fully by Christians.

Every year, individuals, churches, and businesses in our community partner to raise the funds necessary to support this life changing ministry. We receive no tax dollars. Along with hundreds of volunteers we minister to thousands of inmates daily in jails around the country. It is a very active ministry and results in hundreds of inmates coming to Christ every year.

Only God knows how our community will be impacted when an incarcerated father, mother, brother, sister, son or daughter returns to society as a new creation in Christ, with the hope, peace and joy He alone can provide! I remember when I was an inmate. I was thankful that a chaplain led me to Christ. My personal experience is why
this ministry is so important to me.

I am writing to you in the hope that you will join me in supporting me in this worthy cause. On September 6, 2011, our local ministry will host a Good News Golf Event to help raise funds for this life changing ministry. I am golfing and
would ask you to join me as a supporting sponsor! Contributions are tax deductible and you will receive a receipt for your generous donation. Please send your contributions to:

Good News Jail & Prison Ministry Attn: (Sponsor Tommy/Golf)
130 S. Plymouth Avenue
Rochester, NY 14614

With your support, the chaplain’s fine work in our community will continue. Your generosity and care for lost and hurting people motivates, and challenges our Chaplains in our local correctional institutions. You may never fully
understand what a blessing you are to so many people, just like the chaplain who led me to Christ never thought I would eventually become one! I personally thank you for your contribution.

Respectfully Yours,
Chaplain Tommy Davis
Email: tommy.davis@goodnewsjail.org

Support Good news Jail Ministry

PRISONERS NEED REGENERATION

by Providence Crowder

Have You Considered Jail Ministry?

Many have argued that some prisoners are not deserving of the very compassion that they refused to exhibit to their helpless victims. These, they say, have offended society in horrific and terrifying ways and are beyond the realm of consideration. I say, who are we to oppose God? Was it not Saul of Taurus who was converted and received the gospel amidst “breathing out murderous threats” (Acts 9:1) against Christians and consenting to their deaths and imprisonment? Saul, also named Paul, said after his conversion, “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief” (1 Tim. 1:15).

Prisoners need regeneration not merely rehabilitation. No amount of jails, prisons, programs, or secular justice can do what Jesus can do, which is renew hearts and minds and eternally transform lives. I have served in the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Jail Bureau as a Deputy Sheriff for nearly twelve years, and I have seen nothing give more hope to the hopeless than the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The jails are filled with those needing and seeking answers for their failures and shortcomings in life.  Chaplains and Christian volunteers are invaluable in offering answers to both the inmates and the jail officers for life’s tough questions. They offer no excuse for sin, but in love, they share the gospel to every soul, just as God commanded.

I consider myself and other Christian deputies’ as partners with the chaplains and churches that frequent our jails. We are all seeking to fulfill our purposes in Christ by being salt and light in the darkest of places.  Ministering behind the jail walls has been inexplicably rewarding. Though I have been cursed at and spat on, frustrated and angered, and my patience has been tried on many days, it was through those fiery trials that I have learned to love some pretty unlovable people. I have seen the young and old come through the prison system, some men, some women; many drugged and drunken, suicidal and homicidal; depressed and hopeless . . . many lost.

I could pretend that I have nothing in common with those lawbreakers, but Bible says that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).   God says that “all the souls are mine . . . the soul who sins shall die” (Ez. 18:4). My soul is plagued with the same sin disease as the prostitute, the drug dealer, and the murderer. Whether prison guard or prisoner, without Christ, no man shall see the Father (John 14:6).

The life changing power of the gospel is amazing. When an inmate receives the gospel message and is truly transformed, that inmate seeks to live a godly life; no longer seeking after the flesh but seeking the Kingdom. Therefore, I thank God for the steadfast service of those volunteers who seek to free people from the bondage of sin, those whom society shuns yet Jesus loves.

Day after day and year after year, they sacrifice their time by visiting our jails, cruising the cellblocks and catwalks, preaching Christ crucified and resurrected because, “God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. So he forgives the sins of those who believe” (Rom 3:25); no matter the crime.  I thank God for prison ministry and all those who share in the work.

Originally on http://tommydavis.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/prisoners-need-regeneration-by-providence-crowder/

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Economics From A Biblical Worldview

Economics From A Biblical Worldview

by Tommy Davis (tdavis76@rochester.rr.com -  http://tommydavis.wordpress.com/)

When most people think of economics, they assume the Bible has little to say about it. Truth would have it that economic terms are woven throughout Scripture. The term “economics” stems from a Greek expression which literally means “house management.” Thus, the usage of the word “economics” describes the fiscal management of resources one has been entrusted with, either in the home or an institution. Identified in this light, we must conclude that the Bible has plenty to say about the proper controlling of assets.

The contemporary definition of economics does not square well with historic usage. Many people seem to allow politicians to apply a different set of rules when it comes to managing the resources in our economy. Citizens who accumulate debt and mismanage their monetary funds will incur disaster. Since there may be no one to bail them out, they may end up foreclosing on a home, or have their car repossessed. Wise citizens will decrease the amount of spending and encourage savings so that expenses would fall below income. Politicians, however, disregard ancient wisdom and rely on the printing press and the raising of taxes to compensate for the mismanagement of the financial system.

The Lord desires that every able-bodied person contribute to some form of “production” so that the paper we call money becomes a “certificate of performance” whereby we “exchange” valuable resources in good faith. Anything other than that is called charity. All throughout Scripture when God sent a famine, it was the scarcity of food. When the famine hit the land of Egypt, the Bible records: “There was no food in that entire region, for the famine was very severe” (Genesis 47:13). Since Joseph was second in command in Egypt, he collected all the money from the people “in exchange” for grain. Since the famine was so severe that no additional food could be produced, the money was no longer a valuable resource because there was nothing to confirm its value.  Paper money is a “reflection” of wealth and a means to “exchange” valuable resources.

Since money was no longer helpful, the Egyptians cried out to Pharaoh and Joseph: “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the money has failed” (Genesis 47:15). Thus, no amount of money would relieve the people of the famine. What mattered was the “production” of treasured resources; in this case, it was food. The people eventually agreed to sell themselves as slaves to the state in order to attempt survival.

The economic lesson is this: if we discourage domestic production, no amount of cash will cure financial ills. One way politicians discourage production is to implement all forms of expensive regulations which make it difficult to run an honest business. The raising of taxes to fund unnecessary entitlements shift valuable resources in artificial directions that raise prices and result in economic recessions. Voters who elect politicians who “tax the rich” in an effort to “pay the poor” can only blame themselves for the minimal amount of jobs available.

 

 

 

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