In December, a group of volunteers from Calvary and other churches in our community came together to make gift baskets to distribute at a Christmas worship service at the St. Charles County Correctional facility. The organizer recently received a letter from one of the recipients. We thought you might enjoy reading it:
Diane,
My name is Lorna [last name removed for privacy] and I an inmate at St. Charles Co. Dept. of Corrections. Just wanted to drop a note of appreciation to you and your church, also to anyone else who was involved in doing our Christmas Program. I know a couple of churches got together to make our bags if you know which ones could you just thank them for me “Thank You more than I could ever express.” Also I seen our bibles are from First Baptist Church in O’Fallon. Our stamps here are limited so if you could also let them know somehow that getting my own bible for Christmas and hearing the word of God for Christmas really touched my heart and soul in a very deep place. I just can’t stop crying but they are not sad tears. Just tears of, oh I don’t know the word. (Smile) I guess joy would be one that could come close. It is very deep to know that God loves me no matter what I’ve done. He loves me. That makes me feel so good from the inside out. So from my heart & soul thank you and God Bless all of you for taking the time to let a “couple of convicts” know there is at least one person out there that doesn’t think we deserve to be thrown in the human waste category. Again thank you and Merry Christmas.
Lorna
