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Category: Chaplain Reports

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How would you react to danger like this? Inmate protected from a man with a knife [VIDEO]

Imagine this situation: you are standing on the street, just enjoying the day. Suddenly you look in front of you and there’s a man coming directly toward you. In his …

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How prayer brings near instant calm to a youth detention center on lockdown [VIDEO]

Not all violent storms are weather related. Take the storms that can, and do occur in our state’s prisons, jails and youth detention centers when inside the walls emotions are …

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Healing Newscast – Doctors Told Him He Might Never Walk Again [Video]

Not many people walk again after their leg has been injured in a close range shotgun blast. But here’s a story that defies those odds: an inmate whose leg was …

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“A change of heart” — Healing Newscast Video

It all starts within. With a simple, firm desire. Actually it’s a commitment to draw closer to God, to be more Godlike by practicing His nature in little ways, in …

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Screaming inmate calmed through the practice of love [VIDEO]

How would you handle yourself if you were locked up in a tiny room with an angry and potentially violent cell-mate screaming at you? Christian Science Chaplain Dianne shares the story …

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Watch Video: Inspiring story of an inmate’s severe pain healed spiritually

Christian Science volunteer Chaplain Fran shares the inspiring story of an inmate she was working with who healed a serious problem of recurring pain using only what she learned by …

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Man cured of insanity

Recently a former prison chaplain, Brian Kissock–now living and teaching Christian Science in Northern Ireland–told of an inmate who had been clinically diagnosed as being insane. The man often disturbed the Christian …

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Chaplain’s Video: A quick healing at a mental hospital

Welcome. Here’s our third Healing Newscast in the series. You’ll hear  Chaplain Marlon tell of a healing that occurred while visiting a mental hospital–which he does often.  After praying for a patient, …

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Chaplain’s Video: Inmate’s Prayer Heals an Infected Foot

Want to know what Christian Science Chaplains do in prisons, jails and youth detention facilities?  They bring the light of Christ to those who most need it. In this Healing …

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Family unity–from Chaplain J.

Here is some fruitage from our study of “the fields are white to harvest”. I received a letter in Spanish asking for literature and was able to find this fellow …

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…how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

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