{"content":[{"text":"Daylight Newsletter June 2021 \n In recent weeks it has been good to see a number of prisons beginning to \n resume services and Bible studies, and to start to have opportunities to \n open up God’s Word with groups of prisoners once again. With limits on \n numbers attending, and other prisons yet to re-start these activities, we \n are also continuing to supply weekly written messages and other material, \n and it has been encouraging to hear of ways these are still being used. \n One of our chaplains has recently had contact with Dwayne, a prisoner \n who has an extremely difficult home situation and seems to feel safest in \n prison. Our chaplain was able to visit him on the anniversary of the death \n of his twin and Dwayne was very grateful for that support. He says he \n does not believe in God, but is happy to receive the weekly messages, so \n we pray that something of what he reads and the contact with our \n chaplain will be used to speak to him. \n It was also good recently to hear from Ivan, a Hungarian prisoner we have \n mentioned previously. He wrote thanking us for the regular messages and \n letting us know that how much he was enjoying an Emmaus \n Correspondence course we had sent saying, “I’m happy I got that course, \n The Bible Speaks. It is very useful for me and helped me to understand so \n many things. Now when I read the Bible I understand everything better.” \n As well as studying himself, Ivan has also been sharing what he is learning \n with other Christian prisoners he sees in the exercise yard. \n Prisoners also continue to receive Gideon New Testaments and for many \n of them, they are reading the Scriptures for the first time. One of our \n chaplains has found it a real encouragement to see this, saying “How often \n do we get asked for Bibles in our ordinary day-to-day lives outside of \n prison!” Please pray that the Lord will use His Word to speak to many.","bbox":{"left":0.062573,"top":0.23607,"width":0.8801559999999999,"height":0.7018709999999999}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.051791,"top":0.033267,"width":0.900292,"height":0.191607}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.051791,"top":0.033267,"width":0.900292,"height":0.191607}]}