Wichita, KS WOC Thank You Letter

I want to thank you for your involvement in another great Weekend of Champions.  Our Wichita, KS, event was tremendous. This was our first “ministry partnership� event where Champions for Life worked in partnership with another non-profit, Everyday Hero’s, to conduct a Weekend of Champions.   Special thanks to Rick and Alice Bair and their entire team.  They were great hosts, and they did a fantastic job. 

We had 276 Teammates (100 were Freshman), with 616 First Time Decisions for Christ and 542 Rededication Decisions.  Thanks for your part in making this happen.  Heaven is larger today, and hell is smaller!  We'll have to wait until heaven to hear the full impact of this past weekend. 

Let me tell you one story, from this past weekend.  About a dozen of our teammates, including several bikers, were assigned to the Kansas mental health correctional facility for men.  The warden was so very grateful that we came to her facility.  She said, “these men are the forgotten ones, and many of these inmates never get a visit.  You have no idea how important a visit from you can be.  It gives them hope and a sense of purpose, in an existence that can otherwise seem meaningless.  Many of these inmates will get out of here one day, and if we can help bring real positive change to their lives while they are here, then we feel like we have been successful.  This is why we want you to bring your program, and your teams into our prison.  You help bring real change to the lives of inmates.â€�

The warden also requested that we bring a couple “Harley’sâ€� into the facility, and ride them through the cell block called the “seg unit.â€� Â  So, two of our teammates brought their bikes in past the razor wired enclosure and into the prison through the secured Sally Port.  Well before the bikers entered the “Seg Unit,â€� the inmates began to hear the loud rumble of these Harley motorcycles.  And as the bikes entered the cell block, the noise of their engines began to echo throughout the prison.  One by one, the faces of these “forgottenâ€� inmates began to appear in the small cell windows in their steel doors.  

Now that we had their attention, one of our platform guests, Darlene Bahr, grabbed her guitar and began to walk down the hall singing a love song, as from a mother to her son.  There were smiles and tears throughout that cell block.  But a particular poignant moment came at the cell of one of the most troubled inmates.  Darlene stopped at this inmate’s cell, looked into his eyes and began to sing to him.  Slowly, a smile began to break out across the face of this inmate, perhaps bringing him some glimmer of hope and some reason to believe that his life could change.   Then Darlene placed her hand onto the glass, and as if on cue, that “smiling inmateâ€� placed his open hand on the glass as well.  The deputy warden, later said, with tears in his eyes, “This inmate never gets a visit, and I have never before seen a smile on his face.â€� Â  Seventy inmates found Christ in this facility alone.  What a wonderful privilege it is to partner with our Lord in the amazing work He is doing among the “least of these.â€�

In Him as Always
With Love,

Bill Glass
Phil 1:3

 

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