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Marriage Seminar Attendees
Please begin to pray now for the WVIW Marriage Seminar weekend at the Darrington Unit, the prisoners, the prison staff, and for all to go as smoothly as possible.
I would like to ask you to especially pray for the other volunteers and the inmate couples who will attend this seminar.
The volunteers are:
Omar & Jessica
Randy & Eileen
Martin & Karen
Patricia
Bobby & Bunny
Richard & Kristi
Glenn
Mike & Margaret
Randy & Linda
Javier
Travis & Gina
Calvin & Nikki
Fred & Nesta
Nathanael & Laura
Myself and Betty.
Thanks very much
Johnny Moffitt.
Upcoming Events for Johnny Moffitt
I hope that you will be able to join me as I travel the next few weeks. I really have been blessed to be a part of these gatherings at churches around Texas and I know you will be to!
Please take a few minutes to look at the next few weeks and let me know if I will be seeing you at any of the upcoming churches or events. You can email me or just leave a comment below. I also encourage you to find us on Facebook by heading over to the official ministry facebook page.
Thank You
Johnny Moffitt
Upcoming Events for Johnny Moffitt
Please take a few minutes to look at the next few weeks and let me know if I will be seeing you at any of the upcoming churches or events. You can email me or just leave a comment below. I also encourage you to find us on Facebook by heading over to the official ministry facebook page.
Thank You
Johnny Moffitt
WVIW Staff need.
Dear Friends,
March 11-13, we are hosting our fifth “Marriage Retreat” for correctional officers and staff in Region II of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. We have received funds to pay for the officer couples from Gateway Church in Dallas, but we need help with sponsoring our staff.
Our volunteer team members pay their own way but the staff must be sponsored. We need sponsorships for four staff couples at $380 per couple. This covers three nights lodging and eight meals for husband and wife.
Would you please consider sponsoring one or more WVIW staff couples for this much needed Marriage Retreat? These officers have a divorce rate of 95%. These retreats have proven to be very effective in the past. In fact we have received the Govenor’s Award for them twice. In 2000 WVIW was named “The Best Family Ministry in Texas” for these retreats.
We need your help. Please help us reach, strengthen, or even save these troubled marriages.
You may donate on line at www.wviw.com, or send a check to the address below.
God bless you and your church for all you can do.
Johnny Moffitt
Founder and President
Worldwide Voice in the Wilderness
PO Box 740273
Dallas, TX 75374
972-234-6009
FAX 972-234-6050
www.wviw.com
johnnymoffitt@wviw.com
TDCJ Funding for Chaplains targeted for cuts
Those responsible for cutting the state budget have targeted chaplaincy, and have “zero funded” this entire department from the Texas Department of Corrections.
Chaplains in the State of Texas are trained professionals who manage the religious programs in each Texas Prison.
They help to manage 18,000 volunteers, most of which are helping to bring real life change to inmates.
The short sightedness of this decision cannot be underestimated. The dedicated service of these volunteers is in the hundreds of thousands of hours and results in an estimated $12.6 million of free service in Texas Prisons each year. And the lives of thousands of inmates whose lives are positively impacted or dramatically changed each year is a real saving to the State.
Each inmate who turns from crime and doesn’t re-enter the system, due to the work of chaplains, and the programs they manage, will save the State tens of thousands of dollars in court and prison costs. Those saving will be potentially eliminated if the chaplaincy program is ended. In fact, all a Chaplain has to do to recoup his entire annual salary is to influence one prisoner each year to give up his/her criminal activity.
One senior Prison official said that if the chaplaincy program is cut, the program will have to be managed by a correctional officer or a secretary, who will also be responsible for recruiting volunteers. It is widely believed that volunteer service will then necessarily drop off dramatically. Chaplains also provide “Pastoral Care” for everyone in these correctional facilities. This is a high stress work environment, and the pressures on the families of correctional officers are significant. It is difficult to find a community of 500 people in America which does not have pastoral care. Such care will be very hit and miss without the Chaplaincy Department.
Action Plan: Contact by personal visit, telephone call, letter, fax or email your State Rep and State Senator: 1) The address of your State Representative is: The Honorable (Name), Texas House, P O Box 2910, Austin TX 78768-2910 2) The address of your State Senator is: The Honorable (Name), Texas Senate, P O Box 12068, Austin TX 78711
Also please contact your Statewide Officials: 1) The Honorable Rick Perry, Governor’s Office, P O Box 12428, Austin TX 78711 (no email, must contact through his website) 2) The Honorable David Dewhurst, Lt. Governor’s Office, P O Box 12068, Austin TX 78711, phone, (512)463-0001, fax (512)936-6700, Email 3) The Honorable Joe Straus, Speaker of the House, P O Box 2910, Austin TX 78768, phone (512)463-1000, fax (512)463-1064
What Do You Say? Tell them that it is critical for Texas to continue to fund the Chaplaincy Department, with at least one chaplain in each prison, and that a failure to do so will cost the State much more over the long term than in any perceived budget savings now. Time is Critical HB 1 has Chaplaincy listed as “zero funded” … which means if it is not “funded” in House Bill 1 (the Appropriation Bill), and not “funded in Senate Bill 1( the Finance Bill), in a couple of months both the house and senate will appoint a Conference Committee to work out the differences between HB1 and SB1; It could be TOO LATE if chaplaincy is not “funded” before the conference committee.
Please take a few minutes to contact the 5 officials identified above. And please pray for this issue as well, and for those in the State government who will be deciding this issue over the next couple of months.
Blessings, –
Johnny Moffitt
Founder and President
Worldwide Voice in the Wilderness