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The Metanoia Minute
Monthly Prayer Requests and Ministry Updates June 2018
In This Issue
June Travel Schedule
June Update & Praise
June Prayer Requests
Watch Our Videos
Upcoming Events
About The Casson Family
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Dear Friend,

You are receiving this e-mail because at some point you have asked to be a prayer partner with Metanoia Ministries. Thank you very much for joining us in the hard work of prayer. We believe prayer is the work of the ministry and that all we do flows from intimate communion with Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

This has been a busy season for Metanoia. Through Shelly's hard work with the Correspondence Ministry, we have seen a dramatic rise in new students, for which we are very thankful.

With the start of mentoring at Perry Correctional in Pelzer, SC, there have been many extra trips to SC to recruit, train and get the mentors going. Metanoia is thankful to announce that we have a part-time, former mentee from Walker State Prison who will work with us to coordinate this ministry, much like Shelly does with the Correspondence Ministry. 

Please join us in praying for the work that God is doing through Metanoia. We have many requests below.
June Travel Schedule 
  • 2-3: Acworth, GA: Ministry Presentation & Preaching at Christ Covenant PCA
  • 4: Pelzer, SC: Kickoff of mentoring at Perry Correctional
  • 5: Greenville, SC: Radio Interview with Rev. Kevin Boling on Knowing the Truth radio broadcast.
  • 11: Pelzer, SC: Kickoff of second group of mentors at Perry Correctional
  • 12-15: Atlanta, GA: PCA General Assembly
  • 30: Simpsonville, SC: Mentor Training at First Baptist Church
June Update & Praise  
  • We were not able to start mentoring in May at Perry. June 4 is the date chosen to begin. Please praise God for opening up Perry for this ministry and pray for relationships to be made between mentoring partners.
  • April was the best month ever for financial support. Please praise God for His wonderful blessings in this area. We are currently at about 45% of our budget for this year. Please pray that God will continue to raise up people who want to invest in God's work in prisons.
  • Metanoia received a grant to send 10 small Reformed libraries to select prisons around the country. The first 8 of those libraries were mailed out last week!
  • Metanoia has again asked Covenant College for an intern for the fall semester and we are waiting for students to look at the recruitment materials. Please pray that God will bring us someone as good as our first intern. We praise God for this relationship with Covenant College.
June Prayer Requests  
  • Please pray for John Theoharis as he works in both development and helping to start a mentoring ministry at Phillips Correctional in Duluth, GA.
  • Please pray for Rev. Randy Jackson. In addition to the mentoring ministry at Hays State Prison, he is working towards launching some reintegration partnerships with the State of Georgia Parole Region in NW Georgia. AND, he is teaching one of the classes for seminary at Walker State Prison.
  • Please pray that God will continue to raise up financial investors who want to invest in what God is doing in the prisons.
  • Please pray for Shelly as she continues to see more and more students wanting to study with Metanoia.
  • Please pray for the expansion of mentoring to Phillips State Prison in Duluth, GA.
  • In June, all of Metanoia's Board of Directors and staff members will descend on Chattanooga for our annual face-to-face board meeting. Please pray for this time together as we work on our long-term visions for the ministry.  
  • Please pray for Rev. Tim McCracken and the work he is doing in the prisons in CA.
  • Please pray for Bradley, our newest part-time employee, as he begins the arduous task of taking over the administrative work of the mentoring ministries.  
  • Please pray for my travel schedule. I have a busy June and July scheduled.
Watch our Videos or Listen to Interviews
MNA-Metanoia Prison Ministries has been blessed with some videos that were produced by Genesis One Productions, with the help of Christ Covenant Church. Andy Caldwell directed, shot and edited the videos, and I think he did a fantastic job. You can watch the videos here:  Metanoia Video and  Metanoia Video 2 . Please let me know what you think. Also, please visit Ligonier.org and watch another video here:  http://www.ligonier.org/blog/metanoia-prison-ministries/

If you would like to listen to an interview by Dan Frye of A Rebel's Cause Radio, you can watch or listen here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSVVOxtDyQM

If you are interested in listening to the radio interview with Pastor Kevin Boling of Knowing the Truth, you can hear it here:   http://www.sermonaudio.com/playpopup.asp?SID=31312142251
If you are interested in listening to the podcast interview with William Hill of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary's Confessing our Hope podcast, it can be heard here:  http://www.gpts.edu/podcast/Broadcast7_(Casson).mp3

In 2017 I was interviewed by Eric Nevins, who hosts the podcast, "Halfway There". You can listen to his interview here: http://ericnevins.com/podcast/halfwaythere/037/
Upcoming Events: Mark Your Calendar!

I thought it might be good for you to be aware of various events that we are scheduling so that you can both pray for us, and attend if you find yourself in the area. Here are the events on the calendar thus far:
  • June 13-15: Atlanta, GA: PCA General Assembly
  • 19-20: Chattanooga, TN: Metanoia's Annual Face-to-Face Board Meeting
Mark, Eliana, Raylene & Joelle
About The Casson Family   
Mark Casson   is a husband, father, businessman, author and PCA Ruling Elder who also happens to have spent over 15 years serving a life sentence in California's prison system. He is the Director of Metanoia Prison Ministries and the Director of Prison Ministry for Mission to North America. Mark is a sought-after speaker who has taken the gospel of grace to high schools, college campuses, prisons and churches. He has a passion for mercy ministry to prisoners that is infectious.

His beautiful wife, Raylene has been a school teacher for more than 20 years and has taught in Bolivia, Canada, and the U.S. in both Christian and public schools. Raylene currently works as a first grade teacher in the Hamilton County School District in Chattanooga, TN.

They have two precious daughters. Eliana is 9 years old and has played in CA, NY, FL, MT, UT, OR, ID, NV, AZ, NM, TX, OK., TN, SC, HI, WI, GA, SD, WY, AL and MN. She loves her little sister, Joelle, who is 6. Their daddy calls them his beloved rapscallions.