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

This e-mail will be going out on April 1, most commonly known as April Fool's Day. This year, however, the day is known as Resurrection Sunday, or Easter. If you read this email on Easter, please stop here and pray for a moment. Pray to the Father and thank Him for accepting the perfect sacrifice of His Son, Jesus. Thank Him for raising Jesus from the dead for our justification (Rom. 4:25).

Yesterday, I attended the funeral of one of our faithful mentors. I am sad that my brother is no longer here, but I rejoiced that he is in glory with Jesus, the one who died for his sins. I know that I shall see him again one day.

This man was a mentor to two prisoners over the past 5+ years. He and his wife considered both men to be spiritual sons, and those men considered him to be their spiritual father. This is the work that Metanoia is facilitating, and it is the work that desperately needs your continued prayer.
April Travel Schedule 
  • 1: Greenville, SC: Ministry Presentation at Christ Community Church (PCA)
  • 2-5: Florence, MS: Twin Lakes Fellowship & Teach class at RTS, Jackson
  • 16: Pelzer, SC: Mentor Ministry Kickoff
  • 26: Greenwood, SC: Calvary Presbytery Meeting
April Update & Praise  
  • We have recruited and trained 20 mentors to begin mentoring at Perry Correctional in Pelzer, SC. We are thankful to the Holy Spirit for putting this ministry in men's hearts.
  • We received word in March that we were awarded a substantial grant which will account for 10% of our cash budget! Praise be to God for his provision!
  • I was asked to teach a seminar on prison ministry at the PCA Mercy Conference that was held in March. We had 18 people in the class who were very interested in learning about reintegration! 
  • So far in 2018 we have trained 18 new mentors for the mentoring ministry at Walker State Prison in GA.
  • One of our 2018 goals is going to be expanding Metanoia in the area of reintegration. Metanoia has been invited to partner with State of Georgia parole officials in this area. Rev. Randy Jackson will be working closely on this for the NW Georgia area.
  • Last month I asked you to pray for Rev. Tim McCracken, who had back surgery. The surgery seems to have been a success with Tim experiencing no pain almost immediately! We praise God for His healing mercies!
April Prayer Requests  
  • 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 for Shelly. In the month of March she received more than 100 new student requests from around the country. This is in response to the packets she is sending to every prison in the U.S. So far, she is only up to states beginning with the letter D!
  • Please pray for Shelly as she keeps up the daily work of maintaining the correspondence ministry. 
  • Please pray for the expansion of mentoring to Phillips State Prison in Duluth, GA. 
  • Please pray for Rev. Tim McCracken and the work he is doing in the prisons in CA.
  • Please pray for John Theoharis' work in two prisons in GA.
  • Please pray that God will raise up an army of mentors for Perry CI near Greenville, SC.

  • Please pray that God will bring us some new financial investors. As our ministry grows, the need for additional partners also grows.

  • Please pray for wisdom and vision for myself and for our board of directors.
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:
  • April 2-5: Twin Lakes Fellowship, Florence, MS
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.