A former convict-turned-field director for the Prison Fellowship ministry who watched her own mother kill her father, says Jesus helped turn her life around.
“When I was 7, I watched my mother kill my father. I had to help her put him in the car. He died on the way to the hospital. It was in self-defense, but I had to go to court. I had not taken on my height yet, so I had to be put on a pillow to tell the story. That was my first experience with the justice system,” began Pauline Rogers’ testimony in a piece posted on the Prison Fellowship‘s website last week.
Rogers, who now serves as the ministry’s field director for the state of Missouri, detailed how she started shoplifting at the age of 9, often stealing food to help feed her 10 younger siblings.
Eventually she was arrested and given a six-year sentence, but it was in county jail that a Prison Fellowship volunteer told her about Christ.
“The volunteer helped me realize that it wasn’t my responsibility to take care of my siblings. I knew that I could depend on God. I didn’t have to be the savior. It freed me,” Rogers said.
She added that attending the discipleship and life-skills training classes in prison were key to changing her life around.
“Seeing those volunteers…
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