More inmates see the light

Faith

TWO students were among 27 more prisoners from Barawaghi jail in Chimbu baptised last Saturday as members of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church.
President of the Eastern Highlands and Chimbu SDA Mission Rev Joanis Fegamo conducted the baptism at Tem creek outside the jail.
Senior jail officer Mark Kusia commended SDA Church for partnering with Correctional Service to rehabilitate the prisoners.
Kusia said spiritual rehabilitation was the way forward to help prisoners settle down and contribute meaningfully to their communities when discharged from jail.
He said prisoners committed crimes because they didn’t accept Christ in their lives and ended up in jail. Kusia said that it was not by mistake that they were in jail: It was through God’s plan and now they were changed spiritually.
He said under Correctional Services’ prisoner welfare and rehabilitation programme, hundreds of prisoners had been baptised and changed spiritually.
Kusia said over the past six years, there had been no mass breakouts because of such programmes.
He said the various churches programmes made the work of jail officers easier.