Inmate Ministry Leads Some to Christ

A prison inmate in Pennsylvania began a program to help lead other inmates to Christ. Merle Weaver was on trial for buying a gun for someone who couldn't legally have one when his friend invited him and his wife to go on a marriage retreat. After going through the death of his father-in-law and now the trial, Weaver wasn't sure that this would much help, but while at the retreat he learned the Good News of Christ and decided to follow Him. Weaver ended up going to prison for two and a half years. Nearly six years later he decided to start a program to help inmates who may have gone through what he went through. The program called Celebrate Recovery now teaches the Bible in prisons in his area.