I apologize for no prayer request last week or notice of no prayer request.
Dixon's classes on Wednesday 03/11 were cancelled do to a personal family matter related to my son. One of the most vital things I learned when first being called to ministry; family before ministry.
Sheridan's Friday classes 03/13 were cancelled do to my being ill.
I ask you to make note of Michael S.'s Sheridan afternoon he came to me at the start of class to share his father is in hospice and does not know the Lord. Michael's out date is scheduled for 06/10/2015. Michael is greatly concerned that his father is not saved and wants to share the Gospel with his dying father. Please pray that IDOC will grant Michael and early release and or that the Lord will keep Michael's father from passing until he is released.
To Him be the glory
Scott
Currently there are still only 182 subscriber to Disciple Prayer Requests, (it seems one subscribes and another opts out ;-( ). I'm still hoping to raise that number to 200, if you know a prayer warrior, invite them to subscribe by sending an e-mail to SOCPM@SOCPM with 'Subscribe Disciple Prayer Requests' as the subject.
DISCIPLESHIP: SOLDIER'S CALL TO DEFEND HIS FAITH - PART 2
DIXON CORRECTIONAL CENTER
Richard - Please pray for me this week. I have filed a mandamus in the Lee County Court. I'm working on paroling out of Dixon Correctional Center, I'm praying the Lord's will my next court date is 4/8/15 9:30 AM
SHERIDAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER - AFTERNOON CLASS
Joseph - Pray for me that I learn to worship and pray in a manner that God is glorified and Christ is honored. Please pray for my family still that God would change hearts and put his spirit in them.
Richard W. - I need prayer support for my liver and for the doors to be open to start my treatments. I need prayer support for my job in the unit to help me restore some order and righteousness among family members. I need prayer and support to help me keep my motive set on God's righteousness and not be judgmental.
Anthony - Mr. Schreiber had a heart attack about three weeks ago and I would ask that you pray for his recovery and comfort for the family to have peace and for the glory of God. I also would like you to pray for Mary B., strength, hope and grace. The love of God and his grace. Please pray also for the leaders of the world and the governments under their care. Pray for Scott's son Cameron. And also that God would move.
Leroy - Please pray for my family and me, for six months good time, my father's health, my sister Deborah, for her problems and also please pray that my fiancé Elise finds a job. She also finds peace with her demons she faces in addiction and things go the way she wants in her custody battle with her ex-husband for her daughter. Thank you very much.
Tommy - Thank God that he loves us all. Thanks for letting me pray for you and can you all pray for the people that have not and can you all pray for Angela and pray for me, Tommy, and my family. Thank you.
Name not given - For my daughter Becky, for my ex Donna, for my fiancé Karen, for my recovery one on parole 4/17/15, for Cameron, for Scott's health, that I can get my CDL reinstalled next month and employment (I leave 4/17/15). Thank you.
Rodney - I want to break my heart that it will be world peace. I go home 3/27/15 please pray that I have continuing walks with God find a job, staying sober and clean, pray for my mother and family that they may stay in God's blessing. Love your fellow man, pray for enemies and neighbors and pray for Scott and family. Amen.
Louguin - Please give me the will and power to overcome my addiction and give me the wisdom and the knowledge to to help save others, 'addicts', still suffering. Please, thank you. Thank you for my Crossroads Bible teacher in San Bernardino California pray for her and strength.
Derrick - Please pray for my kids and my kid's mothers. Pray for my mother and father and brothers and sisters. Pray for my prison ministries teacher's son, that he gets the help he needs. Pray that I get better in reading the Bible. Please pray that my wife forgives me. Pray that I get good time. Please pray that Scott get better and his wife. Please pray that Mike's father get better so he can see his father when he get out of prison. Please pray that my kids and wife still love me for me the new me thank you.
Tanorrio - I ask that I continue to have a strong mind not to react to negativity, to stay focused on my family and my goals that I have set for myself on my release. I ask that my cousin have a good release when he is released on 9 April. I ask God to continue to bless me and give me strength to complete the program.
Cody - Please pray for my girlfriend Carrie's daughter, Heather and her son Isaiah. She is "in love" with an abusive guy and is trapped in a abusive relationship. Also please pray for my daughter's mother, Amie. She has the power to connect me with my daughter Raleigh. Only spoken to her three times and gotten something in the mail once. I sent her cards, letters, drawings and received nothing. Please I pray that God softens her heart.
Willie - I pray that Mr. King looses that spirit of confusion that's within him to the point that it is no longer amusing to him and God strengthens Scott to be able to deal with it going off.
Michael S. - I want to be effective in helping my children Matthew (21) Jessica (18) become Christians when I get released. My son Matthew and daughter grudgingly have gone to church and receive the Catholic sacraments of first holy Communion and confirmation however they are not spiritual since their mother, Tammy who I divorced in the year 2000, does not believe in religiosity, she has not been as good at encouraging spirituality as I would prefer. My ideal world would be to have my ex-wife and both my children find Jesus. My father Stanley is battling emphysema and has been dealing with deteriorating health. He has had only 15% lung capacity for about two years. I recently found out that he will be in the hospital until he passes .I have approximately 50 to 60 days left and probably miss his passing. He is a very committed Catholic church firmly spiritual with AA. He mentions his higher power as he understands him frequently. I am hopeful he will accept Jesus as Lord before he passes.
SHERIDAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER - EVENING CLASS
Jesus A. - Can you please pray for me, ask God to help me gain more knowledge in His word and instruction to help me be fearless in the ministry to stand up for Christ in every aspect of my life, to help me do His will not mine own, ask God to help me in each and every step of the way in my life. Can you please pray for me and my friends and family for God to watch over all our children and family to keep us safe to keep us focused in our faith in Jesus Christ, to help us always overcome temptations, to rebuke the devil, the negativity, the evil in this world. To bless us in each and every way possible in order so we can bless others. Thank you, God bless.
Paco = Please pray for my fiancé Shirley Ann that she is doing fine at home in Hammond and pray that my kids Carmen, Linda and Daniel will pray for their daddy's safe return home in one piece. Thank you Scott your family God bless you and your family as well.
Name not given - Pray for my marriage that I may be able to reestablish my relationship with my wife. Also pray for that Cedino, that he may be able to send a book for me.
Name not given - Pray for my family and my cellie, Greg, I want payers for Scott and his family. Thank you God bless you.
Lawrence - I would like to ask for prayers and blessings for those men and woman that volunteer to bring God's Word to all inmates in the world. Both county jails and prisons. Please pray for siblings that have family members incarcerated. Pray for us that have loved ones on the outside and don't have means to communicate. Pray their friends are cared for by God and blessed. Thank you.
Julio - Please pray for me Julio and a special prayer for my mother Maria and all my sisters Grissel, Yesenia, Janet and the rest of my family. Thank you. Also for myself Julio for strength, patience and for a TV. I don't have one but I put my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ in my father by Lord my God, amen.
Name not given - My mom Joanne, has just had knee surgery on 3/16/15. I asked for a prayer for a well and speedy recovery. Thanks.
Eric - Please pray for this anger and hate that I have growing inside of me towards other people such as one person being my celie. Because he's white and tries to act like he is black and I honestly don't know how to accept this?? If you're black you're black but if you're white acting like your black, 'come on' !! So I feel I need a lot of prayer in dealing with this issue. Pray for all of my children and my family that they're safe and healthy. Please pray that God may find a way to bless me with some of the six-month good time. Please pray that I'll start catching on to all of this math that I've got to learn so that I'm able to take and pass the GED test. The way it is I struggle with the math because I find it hard. Pray for my brother Aaron because he has strayed away from God and going to church and Bible study. I guess that he feels that God didn't work out the problems in his life.
Name not given - My prayer request is for my friends Pablo and Jesus because they're paroling soon. I ask that the Lord keep them safe and out of these places. Also that the Holy Spirit guides them to their walk of life that they remain strong.
Pablo - I want to pray for my patience on my release and not let the minor things get to me each day. I get anxious and I pray that God leads me in the right direction and help me be patient because everything is in His time. I pray for my sobriety and to keep me busy if it is a job, school, family time, anything to keep me away from negativity. I pray for him well management of my money and use it on necessary things like my children and I pray that I have no problems with the mothers of my children. In Jesus name I pray amen.
Ronald - Can you pray for me to walk a straight path what I go home and can you pray that I get a great job one being the railroad.
Brandon - That I be given the spirit of revelation and wisdom in the knowledge of God in and through Jesus the Christ! That my eyes be enlightened that I may know the hope of His call and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance of the Saints and the power that is on the inside of me. Also pray for my family and Shanta my daughter's mother, that God would keep molding her heart to receive the Holy Word of God and become the woman God created her to be. Thank you and God bless you, your beloved brother in Christ.
Wayne - Please pray for my family that they all they are all doing well in need of nothing. Please pray for my girl Jessi, that she does well financially and is able to support herself and our son Dillon and that she grows closer to Christ every day and that she continues to bring Dillon here to visit me so that him and I keep closer as father and son while we are apart from each other. Also glad Jessica back to me so I could be a complete Christian family together. Please pray for my little boy Dillon, he has been going through some behavioral issues in school. Please pray that he continues to grow and be a healthy little boy and that he grows closer Christ every day. Please pray for me, that I continue to grow in faith and my love of Jesus Christ and that I continue to do well in the welding class and I am able to gain employment in the welding field upon my release and I am able to support myself, Jessi and Dillon upon my release. I also have a court date on 4/18/15 that could possibly lesson my sentence if all goes well, so please keep that in your prayers. Thank you very much your brother in Christ.
Derek - Please pray for my family as always. I have not heard from my wife for 60 days again, I'm trying to have the patience that the Lord has had with me with her. This has been an ongoing thing for three years off and on. Pray I can hold on to this marriage. Pray for the family Charlotte. A family friend and my kid's babysitter, she went to heaven on 3/6/15. As always I pray I could be awarded some good time as there are so many others that are getting it and lastly for the hungry refugee children and persecuted Christians around the world. God bless you and I will keep you in my prayers.
CHRISTIAN LIVING: RENEWING FATHERHOOD
DIXON CORRECTIONAL CENTER
No prayer request submitted
SHERIDAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER
Michael - My dad had to go back to surgery to have his metal plate taken out of his knee and had to replace it with a plastic one because of infection. He now has to stay in a nursing home for two weeks for recovery. Also the leaves my mom to herself to have to get dialysis and all her cancer doctors. My very good friend is having a financial argument with a business partner that is now refusing to give back his computer, client files and gear for jobs. His name is Mike. Also for Abby my daughter and Jenny, her mom, that they know how much I love them and that God would provide for their financial, emotional and spiritual needs. Scott's health concerns will be in God's hands. I pray that God will keep him safe and help him with any pain and anxiety. For Saied Abadini (a prisoner for Christ in Iran. That I get into school soon. That God will help me to be a good Christian and will put me in circumstances to spread his Word and thin the saving message of the gospel of Jesus to others.
Leroy - Please pray for my family in need. Pray for my dad he is sick and also pray for my sister Deborah she is very stressed and not well mentally. Also pray for the safety of my daughter Lily and my fiancée Elsie she is struggling with addiction and she needs a job. Also please pray for the possibility of Scott's surgery. Also pray I get the six-month good time so I can go home soon. Also pray for everyone in the world thank you
Name not given - My family, missionary, Pastor, government, authority, counselors, homeless, addiction, lost souls and God's will.
Joselito - I want to thank God for my prayer that I know He is here for me and my family.
Name not given - For our school safety kids going on spring break. Our governor to sign good time bill for the prison system. The people bringing God's message 3/21/13 to Sheridan in their safety and family. Pres. Obama family including family situation in Jesus name amen.
Cedric - For Scott's health and his family. Brother in C-17 and staff, everyone in Inside Out Dad class, my family health and finances, Johnson family to be strong in finance and health. Jessica and me continue communication and healthy relationship, financial protection, to reunite Williams and Brewer family, my family's health, Davis spiritually reunite, my court date judgment to be fair, Suggs and Bruce family reunite. Love always in Jesus name
SOCPM STUDENT ALUMNI
(G) Graduate, (P) Paroled, (R) Removed, (T) Transfer, (D) Drop, (I) Incomplete (W) Writ
* Violated Parole ** Re-offended
ADMISSIONS/TRANSFERS
Joseph
Dixon; a Soldier's Call to...
Renewing Fatherhood - 11/2011 thru 01/2012 (G)
Transferred to East Moline 03/11/2015
Cory**
Sheridan; A Soldier's Call to...
Renewing Fatherhood - 06/2012 thru 09/2012 (G)
Admitted to R&CC Stateville 03/12/2015
Transferred to Vienna 03/20/2015
Dwayne**
Sheridan; A Soldiers Call to...
One to One Discipleship 10/2012 thru 02/2013 (P)
Transferred to Western Illinois 03/13/2015
Kenneth
Southwestern; New Life Corrections
Transforming Incarcerated Dads 10/2012 (G)
Admitted to R&CC Menard 03/20/2015
PAROLES
Ron
Sheridan; A Soldier's Call to...
Know God's Holiness - 07/2013 thru 09/6/13 (I)
Know, Understand & Share the Gospel 12/2013 thru 04/2014 (G)
Know Sound Doctrine - 05/2014 thru 07/2014 (G)
Defend His Faith Part 1 - 08/2014 thru 12/2014 (G)
Defend His Faith Part 2 - 01/2015 thru 03/2015 (P)
Paroled 03/13/2015
Christian
Sheridan; A Soldier's Call to...
Renewing Fatherhood - 12/2013 thru 02/2014 (G)
Defend His Faith Part 2 - 01/2015 thru 03/2015 (P)
Paroled 03/17/2015
Anthony
Centralia; New Life Corrections
Transforming Incarcerated Dads - 11/2012 (G)
Paroled 03/18/15
Jose
Sheridan; A Soldier's Call to...
Know, Understand & Share the Gospel 12/2013 thru 04/2014 (G)
Seek Biblical Counsel - 05/2014 thru 07/2014 (G)
Defend His Faith Part 1 - 08/2014 thru 12/2014 (G)
Defend His Faith Part 2 - 01/2015 thru 03/2015 (P)
Paroled 03/18/2015
Thomas
Dixon; A Soldier's Call to...
Know, Understand and share the Gospel 12/2013 (I)
Paroled 03/20/2015
Pierre
Sheridan; A Soldier's Call to...
Renewing Fatherhood - 10/2014 (D)
Paroled 03/20/2015
Thomas
Dixon; a Soldier's Call to...
Defend His Faith Part 2 - 02/2015 thru 03/2015 (T)
Dixon; New Life Corrections
Transforming Incarcerated Dads - 03/2015 (I)
Transferred to Stateville MSU 03/11/2015
Paroled 03/20/2015
DISCHARGES
Terry
Stateville MSU; New Life Corrections
Transforming Incarcerated Dads - 10/2012 (G)
Discharged 03/02/2015
Richard
Southwestern; New Life Corrections
Transforming Incarcerated Dads - 10/2012 (G)
Discharged 03/03/2015