 Daryl, thank you so much for coming up here. We just want to start off with, I know I mentioned your name, but how did you get to know Jesus Christ, your Lord personal Savior, and just the journey that God has taken you on? Well I was born and raised in a Christian home and for all your mothers out here, I was remember my mom, I'd have her lead me to the Lord like 10-12 times and you get baptized about you know eight or nine times and then and then in my life you know all I ever wanted was a house a car and a wife and I had all those things and in one day it just like it blew up and I had forgot the most important thing and that was God in our in in all of that and I ended up getting divorced and I remember just driving to the back with all the upbringing in a Christian home my mom my grandma you know my dad I just ended up in the park a lot of a church and I just cried and asked God to just forgive me for you know not allowing to be a part of my life and and then after that I God blessed me with a wife and and then it was just a got me in a good church that believes a lot like this church we believed and we did we used to go into the halfway house and the hospital north in Idaho three days a week we did Bible studies we did AV meetings and so God just began to plug me in to those types of things and just kind of blossom from there and and tell us that from going from there getting involved and in with the church and all the ministries what was birthed inside of your heart for what particular ministry and just kind of share about the prisoner ministry from there yeah I've always just had a heart for people like the first the church I got really got saved started serving the Lord is we did the halfway house and we started getting men out of prisons coming to the halfway house and and then I got involved in prison ministry in Idaho and would go in with a another gentleman that was in our church that was going in there he needed help and so I started going with the ham and then when I we actually moved to Tri-Cities to help start a church here and we did it for like five years and at that time I met Bob Hagan and he just the way the Lord works he just he just encouraged me hey I need help in the prisons and what's kind of my heartbeat so he got he got me all signed up we'd go into Walla Walla and that was amazing because Walla Walla and its institution is one of the only ones in the United States the loud men to go in and just walk the tears we could go they just open any door we'd one week we'd go into the death row and talk to Bob Yates the man that was killed all the people in Spokane to talk to him and and we next week we'd go over to the you know a block B block you just went wherever you want and we met a lot of neat people and and then it just blossomed there and then I took like a five year because when you're in doing prison ministry if you have a friend in prison that you communicate and we're you're not really allowed to you know communicate with that prisoner his family and all those things will Bob and I Bob introduced me to a man his name is preacher and he's over in Stafford Creek right now and so we get together every Sunday he calls in we have Bible studies and other people call in and and and so it was just tell us Darrell I'm sure that you could go on and on about how many incredible salvations and testimonies you've seen through the prisoner ministry can you just mention just one of the prisoner testimonies that you were mentioning me to me earlier yeah this is and this is kind of home I don't know maybe about 20 years ago there was I believe he was a pastor or working in a church and he had a wife and two young kids a boy and a girl and there used to be a young man that walked by his house every day and I heard this testimony when we went in to see Ted preacher in Stafford Creek my wife and I and this young man was up in front telling this testimony so the young man was walking back and forth every day in the and you know how we Christians good morning young man how are you Lord bless you well this one day that young man said I'm gonna go in there make that man as miserable as I am because the come to find out his dad was either a pastor and he had a heart attack he died and that boy was just discouraged you know got it allow that to happen and so then the he went in he shot the husband and the two kids were there and so they went to trial he was convicted he was sent to prison well fast forward you know like 18 years later Tina I are in here in his here in his testimony this this young man that actually killed and he was telling about how we he got saved in the ministry Theodore and Ted preacher was a part of that and he came to the Lord and he was so discouraged that man he just wanted to be able to do he felt so bad for what he had done and took that man's life and he prayed and he sought God and they encouraged on him he's just so discouraged and so depressed but all the guys in prison encouraged him and one day got a letter in the mail from the family member that he had killed their father and it was a young boy and now he's like 18 or in his 20s and he was able to he said he wanted to come and see him and the prisoner was real worried he didn't know how this was gonna go down you know and but he was a Christian now so they just told him just trust the Lord and so he trusted the Lord he came in they had their visit and we're here in this testimony that the young man said that that boy he said what he really wanted to know is what his dad said to him just before he died and before that all took place the young man the guy was so when he come into the room I'm so apologized I'm so sorry for what I did and he said oh you know we and I just so feel so terrible and the young man says well you don't have to worry my mom and my sister and I we've been praying for you for 20 years we forgive you after you did it and he just couldn't I mean take that kind of forgiveness and that love and that mercy and that grace and then at the very end he told that young man what his dad said he said your dad told me he said no matter what you do to me today just know this that I love you and God loves you and he killed him and so to hear that testimony there in Stafford Creek of that man it's just you know the amazing the mercy and the grace and the love of God it's just we can't hardly fathom it and I mean that's an incredible story of forgiveness and the power of forgiveness but also a reminder that as society has written off prisoners God has not forgotten them and Darrell also is if you can just please tell us how many years have you been in prison ministry and are you still currently doing it and are the people of God invited to partake and help you out in this area oh yeah I started in Idaho did it for five six years moved here and then I met Bob and Bob's been doing it for 26 years 30 years doing prison ministry and he just called me up about two years ago and got me to going to down to Oregon we go to two rivers and it's like once a month on a Tuesday and so he's been doing that and so you're all if you want to do prison ministry just get a hold of Bob and he would be more than happy because they do need lots of help there's lots of men and they just love seeing people from the outside and just love on them and and it's it's it is amazing ministry and I just want to encourage everyone as well is that Darrell wasn't in prison himself he just had a heart for the people that were lost and forgotten so don't write yourself off saying well I don't know if I can relate God can use you for those because people can see love and care through each and every one of us and so God is able to use him even though he wasn't in that area himself but God is using him mightily in that in Jesus name so that's just encouragement for everybody thank you Darrell so much for that powerful powerful testimony thank you for watching this content I know this was a blessing to you we would like to ask you to subscribe to our channel and click on the bell on our channel so that each time we upload something you can be notified don't forget to share this content with your friends and 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