Of all the prisons Pippa and that i have visited round the world, this was the worst. it's in capital of Zambia, Zambia. The jail was in-built 1950 for 250 men. these days it holds over one,300. The cells, that were engineered to carry fifty, are currently home to over one hundred fifty men. they're bolted within these cells from eight o’clock in the dark till eight o’clock in the morning. There isn’t enough space for all of them to lie at the identical time. they need to require it in turns. The smell and also the heat in those cells should be virtually intolerable. If the jailers don't have AIDS or TB after they enter the prison, they're seemingly to become infected shortly once.
The cells surround a court, that is at the centre of the jail. we tend to control a service there. perhaps as a result of there was nothing else to try to to, nearly each one of the inmates attended. The service was light-emitting diode by a person WHO had been awaiting trial for four years. He was a Christian pastor WHO was suspect of some minor offence (for that the penalty in European nation would most likely are atiny low fine, had he been convicted). although he may perhaps are innocent, this man had been languishing in a very jail for four years, unconvicted, while not trial, not knowing once he would be discharged – if ever.
I will never forget his opening words as he began to lead the service: ‘God is good – all the time.’ Here was a man who had absolute confidence in the goodness of God, not because of his circumstances but in spite of them. He knew and had experienced the goodness of God in the midst of great suffering. As a result, even though he found himself in the appalling conditions of this prison, he followed Jesus’ example and ‘went around doing good’ (Acts 10:38).
John Wesley once same, ‘Do all the nice you'll, by all the means that you'll, altogether the ways in which you'll, altogether the places you'll, in any respect the days you'll, to any or all the folks you'll, as long as ever you'll.’
