Cary White and his parents
*The prison guards at the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC), a Level II correctional facility in Norco, Calif., rushed in when they saw a group of inmates submerging a man’s head in the communal sinks, thinking they were preventing a race-related murder, says worldcalifornia.com.
“The guards come in wanting to know why the races are all together. They thought we were trying to drown the guys, but we were just baptizing them,” said Cary White, the man who was baptizing the three new believers on that day.
White had received a seminary-level education while serving his sentence in CRC through The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI), a program developed by World Impact and facilitated by Prison Fellowship to provide seminary classes to prison inmates and the urban poor.
The program has been so successful in curbing violence behind bars that prison guards and the California Department of Corrections have taken notice, some even inviting TUMI into their prisons. This year TUMI is expanding from five to 26 California prisons.
Read the full story at worldcalifornia.com.
