Testimonials

Hi Jerry,

Thank you for all your prayers and your spiritual guidance. You asked me how I was really doing in the latest letter…I have a lot to fear right now as I am being threatened…I know Jesus is my hope and I’m desperately holding on, praying for this nightmare to come to an end. I can’t help but worry as my future is in such a dire state right now.

I can tell you I’m not a Christian just to try and get a shot at parole, because I know I won’t get parole at all…. It’s so shameful to give ownership to the crimes I’ve committed, I pray for the physical and spiritual healing of the 2 [people] I hurt. If I had one request in life, it would be that those days would be erased from existence, but the reality haunts me I think I owe it to them to never forget the pain I caused.

Please say hello to Rudy and Jennifer and God bless you all. I really look forward to getting letters from you.

Agassiz, BC

Dear Instructor,
Thank you for sending my new sets of lessons (The Message of Ephesians) after reading the book of Ephesians from my Bible (NIV) I got excited. There is a lot of real good stuff to learn. I am looking forward to reading it through the actually studies in this course and finding great treasures from God. Thanks

PS. I have a New King James bible too this is good as the lessons are based on this.

Ontario

Dear Cornerstone
Hello, thank you for your fast response. It was nice. I did not expect the personally written response that I got. Thank you again. Thank you for the verse (James 1:5) reference, I will keep that in mind always before working on my lessons. Now I would like to say thanks to everyone who is involved with Cornerstone, staff or volunteer, for bringing these lessons to me one way or another. I just want my relationship to grow stronger with my God.

Ontario

Thank you very much again.
Thank you for the calendar and Christmas card. God bless and I will write again soon. I know that I am almost done course #2 but I will keep my faith and be thankful you have provided me with these teachings. Maybe when I am done I would be able to still keep in contact with you guys or another Christian who would like to be a pen pal to talk about Christian stuff. Hope to hear back soon.

Alberta

To my Instructor
I will be leaving in 71 days so I will write you my follow up address just on the next lesson. I will be so happy when I am done my sentence…I am so full of joy, so thank you for helping me to learn once again. It means so much to me. Thank you my Cornerstone family

Saskatchewan

Dear Instructor
How’s it going? Me, I’m doing better. I have been spending a lot of time in the word and listening to Christian radio programs. I still have my struggles of course, but praise God with Christ in us we are over comers.

Alberta

Dear Cornerstone
I have been having the same dream over & over and it is starting to scare me even more these days. I don’t know what to do or say something to someone, I have talked to the chapel but not about this. I think sometime I’m going to have a heart attack and I will be gone with them to heaven. What am I to do? God bless you all. Amen

British Columbia

Dear Instructor,
I just got your letter. Thanks & it did make it here on time. I do have a prayer request. I have been diagnosed with Chronic Heart Disease. I’ve had 5 to 6 heart attacks in the last 6-8 months. It reflects on my everyday living. I’ve found that it affects my comprehension skills. It affects a lot of other things too.

I have given it to the Lord and if he feels that I need to go through this for him, well then I’m going into if full force. I like to pray about it and always ask that if he wants me to be ‘healed’ then I know he will heal me, but I ask for it to be as painless as possible (cause heart attacks hurt a lot). If you all there can pray for me in your ways I would really love that.

On a lighter note, I really enjoyed reading your letter. I will be put out [released] soon and I should start Bible College in September. Start my 4 year BA. I have done a few other bible studies.

God bless you for you knowledge. I look forward to more talks and letters. I will pray for you always my brother in Christ.

PS Here’s a stamp for the next letter.

British Columbia

Dear Cornerstone
Thank you for your letter. I am very glad to hear my prayer. I always ask him to give me his wisdom and good understanding the truth about him.

I need your office to pray for me. I have bad eyes because I got glaucoma in both eyes since 2003. I always use eye drops everyday three times a day, but no help. I trust God can heal me by prayers and believe in him…I trust him and I casting all my care upon him because he cares for me. I got surgery two times in both eyes, but it is worse and I would like to do my Bible studies to complete them and do God’s work to help in the future.

May almighty God bless our Cornerstone which is our Lord’s name Christ Jesus. Your brother in Christ

P.S. Please send me more courses! I would like to go ahead. I hope the Holy Spirit will teach me more about God’s will and live within my heart and control my life.

Alberta

Dear Cornerstone
I have recently suffered a great loss in my heart which has been very distracted and at times I verily believe that the remainder of this life has little left to look forward to or hope for.

I know the Bible says I’m not supposed to hold anyone in a higher regard than my Creator, but the point is that my common-law wife and son and daughter have been my higher power when my life, my heart and my life were totally empty and void of life. Now I stare into an empty mirror every morning, upset that the inner demon wasn’t strong enough last night to take me out of the empty life that I now live in.

There was a time, once, when I would have been able to shed a tear or two and it would make me feel better…but even those tears have left me. Last evening I almost gave up this material, gave up before I’d even got started, on everything including life. But I didn’t, I’m still at it and will continue to do so in spite of how I feel.

Please excuse me should some of my materials appear as though I am somewhat distracted and/or not quite on track sufficiently. Right now I feel automated and alone. I guess I just wanted to apologize in advance for what might turn out to be a less than concerted effort by myself.

Alberta

Dear Cornerstone
Thank you for everything thus far. I’m still struggling with spiritual warfare, as I deal with a lot of perverted comments from people. I guess the enemy will stop at nothing to bring me down, forgiveness is difficult sometimes but necessary.

I do appreciate the Bible study lessons being where I am. It’s very easy to be distracted from God’s spirit... Over 3 months it’s been since I arrived here. I’m on 23 hour [per day] lock up in my cell in segregation... I just have to stay focused on God and tolerate all of the name calling and harassment in here. If you knew me a few years ago, you would have known me to snap back at these people, but it is just another miracle and blessing from God to allow me to tolerate things that are very sensitive and hurtful to me.

The Bible study lessons are sinking in slowly and I look forward to the next lesson. Thank you all and God bless you.

British Columbia

Dear Instructor
Thank you very much for the gift of book and Bible you sent me. I was so delighted. I always have wanted a Bible Commentary for years. I love the Study Bible too and can’t wait to get into it. Thank you for the certificate too. I didn’t know that I was near the end of Level 1. I did not even know that I would be sent a gift – especially something so lovely. I knew I would receive a certificate. It too is wonderful. I have begun the Level II course and also started to read the lovely book you sent me “Essential Truths of the Christian Faith”. Once again thank you. God bless you.

Ontario

Dear Cornerstone
I received a calendar from our chaplain Dec 28. Thank you and merry Christmas to you all. Christmas was somewhat of a difficult time for me this year, and last year as well. Its not that I don’t have Jesus in my heart ‘because I do’…I am in need of people’s prayers more than anything at this time and any insight or encouragement from other fellow Christians is always a plus…

My will to be close to God is slowly getting stronger but what I need is, I guess someone to tell me to keep going, I hear it from my family often but it just doesn’t help a whole lot…

I thank you for the calendar, I love the pictures. I feed raccoons through a small hole here in my window. I love nature, I love God’s creation. It’s just hard to keep it in perspective.

I pray for all the people that I’ve hurt and seek forgiveness. Thanks for everything and anything.
God bless you.

British Columbia

Dear Cornerstone
I want to mention that I’m Roman Catholic and I was baptized when I was young and I had communion in grade school. However, I’ve always had a hard time in believing in God. In fact any time I had the chance to tell someone how much I didn’t believe and why I didn’t believe I did.

But the weirdest thing happened about 3 months ago. I went to the chapel and got a bible and I can’t stop reading. I’m not really sure what’s going on because usually guys start reading the bible when they come in, but in my case I’m just getting out. I heard of people seeing the light or having some kind of intense feeling come over them. I haven’t had anything like that, only the urge to read the bible for hours every night.

When I get released I’m going to find a church and probably talk to a priest about this, but in the meantime I’m interested in your Bible Study.

Ontario

Dear Instructor,
Thank you for introducing your name to me. Hopefully one day I will see you in person to say thanks to you and the rest of the staff for helping me gain more insights into the true word of God in Christ Jesus. I am doing a 6 year term. I am not proud of myself for what I’ve done, but I know that I’m forgiven through the blood of Jesus Christ who came to die for me so that I could live. Last September 06, I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and personal Saviour. Ever since, I’ve found so much peace and joy that I’ve never experienced before. I attend the chapel here almost every Sunday. Our chaplain is a very nice person and always there to help inmates if they ever need him, he’s the one who introduced this Cornerstone Bible course to me and that’s how I’m connected to you now. God always finds ways to connect his children together for his glory, doesn’t he? I am quite new to the bible…It’s been a blessing and always willing to learn, through Jesus of course. I’ll keep in touch, your brother in Christ.

Ontario

Dear Cornerstone
Though I am in prison the Lord saved me and has been calling out to me all my life Praise Jesus Christ for in God’s grace I’ve been saved from the wickedness that been in my life since I was very young. Yet the Holy Spirit filled me with love that I never imagined was possible. Yet everything is possible with God, Praise God! Praise Jesus!

Being recreated how he wishes me to be and to become in his purposes for I am one of his flock, I follow his commandments and in all I do, the Holy Sprit decides and strengthens m. All that is done in me is through Jesus Christ. I give thanks to the Lord for this Bible study correspondence course that he has put in my life and for the blessings of learning and sharing with you teachers at Cornerstone and the staff involved in God’s work.

I am so excited about receiving more of your courses. This lesson 1-4 was wonderful. I enjoyed it all and loved the scripture studies. God is Great! God is Good! Thanks be to God, Praise Jesus.

Alberta

Hello Instructors
I thank you for helping me become more of what I was meant to be. I understand what God wants of me and I want to do what he wants. I very much enjoy these lessons I am doing. I was raised a Christian, my father is a pastor. I was adopted and followed the Lord until I was fifteen, that’s when I left home.

My life from that time until now has been very much worldly. I thank the Lord for bringing me to a place like this to realize what was going on in my life. I feel very much free knowing I have the Lord to care and love in all situations. He has provided books, a great church in here and blessed me with getting to know you. I thank you for the prayers and the time to help me better myself for the Lord. Well I thought I’d write a little to explain who I was and what’s going on in my life. Again, thank you and God bless you and your family.

Alberta