Here are some quotes from the participants during the weekend:
"I have never seen Christian love in action like this before. It’s a shame that I had to come to prison to see and experience Christian love…and, it’s a shame that you guys had to come here to show it to me."
"What the D.O.C. has failed to do ever since it came into existence, Kairos is accomplishing. That is, rehabilitation."
"The talks on forgiveness really hit home and it's forcing me to deal with this issue. It's been a real blessing."
"I've slowly pulled myself away from the church the past 16 years, but I know I belong in the body even if I'm only a toenail."
"I demonstrated agape [with the cookies] when I got back to my dorm and they were shocked."
"I have a lot of holes and what I've been taught here has filled the voids. I'll die representing Jesus."
"It's been great meeting 'all my relations'."
"When we can truly man up, what will we be? Now that's true leadership."
"I'm muslim and came for the food and got a lot more than I bargained for. I've been here 10 years & you've got something good and I mean it."
"I see now that I'm not alone in life."
"Before Thursday I didn't know who God was, but I've always felt there's someone behind me and now I know who it is."
"I've been in over 18 years and I'm 35. Been in lots of hairy situations - stabbed & shot before 16 - but I have never ever felt anything like I have the past 2 days. I can promise I'll never be a perfect Christian, but I promise I'll do my best to keep getting back up. I've been thinking the past 3 hours how to tell my mother - she'll never believe this! I've been waiting all my life to hear her say she's proud of me. I don't know how to make her believe this. I guess I'm just going to have to SHOW her." [Editor note - this man shared the following Sat that his mother wrote that she was proud of him. Praise God!]
"I learned that God's bigger than all of us and what agape really means."
"Even incarcerated men like us can live a life of hope and love each other and be in service to Jesus."
"It's not how you start life but how you finish. We've decided as a family to do that with Christ Jesus."
"This wasn't just heart warming, it was life changing. I'm taking away a new life."
"The love was in your face."
"When I first arrived I felt I was growing spiritually and I found a lot of men here [this weekend] that were great examples of faith. A lot of humanity has given up. They've had faith in lots of things that have let them down. You all are proof that God has not given up on humanity."
"Kairos was a good experience, but it was more about this Jesus. He's a grand experience."
"You guys are about what you say you're about and that's priceless."
"Kairos showed me how to forgive people."
"I left in a giving spirit and asked Christians and non-Christians in my dorm if they'd like to meet and learn about the Word."
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