Weekend of Champions Photo album
It starts with a coordinators meeting. Putting together 500 teammates with a dozen prisons in less than a day. It all works out.
Platform guest bring out the inmates so that we can build a relationship. The harcore will not interact unless there is something in it for them. this is the Verna Law Band
This is a little bit bigger so you can see that this picture was taken inside the Sate of Texas Death Row. Bill Glass has a tremendous reputation within the prison community which allows us this level of access..
Tanya Crevier can spin 10 basketballs at one time. She also has a greaat heart of the inmates.
This is another extrodinary example of how far we will go to get their attention. This is Tino Wallena of the world renoun Flying Wallendas.
Fundamentally it is about life-on-life interactions. People who are willing to spend their own time and money to meet with people that society wants to forget.
I'm never sure who receives more from one of these weekends, those that recieve or those that give. I think the givers get the most our of it.
Many of the people inside are not that different from our friends and neighbors. Sometimes the difference in their lives and ours are only a few seconds. If things had gone just a little different then they did, we might have found ourselves in the same position.
At the end of the weekend we meet to relive what we have seen God do and how it has affected all of us, inside and out.
Brenda Harp came all the way from California to spend time with the inmates at Baldwin State Prison
Another moment from Hancock State Prison on the Milledgeville weekend, September 2007