Come As You Are with Claude Williams -

Guest:

        Claude Williams

                     35 years in ministry

                     Master’s degree – Christian

Counseling

                     Doctorate in Theology

                     Assoc. Min. Community

Baptist Church of Greater Milwaukee

                     Youth Ministry since –

since 1986

                     Women Prison Ministry - since

1992

                     Juvenile Detention - since

1996

Topic:          Come As You Are          

When

a long-time inmate is released from prison, another sort of misery may be

looming. How is he or she supposed to cope? We asked minister Claude Williams,

who has been involved in youth and women’s prison ministries for decades. Among

the highlights: his conviction that giving your life to God is key—no need to

clean yourself up first.

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Highlights:

·       Bringing everything

even our mess to God

·       Lack of

humility

·       Prisoner’s

not knowing what to expect in world

·       Family

support and difficulty re-establishing those relationships

·       Church

support

Takeaways:

1.)           

Be Humble

2.)          

Due to time being imprisoned, lack of knowledge for

society norms for example knowledge of current technology

3.)          

Criminal record hindering their reputation and

progress

4.)          

Not knowing how to re-establish broken relationships

with family members especially with children