Inmates Inspiring Stories, Inspiring Courage
Dear Inmate
Daily Courage wants to know your story.
Whether you are a prison inmate, former inmate, friend or family member to someone behind bars, or a Chaplain or volunteer who has seen first-hand the grace and mercy of God shining into the darkest corners of our correctional system, we want to hear from you. Your story may provide others with strength, encouragement, and inspiration during challenging times.
Has God's care and presence become real for you in prison or jail, and with your family? Has the Bible given you guidance and helped you see God at work?
Then you have something to share to give courage to other inmates, workers and their family. How, by sharing your stories of pain that turned to joy, if inside, outside or as a family member help give courage to others. Daily Courage is built on a worldwide community of Christian Inmates who share the same pain, the same loneness, their source of strength and their faith with one another.
Submitting
We only accept submissions from the original author of the article, by the copyright owner, can be submitted by a inmate representatives , to submit material here. By submitting material, you acknowledge that you are legally entitling Sharon Publishers to distribute the work and to allow it to be redistributed in other forms and printings.
1. Please let us know whether or not your piece is an original article submission. Sharon Publishers do not pay for submitted articles.
2. Please title your article submission. We may decide to change it at publication, but at least we'll have something off which we can work.
3. If your article submission is rejected, please don't stop sending. Acceptance depends on a variety of factors, including: correct content, strength and encouragement, God as the focus, that it be an experience out of your life, that it be 200 to 500 words.
4. All material must be ORIGINAL content written by the author, or rewritten for the author. We cannot accept articles that have been written by someone else. It is unacceptable to copy and paste an article/image that has been posted or printed somewhere else. All material can be presented in hand written format and mailed, faxed or by e-mail.
5. The author of the article once submitted, his/her authorship and giving Sharon Publishers the right to publish the article, and any images that go with the material submitted. All submissions become the property of Sharon Publishers and may be reproduced in any format with out notice to the authorship. Credit will always be given to the author.
6. Articles should be written in English, do not be concerned with grammar we will edit.
7. By-lines are given for articles, if you wish not, you must request that a by-line be not given,
.8. Articles submitted to Sharon Publishing should be written about OVER COMING STRUGALS WITH THE HELP OF GOD. DAT TO DAY STRUGGELS THAT YOU FACED AND A LESON LERANED AND A BLESSING RECIVED Of COURAGR and ENCOURAGMENT, we will not print anything else.
Where do I begin?
You begin in your own relationship with God, Christians believe God speaks to us and guides us as we study the Bible and pray and the events of our lives. Good devotional writing are closely tied to scripture, how God gave strength, blessed and how it has shed light on a specific situation. The protection and intervention of God. Good meditations make the message of the Bible come alive.
Good devotional writing is first of all authentic. It connects real events of daily life, in prison or out of prison and family member with the ongoing activity of God in your life. It comes across as the direct, honest statement of personal faith in Christ and how that faith grows through what you experienced and God has done for you. It is one believer sharing with another an insight or struggle about how God worked and what it means to live faithfully.
Second, good devotional writing uses sensory details - what color it was, how high it bounced, what it smelled like. The more sensory details the writing includes, the better. Though the events of daily life may seem mundane, actually they provide the richest store of sensory details. And when we connect God's activity to common things, each encounter with them can serve as a reminder of God's work.
Most Important, Visionalize sharing your blessing or your break through experance of hope with those that are with you and need your message, the thousands that will read your story and find comfort in Gods love and power.
Gospel Tracts for the lost
We are looking for stories from inmates and chaplins that can become tracts that will speak to the world, “do not come here,”” do not live my life,” this is what I had to come through to find Christ, you do not. Learn from me, the tracts can provide their message to young people, adults; it is a way for inmates to ministry to a lost world. We’ve all read Jesus’ command, "Go ye into the all the world and preach the gospel to every living creature." The problem is how to do it. They can through our Tract Publishing. If they can write it as a tract, or vey short stories. We are looking for grabbing stories which cannot help but to be read.
I’ve been told that tracts are a waste of time."
Of course, the best thing to do is to sit down and discuss Jesus, one on one, with every person who has a shred of spiritual interest. There is just one problem . . . we don’t know who they are! In order to find them, we’ve got to advertise.
Remember, not everyone is ready to think about the Lord at a given time. All too often, people have to go through some sort of personal crisis before they are ready to listen, and think about their soul. You can pass tracts around, all over the place, and you have a pretty good chance that some of them will end up in the hands of people who are ready to listen.
The toughest problem with witnessing
Christians whenever they try to witness to someone (to obey the Lord’s command) something would interrupt them. If you are in an office, the phone would ring. If you are in a home, the dog would bark, the kids would cry . . . it was always something! There has to be a way to reach people!