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A PRISONER NO LONGER

Charles Masuku was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He did not know that God would use that imprisonment to bring him true freedom. Every Thursday afternoon African Bible College students spread out across the capital city of Malawi with the Good News of Jesus Christ. The "Prison Ministry" has been one of the prime targets of that outreach. When Dr. Tom Kay, pastor of the Aliceville Presbyterian Church, heard about this, he sent dozens of 'wind up" radios that required no batteries to be distributed to those prisoners. Dr. Palmer Robertson, an ABC professor at the time, headed up that prison ministry. As Charles Masuku tells the story, he said that Dr. Robertson one day gathered the prisoners around him and clearly showed them the way to salvation in Jesus Christ. After that, Charles began to listen to ^*BIBLE COLLEGE BY RADIO. Over the next three years he completed 47 of the books taught by BIBLE COLLEGE BY RADIO, receiving certificates for having successfully done all the correspondence lessons.

Now out of prison, on Saturday Charles came to the African Bible College campus in Lilongwe to take the ENTRANCE EXAMINATION and to apply as a prospective student for the upcoming year. His new found freedom in Christ has opened doors and opportunities for him that could never have happened without that small radio and the Word preached by those students on the prison outreach team. Charles Masuku is a prisoner no longer.

Dr. Robertson is now in Uganda and continuing with the prison ministry there. Jay Stoms has taken on the responsibility for the prison outreach. PRAY that the messages over those little radios from RADIO ABC and the testimonies of the African Bible College students on those Thursday afternoons will continue to set the prisoners FREE!

*BIBLE COLLEGE BY RADIO, produced by Jack and Nell Chinchen, are Bible teaching programs that have been aired in every English speaking country in Africa over the past 30 years. Free correspondence lessons are sent to interested listeners and certificates are given to those who complete the lessons successfully. Presently, these programs are broadcast over ELWA in Monrovia, Liberia and over African Bible College's three radio stations in Malawi and Uganda. If you would care to participate in this vital avenue for getting the Gospel out across this vast continent of Africa, donations may be sent to African Bible Colleges, P.O. 103; Clinton, MS 39060 and designated for BIBLE COLLEGE BY RADIO.