How CLI Got Started in the Philippines

Launching CLI’s outreach in the Philippines has been nothing short of a divine “shove” from behind to move. Through a partnership with a missions agency, CLI made contact with a local Filipino pastor named Jonnel Suyat. Among his church, there was a former inmate who was burdened about reaching the men and women in the nearby jails.

I Decided to Kill Myself

My name is Richard Joe Lee. I have been in and out of prison my whole life. About two months ago I came back to Van Buren County Jail. While I was in the holding cell, I decided to kill myself. I began braiding the towel I had torn up when a guard came by and told me about Jesus. I began to feel conviction. As I lay in an empty cell, I looked under the bed and there was a Bible turned to Romans 8:28.