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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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God is all about transformation. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” God loves second chances. Jermaine Wilson had spent four years in prison by the time he was 19. His dad had been to prison. His brother had been to prison, and his sister had been to prison. Jermaine’s search for love led him to earn acceptance through criminal activity and gang involvement. But it was a trap. He wanted a different life yet there seemed to be no way out. How does a gang member, drug dealer and prison inmate become the mayor of Leavenworth, Kansas? That’s the incredible God-story of Jermaine Wilson. Today, Jermaine is the mission ambassador for Prison Fellowship.
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0:00.0 | Page 211 of the unfolding is the story of Jermaine Wilson. |
0:04.3 | I'm sitting in my cell locked down 23 hours a day, and I'm thinking, how did I get here? |
0:11.1 | I realized I couldn't undo what had been done, but I had an opportunity to break the cycle of crime and incarceration and poverty in my family. |
0:21.2 | God's story has been unfolding. |
0:24.6 | Since the beginning of time. |
0:27.8 | He invites you to be a part of it. |
0:33.1 | Another page in the unfolding. |
0:37.2 | Hi, this is Meredith Foster. God is all about transformation. |
0:42.0 | Second Corinthians 517 says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. |
0:47.8 | The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come. God loves second chances and making us into something new. Germain Wilson had spent |
0:56.7 | four years in prison by the time he was 19. His dad had been to prison. His brother had been to prison. |
1:02.0 | His sister had been to prison. Germain's search for acceptance had led him to earn that through |
1:07.1 | criminal activity and gang involvement, but it was a trap. He wanted a different life, |
1:12.0 | yet there seemed to be no way out. So how does a gang member drug dealer prison inmate become |
1:18.0 | the mayor of Leavenworth, Kansas? That is the incredible God's story of Jermaine Wilson. |
1:25.4 | I come from a beautiful mother. |
1:29.6 | Her name was Savannah Wilson. |
1:32.8 | My mother was 15 years old when she had her first child. |
1:35.9 | She dropped out of school to raise my older sister. |
1:38.8 | By the age of 21, my mother had four children. |
1:41.1 | She had two girls and two boys. |
1:43.6 | I was the fourth child that my mother had. She didn't have any education, |
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