Author: Dan Wooding, Founder of
ASSIST Ministries
Publication: People United for
Religious Freedom
Date: March 10, 2002
URL: http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~dkost/muslim_prison.htm
Dr. Bob Morey, founder and president
of Faith Defenders based in Orange, California, has said that one of the
greatest mission fields in reaching Muslims in America is the U.S. Prison
System.
In a letter to his supporters, Dr.
Morey said, "They [the prisons] are filled with prospects from ethnic communities
and hurting people. While some leaders lament the heavy population of African-Americans
and other ethnic minorities in our prisons, Muslims rub their hands together
in glee at the prospect of converting them to Islam. And they're doing
it."
Dr. Morey went on to say, "In fact;
Muslim organizations from other countries are spending millions of dollars
each year to infiltrate our prisons and carry out a massive campaign to
convert Christians and non-Christians to Islam. They're setting up Islamic
Study Centers with extension activities in the prisons, and placing chaplains
in our penal system.."
Dr. Morey said that "a significant
number of our [U.S.] prisons already have Islamic chaplains and a plethora
of outreach programs...."
SADLY THEY ARE VERY SUCCESSFUL
He said that most evangelical Christians
and pastors, including prison chaplains, simply do not know how to witness
to and evangelize people who are "caught up" in Islam. "Estimates of conversions
in the U.S. run as high as 30,000 to 50,000 each year," said Dr. Morey.
"In fact, for several years, requests for our materials and training sessions
from prisons have been growing faster than our financial resources. It
is heartbreaking to have to say 'no' to some of these requests.
PROJECT TAKE BACK
Dr. Morey has announced the launch
of Project Take Back, which is a special program to go into prisons and
conduct training seminars for Christian inmates through the Chaplaincy
programs.
He said that in a seven-hour Project
Take Back seminar, "we can prepare these men to be effective evangelists,
witnessing especially to Muslims."
Dr. Morey has announced the launch
of Project Take Back, which is a special program to go into prisons and
conduct training seminars for Christian inmates through the Chaplaincy
programs.
He said that in a seven-hour Project
Take Back seminar, "we can prepare these men to be effective evangelists,
witnessing especially to Muslims."
Faith Defenders, the ministry of
Dr. Bob Morey, is a teaching ministry that equips Christians to define,
document, and defend the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was once
and for all delivered to the saints (Jude3).
For further information in Faith
Defenders, write: Faith Defenders, PO Box 7447, Orange, CA 92863, USA,
or check out their website at www.faithdefenders.com.
Dan Wooding is an award winning
British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma.
He is the founder and international
director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times). Wooding
is also a syndicated columnist, and was for ten years a commentator on
the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. Wooding is the author of some
40 books, one of which is "Blind Faith" which he co- authored with his
93-year-old mother Anne Wooding, who was a pioneer missionary to the blind
of Nigeria in the 1930s. Copies of this book are available from the ASSIST
USA office at PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126. His writings are
on the ASSIST Website at: www.assist- ministries.com
