Watch rival gang members put their lives on the line as they get baptized in a maximum security prison!
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Dozens of rival gang members were caught on camera risking their lives by participating in a mass baptism held in a maximum security prison in Texas.
The inmates were offered the chance to turn their life around and accept the Lord into their lives by the Gateway Church, a Lone-Star-State-based congregation with some 30,000 attend.
According to Fox News, Robert Morris, the church’s pastor, announced earlier this year that they would be opening a new branch. What no one expected, however, was that they would offer their services in the Coffield Unit, a Texas prison.
“At Gateway Church, we’re all about people because God is all about people,” the pastor allegedly claimed.
“Many of the men and women inside prison have been forgotten by society, but we want them to know we love them and God loves them, and they are our brothers and sisters in Christ.”
As Mr. Morris went on to reveal, the church had been working on the expansion for quite some time and even partnered with G3 Prison Ministries to achieve their goal.
“The launch of our Coffield Campus has also prompted many families who attend our church to, for the first time, share their need for resources and support as loved ones of someone incarcerated,” ex-con Stephen Wilson of G3 added.
“Sometimes the offender needs to hear someone say, ‘I know you messed up, but I still love you.’”
In addition to their teachings, one of the Gateway’s goals is also to reconcile people to people.
“These guys from two different gangs professed the same Lord and were baptized in the same water together and they walked out together, guards not holding onto their arms anymore because God had done something in their life,” Niles Holsinger, Gateway pastor to Coffield prison, said in an interview with Fox News.
“Never one time in my life have I felt like my decision to follow Christ has put me in danger or discomfort. To see them walking out trembling, they have maybe been afraid for their life not knowing what would happen, but they did not regret the decision they had just made. That was mind-blowing to me.”
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