Theprison was initially built for 150 men. It now holds 750! It doesn'thave cells like we are used to seeing in the States. The prison ismade up of two large areas. One area is where all the prisoners sleepon the floor together. The other area is one big courtyard. Prisonersare served one meal a day. Some of the prisoners who are morefortunate get more food delivered from family. The prisoners werevery friendly to me. As I walked in, many of the prisoners came up togreet me with big smiles on their faces. In the middle of thecourtyard is a small hut about 10ft x 15ft. It is the hut that isused by Rue for his church services. Rue led me in and in minutes thehut was packed. There were even men leaning in from the outside allaround the hut. They began by singing a couple of praise songs. Theyspeak (and of course sing) in Portuguese so I just clapped along andlistened. Although I couldn't understand the words, I could sensetheir true joy through their singing. After the songs, Rue introducedme and gave me the floor while he served as my translator. I toldthem that I could sense their joy. Then I talked about how theyreminded me of the apostle Paul, who also spent some time in prison.I told them that while they may be in prison, they have more joy thanthose outside of prison who don't know Christ as their Lord andSaviour. I encouraged them to be a witness to the other prisoners.When I finished, they thanked me for coming. Rue told me I did a goodjob. Praise God! It was an amazing experience and one of the coolestthings God has ever done through me.

Things back in Cape Town have been progressing as far asteaching media goes. I've challenged the students to start producingvideo announcements during chapel here at Cape Theological Seminary.Four students have already put videos together and two more are goingto do a video announcement soon. It serves as a good first project,something that they have fun with and also gives them practice withthe video production process starting from forming an idea, producingit, and showing the finished project to anaudience.

A missionary recentlycalled me to go to Rustenburg, South Africa to visit a TV studio thatAssemblies of God World Missions is trying to turn over to thenational church here in South Africa. The missionary who was incharge of it is leaving the country and is leaving the studio behind,so I was called up since I have a media background. I did a fullinventory of the equipment for insurance purposes and also determinedwhat equipment needs to be added in order to get the studio runningat full potential. The goal is to make the studio a tool for theInternational Assemblies of God (a South African national church) andnot just a tool of missionaries from the States.

Please be inprayer that the media teaching I am doing will be enough to keep themedia students going with the media after I leave in late July.Please pray for me also, as I have been afflicted with Montezuma'srevenge for that last two weeks. Along with the obvious discomfort,people are starting to ask if I'm losing weight. As you know, I'mskinny, so losing weight is not something I'm wanting to do.

Thanksagain for all your prayers and support. I recently received manyletters from you in the mail. Thanks so much for that. It's a greatencouragement to get letters from you. I couldn't be here if itwasn't for all of your support.

In Christ,
Ross