In the February 1992 issue of the Journal, an article entitled "A Workshop on: Our brothers and sisters in prison" appeared. Being new to Christian Science, I was so inspired to see how Christian Scientists were reaching out and bringing the truth into these institutions around my country. The article planted a seed in my thought, and I started checking to see if any of the Christian Science churches in my area were involved in this activity. I found that the committee on institutions in my state had been disbanded, and there were very few branch churches devoted to this work.
I prayed about the proper steps to take in this direction and decided to present the idea of donating literature to the prisons at the next board meeting of my branch church. I knew that this was the right step when on the day of the meeting I received my Christian Science Sentinel in the mail with a wonderful testimony of a man in prison who had picked up a Sentinel from a literature distribution box. This had, in turn, led him to become a student of Christian Science, and it had changed his life.
The board agreed to allow me to write and see if I could get one of the correctional institutions in our area to accept some Christian Science literature. The second institution I wrote to welcomed for their library a copy of Science and Health and of Prose Works, both by Mary Baker Eddy, and issues of the Sentinel and The Christian Science Monitor.
