“I listen to this program every week. I have a radio in my room, and I do not change the station…Every day I’m tuned in.

“I’ve been an inmate in the penitentiary for six years…But here in this place, I met the Lord, and now I live happily because Jesus changed my history.

“Inside the penitentiary we have a congregation of 300 gathered inmates. At first, we had nowhere to meet, but after much prayer with my companions, the Lord provided us with a place, and now we have a room where we gather to praise God and study his Word. I play the guitar, and now I’m in the praise group.

“Today I have light behind bars.”

- A Paraguayan listener of Women of Hope in Guarani

*originally found in The Heartbeat, Vol 23 No 1