I was the Kairos leader of #115, back a number of years ago, 7 years, I think. We were doing introductions of everybody, team and candidates. This one candidate gets up, and announces his name, “Dubs”, and then proceeds to say:” I hate Christians! I hate Christianity!! If I knew this was a Christian program, I wouldn’t have come! But now that I’m here, I’m going to disrupt your program, and eat all your food!!! Actually, I’d seen worse, and I wasn’t so bothered by him for some reason. The program went on, and he was a little belligerent from time to time, the rest of Thursday. Friday rolls around, and then program is going fairly well for the most part. As we came to the end of the day, around 5:00, we discovered we had screwed up, with the schedule, and we had skipped a whole section, and we could not go back!! We couldn’t go forward, as that would mess up the schedule for the next day. And we couldn’t send them back to their cells, as count hasn’t cleared!! Someone suggested I get up and do my testimony, it’s a pretty good God story, but I didn’t want to make Kairos about me. But it was either that or sing for the next hour, and nobody wanted to do that!! So, I get up to the mic, and start telling my story. Dubs was at the back table, and right in the middle of my speaking, he yelled out something, and interrupted me. I am an ex con. I still demand the respect of other convicts, and I’m not going to let you get away with disrespecting me!! I stopped right there, and stepped up and said: “What did you say?!” Silence! I moved closer, and asked again: “What did you say?” Still moving closer to him, I could see his head hanging down, his legs trembling, and he muttered to me: “What do I have to do?” I asked him if he wanted to accept Jesus as his Savior, and he said again: “What do I have to do?” I reached out and grabbed his hand, lifted him up. His legs should not have been able to hold him, they were shaking so bad!! I led him to the center of the room, shared with him a few things, and then asked him to repeat after me, a saving prayer. The room was void of a single sound, other than Dub’s voice,(and maybe a few thousand angels wings!) As this high priest of the Odinist cult, voice trembling, knees shaking, bowed his knee to the Lord of Lords!! He got done, and just grabbed me, (he was a big guy!) , and just started balling his eyes out, on my shoulder! The back of my shirt was soaked with his tears, the front of my shirt, was soaked with mine!! The room was stone silent, and this went on for a few minutes! Then everybody applauded as we pried Dubs off of me, and one of the pastors, took him around the corner to talk with him about what had just happened to him. It was the most amazing thing I have seen in a long time!!! He is now one of the pillars in the chapel, over on the Echo yard, and I have adapted him, as my son, He and I are linked forever, thru the most amazing moment I can ever recall at a Kairos event. And people ask why I go to the prison! I go for the miracles!!!
