YOUR LEGACY

If you had a street or building named after you, eventually – sadly - no one will know who you were. Streets disappear, get renamed..buildings burn or are torn down. It is the effect of time on material legacies. Time simply erases them. 

What is your life worth? What is the money and time we have truly worth? What would it mean if you had 10 people or a thousand at your funeral? These existential questions tend to rattle around in our minds and become louder and more pronounced. As we age as we seek to define the meaning and worth of our own existence here. We can measure our income, the square footage of our house, count our friends and other measures of worldly “success.” But, as we have learned from David in our Bible, these measures have little true meaning. Like the biggest fish a person has ever caught, the brand clothing we wear, the things that were once new that are now old, we begin to realize the futility of valuing material possessions or life experiences as we consider what we leave behind once we depart this world for another.

Hopefully, we think about the effect we have had on others. Hopefully we can see this in the present and filtering down in time after we are departed from this world. Our souls long for a lasting mark, some sign recognized or unrecognized but attributable to our lives evidencing our positive impact on this world.

The chapel project can become part of a personal life legacy.

Consider this:

We can build a church outside of the prison environment for 300 people. That church may serve perhaps 1200 people in the next 20 years both in bringing souls to our Lord or helping its members grow. It is certainly worthy of being built! Consider a prison chapel of the same size. Numerically, the current chapel project will potentially serve twenty thousand men over the next 20 years. 

Many men will meet our Lord for the first time in this chapel. Lives will change. How many children and families will be thus affected as well? How many decades will these changes reverberate through time? The answer is - all the way to the second coming. The legacy of a prison chapel can be nearly immeasurable. God wants to be invited to move his Spirit in dark places. A prison chapel invites the Spirit’s light to penetrate and illuminate in places that have often never seen this light. A new chapel sized to serve the men seeking a better way is a clear invitation to the Holy Spirit to come and change these thousands of lives.

For every man changed, the people he touches are changed. Families improve, marriages survive and thrive, and children grow up knowing the Lord when a man carries the Spirit outside with him. The community is affected as a man who perhaps previously was a negative impact on the community, now has new potential to add positively to that very same community. Around 20,000 men will leave this prison in the next 20 years. What kind of men will they be?

If you are a part of this, this becomes part of YOUR legacy and that is undeniable. Please join us. Make the North Central Unit’s chapel part of your legacy. It is a blessing to have such an opportunity to reach so many lives. There simply is no better place to build a chapel than a prison. Certainly this chapel will serve well beyond 20 years. What is built here will set the standard for the next chapel project in ADC, and the next…and so on.

Join us and help build a standing testimony to your faith and LEGACY!