In 2012, we sent out about 28,000 Message books in 10 different languages to inmates in the United States. Along with the books, we also sent 627 Bibles, 1,400 CDs and DVDs of sermons, 54 prayer cloths, and numerous pictures and CTV publications. The most requested book was the prison ministry was, as usual, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages.
The US Postal Service is our only communication with the inmates, so we receive thousands of letters that ask for Message material. Every letter is answered and every request filled. Here are a few excerpts of those letters from prisoners.
As a little child I was exposed to Brother Branham’s Message. That was years ago. Since then it’s been trouble, alcohol, then drugs and finally bank robbery. I’ve been just setting here about a year, just going over in my mind how I got here. I looked back to when I went wrong and I didn’t know why, then I looked back to my childhood. I remembered a peaceful time of joy, not so much in me but around me. I strained to remember and it came to me, that sound, not the radio, but something else. I tried for days to remember that time. Then a fellow here, he’s always at peace. I told him how I was searching. He said he knew the feeling, perhaps this is what you are looking for, and handed me The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Well, I started reading and that’s the voice I remember from way back, the one I should have listened to. I got your address and was told that nothing has changed, you still have the same Messages and Jesus is still the same Christ. Now I am not going to wander away again. I ask that you and the Church would forgive me for my failure.
TX
I can’t tell you how much light your ministry brings into this dark place. Everyone that comes here wants to change. There’s only one way, and you are the only ones that care about us.
TX
Last saw my parents when I was 14 and have been on my own since. Been in and out of jail all my life and now am finishing up an 18 year stretch. I get released next year and I have no idea what I am going to do or how I will live. I have no idea how life is now, after 18 years. A friend said it’s rough but what about beyond that? I said, what do you mean? He gave me a little book that had your address on it. Friend I got big problems, I’m going into a world that I’m a stranger in, but someday I be going to a world I know absolutely nothing about. Please send me everything you can. I asked the chaplain and he even said that you can help me more than he can.
RI
I am a believer of this Message, and about 8 months ago I requested that you send me a prayer cloth. I received it together with a letter from Brother Branham. I want to say that that prayer cloth has an anointing on it that comes from God Almighty as I was healed of high blood pressure, cholesterol, problems of the lungs, kidneys, and thyroid, and can say that I am now free of all these sicknesses thanks be to God.
Many do not believe what Brother Branham says and have turned him down but to a simple uneducated person like me, I believe that God sent a prophet to prepare a bride.
TX
They came to Jesus in the garden
With a mob of angry men
Swords and staffs and harden hearts
Their unbelief betrayed their sin
They led him lamb-like to the slaughter
To a court, their lion’s den
No attorney representing
He stood alone no way to win
Their false witness lied about Him
With no mercy in their hearts
Swiftly bringing their conclusion
Guilty verdict was His part
Scourged and beaten, so mistreated
Whips and thorns applied their art
A cruel cross on His frail shoulder
The execution trail to start
A speedy trial for my Savior
No unbiased jury there
They falsified the facts about Him
No friendly witness anywhere
They crucified Him there at Calvary
On the cross, our sin to bear
His speedy trial, our salvation
So the we, His life could share
AR
I found a booklet here called God of this Evil Age; I never heard anything like this. I was raised Catholic went through all the denominations, studied and received many degrees and ended up with a masters in divinity. I still managed to get myself arrested many years ago. I’m approaching 60 now and I know I will soon be held accountable. My time should have been up a few years ago but I am still here and wondering why, so I thought I’d better start studying to be approved. By chance I picked up this booklet and started reading. Was kind of funny the way the wording was but something struck a chord. I read about gifts in the church but never saw any, but right before my eyes they were all manifesting in one man. The booklet explained my behavior and how I have been duped by Satan and wasted my years. All my degrees and the ego that goes with them were not about the Promise One but to my shame the Fallen One. Brother Branham has saved me from wasting my remaining years in pursuit further decline. I am now a sheep following the shepherd appointed and proven by God, as it was not a man that spoke these Words to me. I don’t know if I am saved but I do know that God has come to me at this time for a reason and I know I need a complete change and my focus has to be to God’s prophet and his Words.
CT
I have waited this time for years; this will be my last book request. I get out next month and will be going home. How I longed for this day and how I planned for this time. Every day I have read my Bible and read the prophet’s books and they kept me all this time. Now I am so anxious to get home because waiting for me at home is what I have wanted for years, Brother Branham’s voice on CD’s. How I wanted to hear the Voice of God all these years and now I will.
FL
I have been in prison for 20 years now and all that time I spent reading and studying the Bible. Over that time I felt many things were revealed to me that are not taught in the churches or schools, but I had no one to discuss these things with. Then, the other day I got the biggest shock of my life, I ran into an inmate that has been studying the Bible and your material for 30 years. I asked him a question and 45 minutes later we were still talking. He knew everything that I had a revelation of, plus he knew how, when and why. I was shook, I asked him where did this all come from? He reached and gave me a book of Ages. I said all of that came from this book? He laugh said, “there is over a thousand more, I have been 30 years and have just started.” Christian friends, I have a lot of reading to do, please send me a list.
CO