The letters were written during the instructional weekend held one week after the Kairos four day weekend.  The men had had the opportunity to go back out into the world for a week and then were allowed to write these letters.

All these letters are addressed to Dear Brother and Sister in Christ, unless the salutation is shown. The men were asked not to thank the sponsor or the team, but instead to thank God. Many were unable to keep from thanking someone.

One letter will be mailed to each financial sponsor. I have tried to keep the wording and spelling as they wrote them, but my typing is poor and I fear I may have added to the mistakes and corrected others. I have left off the names to preserve their privacy.

They are in no order thus the best one might be the next to last one! Please remember that some of these men can barely read or write.

My expectations were? (what ever happens to go with the flow?

Then it hits you the felling of reality am I really happy

What did god really mean to me I know about god

(but didn't apply my knowledge about in one ear and out the other ear)

Then Kairos went to my heart people I never met said hi I am praying for you I love you at first I was seared tried to play the tough roll being in prison that I am then I see it is not just a wipe off smile it was for real they made me smile I felt good about my self I wanted to feel like that all the time and I am on the road to receive that felling through god permently always and forever

To put it blunt! Kairos put a smile and a happy felling I had thought I lost for ever thank you god to have put me in the place and the time where Kairos could bring you to me.

I just want to express my feelings about the Kairos weekend. I felt love, joy and happiness knowing that I have Jesus in my life now. As time goes on, I hope that Jesus grows bigger in my heart.

Hope that you will continue to pray for me and give me encouragement not to fall away from Jesus.

Thank you for supporting me.

I can not read or write very good so one of the Kairos team members has written for me

I would like to take this time to thank you for every thing that you have given. I first met the lord Jesus Christ when I was 24 years old I would like to one day meet you to thank you in person for helping me in that meeting. I got a lot of agape Love, as well as unconditional love. I have gotten a lot of love, joy and happiness out the Kairos program and will continue to grow with Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Pleas pray for me as I will pray for you

PRAISE GOD

I Thank God for giving us brothers in Christ that really care for us brothers in white as well as brothers & sisters behind bars & I want yall to know yall are in my prayers as well as youll family & friends for all the sponsors God has provided us.

I would like to thank you with all my heart. It means that with your help i will be able to get a lott closer walk with Jesus Christ in my life. will pray for me and my hole family. I dedicated my life to Jesus this past Saturday during the walk. I am leading my cellie to the Lord over the past few days. I have a real family in Christ that i need in my life. I love you very much.

To my anonymous financial sponsor,

I was extremely blessed to be a part of this walk. I have never felt love in here from anyone. Even in church there has been nothing to compare with the time and effort that I was shown during the weekend.

They say that I am not allowed to thank you. Please believe that I enjoyed the weekend and it wouldn't have be possible without your help. I am a Christian now and I have been strengthened by the love I have been shown

May the blessing poor upon you for the blessings you've given myself, the work God is doing through you is making the light shine in my life, I never that God's people loves so much as to what this Kairos walk has shown me. It's a blessing to have you as a Sister of Brother in the Body of Christ and it's a blessing to receive the love you've given. God Bless you Sponsor and my prayers are with you. I pray that I'm able to be there doing the sharing the moments and the last days with our Lord sisters and brothers.

I love you,

God bless you,

I had a grate time here at Kairos I had such a good time that I gave my life to God I was lost before I came to Kairos but now I'm found you will be in my prayers I wont to thank god for everything He done I'm glad to have you praying for me

This weekend was one I will never forget. I came to this weekend thinking that I was already a Christian than it wouldn’t change me in the littlest. But you know it did. I found out that I wasn’t living for Christ like I was supposed too. Now after being on this weekend I’ve committed my life to Christ. I know that I’ll have short comings, but Christ will be there for me. After being on this weekend I realize that there are more people who love me than I could ever hope for. I want to give all thanks and praise to the Lord for people like you and all the team members on this Kairos walk #6 for backing me all the way. Without the volunteers standing behind me I probably wouldn’t have made it through the walk. But it gave me a wonderful spiritual experience that will follow me for the rest of my life. Also a thank you goes to your for being there for me this is a thank you that goes to Jesus for you

How this wonderful opertunity of being in Christ affected my? Well it’s been a challenge for me. The devil has really been dying to get me back to follow him & I’ve been rebuking him by the name of Jesus Christ. I’m constantly on a misson & I’m to make a difference. I’m going to stay on my mission with Christ’s help

May God bless you and pray for me to stay constantly in the Word

I had a really good time. God blessed me and I would like to say if it wasn’t for I would not had come back to Christ. But I gave my life to Christ on Sunday and again I give God all the glory. It is has been hard this last week but God wont let us be broke.

I praise God for your help and support of Kairos six and I did learn more about Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. I seen love from God through Kairos because for the last 15 years I been in prison I did not think that Church care about inmates. I don’t have to be alone no more.

I am thankful to God for your support in this four day walk. I was able to grow closer to God and to my surprise I been growing closer on a daily basis since. May God bless your days from here out as he is blessing me.

I would like to take this time to express my heart felt appreciation for every thing that you all have done for all of us in sponsoring Kairos # 6. All of you have touched my heart & my soul in your treating us to all your gracious gifts and prayers for us. I had forgotten that there are people in the world who really love God and care about us and are willing to make sacrifices on our behalf in His name. You will be in my prayers, prayers that now matter.

I want to thank God for giving you the courage to put your trust in God. It was a blessing to have felt all at one with God’s people in the new kingdom to come. I am dying to see you there, I do not know your name but in heaven you will walk up to me (a smiley face) or I’ll meet you halfway. I didn’t give my life to God during the weekend, I had too many issues to work through, but I did yesterday. I gave the acts of homosexuality back to Satan. I would rather be with a crown of glories above my head. I love God most of all for you. I thank him most of all for you. If it was not for your love of God it wouldn’t have happened. You answered a lot of unanswered prayers and healed a lot of broken hearts and saved a lot of prodigal sons by your support.

I do know that God is great. I am a living testimony. Several tribulations tried to suffocate my. I have cut my hair and I refuse to be called "girl" anymore but the big changes are inside I knew God was love because you who don’t know me have shown me love. I read Psalm 37 I will remain strong and away from homosexuality but I really need your prayers to help me in my new walk with the Lord.

I was very blessed during the Kairos 6 last weekend because of this walk I feel a stronger conviction on my life to totally surrender my life to obey Christ not just part of it or the easy part. My life was forever changed because of this experience. I have a very big family out there, but for five years things changed a little and not I have a very big family in here to show and receive love. Because of your obedience to server Christ not only my life is changed but the ones I show love to will be changed too, kind of like a domino affect. So I want to ask you to keep doing the Lord’s work it is blessed and you will be blessed and those who are blessed by me will be blessed.

God’s army has come to take back what the devil stole from me. I pray that God is moving in a mighty way. What a blessing God has restored upon us his moving so spectacular in my life has done a mighty work in me. He has shown me that I have a true friend in Christ. I love you for that. What a mighty God we serve to have people like you bring that message to me. I keep praising God that in spite of all my troubles He is still interested in me. I thank my new family with all my heart and I will try to keep my head in heave so that my feet will follow his path.

I would just like to say that Kairos has meant so much to me and for the 1^st time in my life I have accepted Jesus Christ as my lord and savior.

You see I was never brought up to know the Lord and for the last 18 years my religion was Satanism. Kairos has changed me forever, love is stronger than hate, but I never seen that before, I always seen hate win. This ain’t to be easy, I thought I gave it all to satan, I done very bad things in satan’s name now I got to trust God to be stronger than I know anything to be. Please pray for me and ask others to pray because I got to fight something I know and I know it stronger than me. I got faith but I got fear too.

My weekend was grate. I was grateful that you gave your time and money, I know that what you gave was a small fraction compared to that Christ to free me from slavery.

I just wish to let you know how special my weekend was. I was a Christian who had fallen into unbelief in that I felt that God not longer cared about me as an "individual." I was recently transferred to this unit to attend university and not have anyone here to help me in the troubles here. Now though Kairos I have a family to help me. I still struggle with this unblief, (as well as the addiction which put me in here) but at least I now have a family to help me in it as my natural family have all deserted me. It’s good to know that I have someone who can help me in my attempt to have a "closer walk with thee."

Due to the four day Kairos walk that I had a privlege to attend, I’ve been able to commit myself to a walk with Christ.

I had been struggling for a little over a year to get on track with Christ, but due to the people I worked with here, I wouldn’t allow myself to walk with Christ, I thought I was having more fun with them, who weren’t confessing Christians and I felt I wouldn’t be accepted by the in crowd. So I was walking a daily path of sin. After Kairos four day walk, I didn’t care if that group accepted me or not, I wore my cross and Christianity proudly even around the group and I couldn’t believe it, they still accept me, even though we have much in common to talk about anymore, but they want to know what is different about me. They want to buy my cross so they can have what I got. I told them they don’t want my cross they want the One who was on it. I said I paid for my cross with my tears and my surrender and they can have what they want if they want to pay that price. I said the cross wasn’t magic but His love does work wonders. They don’t want to hear that, but I’m still hanging around them hoping that I will rub off on them or at least one of them, and bring them to the way of Christ.

I am 30 years old and I’ve been here in prison 4 times, and the way I look at it, Jesus said that he came not to save the saved but to save the sinners and bring them to God and what better place to find sinners who have not yet come to Christ than in prison. Let me tell you I have my work cut out for me here. I can’t wait to start, if I don’t see you here then I will see you in heaven.

I appreciate for sponsoring me. I that my God and Lord Jesus Christ that you’re caring about through your support and love. Most of all for your love.

I was a Christian, at least as much as you can be alone, when I came to Kairos but I learned more about love in a way that I can’t explain. I even learned how to share my love to others that I did not even know how to share. I know love now, and I now have love in my heart. I had Christ in my heart before, but I couldn’t express it the way I really know I should from my heart. I’m a very quiet person, I am not much of a talking person. I guess this is why I didn’t share the love I did have like I know I should have. But since I been in Kairos, I can say I can share my love to the full. I do want to say this, I love you from my heart. I also want to share this with you. I’m going to join the Kairos volunteers here now with all that I’ve got and if I get out of here I promise that I will be a Kairos volunteer. I will share what I have been given so I will be more like He wants.

I know that personal thanks is not allowed in the Kairos program! But I come to you from my heart. So I wish to thank our Lord and savior for allowing you, a follower of his to reach out to support me a man in prison suffering to pay a debt for wrong I committed.

The 4 day walk was beautiful! (amen) I am still growing from the experience which can not be explained. When people ask me what Kairos is all about, all I can tell them is "love"

I do not know who you are, however I am a firm believer in angles and you are one or maybe the hands and feet of Jesus. Considering that the program says about thanks all I can say is God is indeed Great, and I pray that those who follow him will be richly rewarded. I will keep you in prayer.

Your time and support was greatly appreciated. The walk was wonderful, and I am growing more and more daily. I do plan to carry on in this program once I am released to the outside of these walls. This walk has helped me to see how I can connect to the vine that I need to carry my preaching to others. You shall be in my prayers. God bless you and every walk from here on. I thank God, Father Son and Holy Ghost as for you and your time spent for me.

I truly hope and pray that by the time you receive my letter it will find you and your family in the very best of health.

Now as for Kairos 6, words could not tell you the blessing I’ve received the weekend of 4/13. I have been in God’s living Word, a Christian, but the times I was thinking I was at my best I come to find out I wasn’t there at all. I really didn’t let people be themselves, I wasn’t at all loving. I thank God for working in all your lives so that you can show me how to work with others. I want to give back the love that has been give to me.

Like I said words could not tell you what a blessing you’ve been. So with this I truly pray that the Lord "keep his loving and blessed hands on you and what you’re doing for people like me."

I have good walk gave my life to God it was best time I have in prison that people like you card about us God loves you and me one day will see each other in better place. I swear to be a Kairos member for the rest of my life mybe one day I will help people just like you. You like God with family. I will be in prayer for you and all Kairos brothers and sisters love you all ways my new family take care of your self God bless you.

How are you? I want to express to you my experience this Kairos weekend. When I cam into the chapel this weekend, I had not idea what to expect besides good food. When the letters came and I read them, tears flowed freely from my eyes. I now know what it means to be loved. I had not know what that was. I am truly grateful to have been selected to participate in this wonderful thing called agape love. I have learned that God love me and that He is always here for us. I hope that I get the chance to be a steward at one of the tables in an upcoming Kairos weekend as a way to put back some of what I got out of it. I will share it with all others until then. God bless you in all that you do.

I would like to express to you that during the Kairos weekend I experienced something I will never forget. It was mind boggling I found a lot of joy and most of all it gave me the chance to be able to form a friendship with God! The unconditional out pouring of love I received opened my eyes and I have opened my heart to be guided by God on the right path. My prayers will be with you.

Thank you is inappropriate right? Even thought that is the 1^st thing my heart would wish to express towards you. So other than it that way I would like to express my gratitude. I am 23 days from release and this was a very positive influence on my faith in Christ and the love from people of faith. I know what I have to do now, I have to connect with people like you when I get out. I need to be prepared to give back what I have received and I thank you for showing me how it needs to be and what path to take.

I would like to express my feeling which were possible due to your help. My weekend was very joyful, and more assuridly amazing, I never cried so much, felt so much love, and knew that God, was so present, I would like to assure you that your finacial investment and prayers were not done in vain by no means. I am Puerto Ricians and 25 years old from San Antonio and I am thankful for people who have faith in the word such as yoursleves. Once again thanks be to God.

My walk hear this past weekend was great. Before the walk I felt like no one cared. I thought I was all alone. My family stopped communicating with me and threw me to the dogs. But this past weekend changed my way of thinking. God showed me that not only does He love me but there is people in the flesh that loves me through him.

Also before this weekend I was beginning to harden my heart but God helped me and is showing me how to love not only myself but others. I wish I could call you by name so I could pray for you by name, I don’t, so I will just say God be with you and keep you safe.