Radios
Reaching
Prisoners
By Kate Michel, Marketing &
Communications Director, Radio
4VEH/Resounding Hope
Photo: John Menefee prays
with the Haitian prisoners.
Photo courtesy of John Menefee
How can you get a pastor, a Bible teacher, a worship
leader, a sports commentator, a prayer warrior, a health
expert, and a best friend into a cramped prison cell to
minister to 15–20 men, 24 hours a day?
Through one solar radio.
Haiti’s prisons have been described as
some of the worst in the world—severely
overcrowded, cramped cells, and filthy
conditions.
30
Like many of the men who have had no
trial and are crammed into the cells at a
northern Haiti prison, Fito doesn’t know
how long he will spend there. But on June
21, 2013, he made a decision that changed