Police Academy

This year, Detective Kelly Saap joined our annual Bible conference coming from the Kansas City Police Department. One of our Bible Institute graduates, David, has been ministering in the prisons as well as to the police, military, and fire department. This year, David was able to provide a program in which we were able to speak to the police academy recruits. The commanders allowed us 1.5 hours with his recruits. In all, there were 473 recruits in attendance. Kelly quickly was able to capture their attention with his experience as a previous soldier in the US Army as well as 17 years of police experience. After a few minutes of talking shop, Kelly switched to the spiritual talking about what it truly takes to lead and be a "man of war" spoken of in 1 Chronicles. After speaking for about 30 minutes, Kelly then did some basic defensive moves on the largest recruit in attendance.
I was able to conclude the session speaking from Proverbs 14:34, "righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." I brought the issue of why police officers are even needed - only because people choose to sin. I then told the recruits that as police officers, they would either use their position to help solve the problem or they would use their position to be more of a problem. Both messages were very well received - the gospel was given, the word of God of preached, and the Spirit of God moved in the hearts of men and women. In the midst of our annual Bible conference at Kafulafuta - it was fun to get away and minister in a different way to the recruits and leadership of the police academy!











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