If for many slaves,  mercy year meant freedom, to king Nebuchadnezzar meant rehabilitation.

Tuesday, May 20 , five young volunteers from ELIM Pentecostal Church , Cluj- Napoca, together with our pastor Nicu Cristea, visited Aiud Penitentiary , where they met 18 young detainees.

The program started with a prayer and song " A pure heart ", song already learned from inmates . The song that became the anthem of our visits . Then Daniel Gog spokefrom book of Daniel 4:18-37 about a king who came to live with wild animals and about the pending mercy . To the end Nicu Cristea pastor explained the phrase "mine understanding returned unto me" which is repeated twice in the text read.

Our meeting ended with a time of socialization, in which inmates have asked us how they would be able to rehabilitate some relationships . Restoring relationships with God through "mind undestanding returning back" is what we want for them.

Anca Dregan