A little Book of Words

We have spoken with Steven yesterday to find him better than he has been over the last few days. He is currently still in lockdown but is due to be let out of his cell in the next 5 days.

During this time we have seen Steven's spirits tumble and so we wanted to help him as best we can. We are therefore compiling a little booklet of prayers, thoughts, words of encouragement etc so he can turn to them when he is in not so good a place.

This booklet will be sent out in the next 10 days, however, if you would like to contribute simply email us here with your words or reply to this blog. We will print and paste comments received into the book we are sending out.

Thank you!

Tough Times

Things are not going so well for Steven at the moment. For reasons we do not know he is currently locked in his cell with no bed, no food, no water and has been told he is to stay there for 3 months. We have written to the Foreign Office and are awaiting confirmation as to what exactly is happening and what we can do to sort the problem.

Unfortunately, Steven is not in the best of places and he was close to tears when I spoke to him on Saturday night. Michael, the man that was convicted with Steven has now been released and this has had a big impact on Steven's frame of mind since he has another year to serve. It's all very difficlut and made even more so by this sudden turn of events. Unfortunately Steven was very close to doing something silly and it is our payer that he stays strong in what is a very difficult situation. All he has is his bible. He has had to sell his phone to get food and water, so he is now borrowing a phone. We are in touch with him daily at the moment to try and keep him on a good level keel.

As we got to the end of our conversation last night I asked him not to do anything silly and that those at St. Boniface would pray for him, his response was 'I need the spirit of God inside me to stop me from doing something stupid'

We will be sending out some cash to him this week to help with food. We have not been sending cash recently due to ambiguity as to what is being purchased, however, we feel it is essential now so he can get through what looks like a very difficult time.

We will let you know how things develop.