Restoration Prison Ministry: June 2025 Newsletter

Jun 7

Written By Sheryle Cruse

June 5, 2025

Dear Faithful Servants,

I waited until I returned from the Northwest to update you on God’s Wonder-working Power.

Love-Hope-Restoration-Healing and Forgiveness

I entitled this story of the things God did on this trip. Jesus did the above five things in multiple souls in the Northwest.

I will take you on a day-by-day track of how the Lord worked His Wonder-working Power.

The first night, after my flight arrived on Wednesday, May 28th, I preached in the church that my wife and I and several other couples pioneered back in 2007.

The theme of LifeHouse Church back then, though the name is a little different now, uses the above reference to God and His ability and power to make change in lives of people who are undone.

It is His love, hope, restoration, healing and forgiveness that the Lord did back in 2007, that exists today.

The first night in this church, beyond the souls saved and the backsliders returning home to Jesus, a miracle happened.

A bonified, true deliverance.

The Pastor of this church has a son-in-law who is married to his oldest daughter. This young 25-year-old man’s father, throughout his entire life, would never go to church. His mom is saved, and his father never came with his family.

He is a good dad but not saved.

While in his office near the church, this young man called his father, like he has for years, and asked again while I was in his office studying for my sermon.

His dad said no.

During the worship service later, his mom is there, along with around twenty-five other folks.

During the last song, his father walked in and sat in the back of the church.

Miracle Number One.

The son is amazed he showed up and, it just so happens that my message this night is called “Like Father, like Son.”

Coincidence?

No, of course not.

I preached the message the Lord had given me and did the altar invitation this way.

“If you have never received Jesus into your heart, and you sense the Holy Spirit tugging at your heart, you come first.”
Several men and women came first.

Then I spoke again, “If you are here and you have known Jesus at one time, and you have allowed something to come in between you and the Lord, or you need to affirm, again, your Salvation, you come now.”

Several folks came for that.

Then I said, “And if you are a dad, any kind of dad, whether you feel you are a good dad, or a stepfather, or a dad who feels you are a bad dad, you come. It would be my honor to pray for you, Sir. Please do not let pride, or fear, or anything else stand in the way of me praying for you.”

All the men who are dads, came.

Suddenly, I looked and saw this young man I spoke of, standing at the altar with his estranged Daddy.

(Remember, he has never been in a church in his life).

When I said the sinner's prayer for those getting saved, the father prayed out loud.

Not in a whisper, but out loud with tears streaming down his face.

Not only him, but his 25-year-old son, now holding hands with his father who is being born again.

Wow.

Only Jesus could do this.

Restoration, Healing, and Forgiveness.

Three of the above words which this church was founded on.

Only Jesus and His mercy can make this happen.

“Like Father, like Son” is a reality for one young man and his father.

Now the father can walk in the footsteps of his Christian son, and side by side they can live in peace, instead of sorrow.

The young son and his mother, have witnessed with their own eyes, filled with tears, the power of God, healing a family, one soul at a time.

Love and Hope was poured out on this family, finishing the words that this church stands for, all in one evening in a church in Vancouver, Washington.

Truly, Lifehouse Fellowship, proved that in Jesus Christ, there is Life, in the House of God.

Santiam Prison-Salem, Oregon

I preached a message about “Identity Theft of the Soul” which refers to how life and its trials, tend to strip away our identity in Christ at times.

It also means for the prisoners who do not know Jesus as Savior; that their true identities are not the men in this prison chapel who came to prison, but the men who Jesus can heal and save, who will each have a new identity.

A new creation in Christ. A new man. A new identity.

Several men came to the service, approximately 40 men of all ages.

Ten souls came forward to be saved, and I prayed for one man, in particular. I had another fellow volunteer and his wife with me, who I have ministered with for over 23 years. He and his wife were the ones who the Lord had me turn over the prison ministry to in 2007 when I left to live in Texas.

Both of us laid hands on him, and I spoke these specific words to him from the Holy Ghost.

“It is time, Young Man, for you to take off the spiritual boxing gloves you wear and stop beating the daylights out of yourself. You have been struggling and feeling full of guilt, shame, and condemnation because of your time in prison. Tonight is the night you allow the Holy Ghost to untie those gloves and discard them forever.”

He wept and wept, and put his face on my left shoulder, until my shirt was soaked with tears of deliverance.

Once he was done weeping, we prayed for him, and he left that chapel a new man.

He was already a Christian, but now he has the true joy of the Lord Jesus, by letting go of his past, and seeking the Lord for his future.

Only Jesus can orchestrate these Divine Appointments.

Oregon State Correctional Institution-Salem, Oregon

I arrived at this prison with the same couple I was with last night. They will be with me the entire 1,400 miles that we will travel all over Oregon and Idaho.

This prison is already experiencing revival, before I arrived.

I have been preaching in this prison, along with all the Oregon prisons for almost 38 years now.

It is like coming home in a way for me.

My message this night was called “Our Domino Effect.”

Based on our decisions in life, I used the domino as a picture of dominoes falling on to one another, and then another falls, and so on.

Lined up for as far as the eye can see; they all fall until they all stop.

You know the picture.

I said, “A good decision, causes the dominoes to fall, and the results are positive for you, and those around you. If they fall because of a bad decision, then the opposite happens. Chaos, heartache, and full-blown, catastrophic results. Once they start falling and toppling onto each other, we cannot stop them, until they finish their movement. The problem is, they do not hurt us alone. They damage those around us, even the ones we love.”

When I gave the altar invitation, 50 men came forward out of 80 men, and received God’s mercy, grace and salvation.

In the middle of the prayer for Salvation, the Lord said to me in my spirit: “Hepatitis C.”

I knew what that meant.

I finished my prayer, and the church applauded Jesus for saving souls this evening.

Then, I called out and said, “There are three men here with the disease of Hepatitis C.”

A liver disease that can be fatal.

I had this same disease from age 21 until 36, when the Lord Jesus healed me. I was so sick that the whites of my eyes were a shade of yellow.

A failing liver from all the drug addiction I did to my body in the 1970’s.

God healed me then, and I obeyed His Voice.

There was a ten second pause in the crowd, then the first man raised his hand.

Then twenty seconds later, the second.

Now, I am waiting for the third, and finally the third hand went up.

I asked these men to come forward to receive prayer for God to do a miracle.

He is in the miracle business.

I prayed for all three, and as we were leaving, a man, who I have known in prison for over thirty years, a believer in Jesus since I met him, said to me, “Joe, the last man who raised his hand is a Christian hater. He goes around this prison tearing up all brochures, tracks, or any literature about Christ, and throws them in the trash. He has also stolen men’s Bibles belonging to Christians in here and tore them up as well. He is a true Christ-hater, Joe.”

This man who was a non-believer, must have wanted desperately to be healed of this death sentence he had with that disease.

He probably thought, “I need healing more than I need Christ.”

Yet, it is Jesus Christ Who is our Healer.

He got saved at that altar, not because he needed Christ, but that he needed healing. He got the best healing ever.

His heart healed and transformed from a heart stone to a heart of flesh.

To serve Jesus.

These are just a couple of miracles God did, and there are so many to share I wanted to give you my new website info to look up and see the other stories of my past, and present miracles God has done.

https://www.anewthingsee.com/

Ferguson Unit-Father's Day

My son and his friend from college are traveling with me this coming Father’s Day for three services, and I want to provide, like I did last year, the 2,300 bars of soap as a gift to all who live there.

Please pray and help me purchase these bars soon, as I need at least 5 days for shipping to get them from Dollar Tree in time.

Please pray and help me with this gift.

Many men will be saved on June 15, 2025, only ten days from now.

Thank you, in advance, for your prayers and support in winning the lost to Christ and fulfilling the scripture in visiting those in prison.

Restoration Prison Ministry: June 2025 Newsletter

June 5, 2025

Dear Faithful Servants,

I waited until I returned from the Northwest to update you on God’s Wonder-working Power.

Love-Hope-Restoration-Healing and Forgiveness

I entitled this story of the things God did on this trip. Jesus did the above five things in multiple souls in the Northwest.

I will take you on a day-by-day track of how the Lord worked His Wonder-working Power.

The first night, after my flight arrived on Wednesday, May 28th, I preached in the church that my wife and I and several other couples pioneered back in 2007.

The theme of LifeHouse Church back then, though the name is a little different now, uses the above reference to God and His ability and power to make change in lives of people who are undone.

It is His love, hope, restoration, healing and forgiveness that the Lord did back in 2007, that exists today.

The first night in this church, beyond the souls saved and the backsliders returning home to Jesus, a miracle happened.

A bonified, true deliverance.

The Pastor of this church has a son-in-law who is married to his oldest daughter. This young 25-year-old man’s father, throughout his entire life, would never go to church. His mom is saved, and his father never came with his family.

He is a good dad but not saved.

While in his office near the church, this young man called his father, like he has for years, and asked again while I was in his office studying for my sermon.

His dad said no.

During the worship service later, his mom is there, along with around twenty-five other folks.

During the last song, his father walked in and sat in the back of the church.

Miracle Number One.

The son is amazed he showed up and, it just so happens that my message this night is called “Like Father, like Son.”

Coincidence?

No, of course not.

I preached the message the Lord had given me and did the altar invitation this way.

“If you have never received Jesus into your heart, and you sense the Holy Spirit tugging at your heart, you come first.” Several men and women came first.

Then I spoke again, “If you are here and you have known Jesus at one time, and you have allowed something to come in between you and the Lord, or you need to affirm, again, your Salvation, you come now.”

Several folks came for that.

Then I said, “And if you are a dad, any kind of dad, whether you feel you are a good dad, or a stepfather, or a dad who feels you are a bad dad, you come. It would be my honor to pray for you, Sir. Please do not let pride, or fear, or anything else stand in the way of me praying for you.”

All the men who are dads, came.

Suddenly, I looked and saw this young man I spoke of, standing at the altar with his estranged Daddy.

(Remember, he has never been in a church in his life).

When I said the sinner's prayer for those getting saved, the father prayed out loud.

Not in a whisper, but out loud with tears streaming down his face.

Not only him, but his 25-year-old son, now holding hands with his father who is being born again.

Wow.

Only Jesus could do this.

Restoration, Healing, and Forgiveness.

Three of the above words which this church was founded on.

Only Jesus and His mercy can make this happen.

“Like Father, like Son” is a reality for one young man and his father.

Now the father can walk in the footsteps of his Christian son, and side by side they can live in peace, instead of sorrow.

The young son and his mother, have witnessed with their own eyes, filled with tears, the power of God, healing a family, one soul at a time.

Love and Hope was poured out on this family, finishing the words that this church stands for, all in one evening in a church in Vancouver, Washington.

Truly, Lifehouse Fellowship, proved that in Jesus Christ, there is Life, in the House of God.

Santiam Prison-Salem, Oregon

I preached a message about “Identity Theft of the Soul” which refers to how life and its trials, tend to strip away our identity in Christ at times.

It also means for the prisoners who do not know Jesus as Savior; that their true identities are not the men in this prison chapel who came to prison, but the men who Jesus can heal and save, who will each have a new identity.

A new creation in Christ. A new man. A new identity.

Several men came to the service, approximately 40 men of all ages.

Ten souls came forward to be saved, and I prayed for one man, in particular. I had another fellow volunteer and his wife with me, who I have ministered with for over 23 years. He and his wife were the ones who the Lord had me turn over the prison ministry to in 2007 when I left to live in Texas.

Both of us laid hands on him, and I spoke these specific words to him from the Holy Ghost.

He wept and wept, and put his face on my left shoulder, until my shirt was soaked with tears of deliverance.

Once he was done weeping, we prayed for him, and he left that chapel a new man.

He was already a Christian, but now he has the true joy of the Lord Jesus, by letting go of his past, and seeking the Lord for his future.

Only Jesus can orchestrate these Divine Appointments.

Oregon State Correctional Institution-Salem, Oregon

I arrived at this prison with the same couple I was with last night. They will be with me the entire 1,400 miles that we will travel all over Oregon and Idaho.

This prison is already experiencing revival, before I arrived.

I have been preaching in this prison, along with all the Oregon prisons for almost 38 years now.

It is like coming home in a way for me.

My message this night was called “Our Domino Effect.”

Based on our decisions in life, I used the domino as a picture of dominoes falling on to one another, and then another falls, and so on.

Lined up for as far as the eye can see; they all fall until they all stop.

You know the picture.

When I gave the altar invitation, 50 men came forward out of 80 men, and received God’s mercy, grace and salvation.

In the middle of the prayer for Salvation, the Lord said to me in my spirit: “Hepatitis C.”

I knew what that meant.

I finished my prayer, and the church applauded Jesus for saving souls this evening.

Then, I called out and said, “There are three men here with the disease of Hepatitis C.”

A liver disease that can be fatal.

I had this same disease from age 21 until 36, when the Lord Jesus healed me. I was so sick that the whites of my eyes were a shade of yellow.

A failing liver from all the drug addiction I did to my body in the 1970’s.

God healed me then, and I obeyed His Voice.

There was a ten second pause in the crowd, then the first man raised his hand.

Then twenty seconds later, the second.

Now, I am waiting for the third, and finally the third hand went up.

I asked these men to come forward to receive prayer for God to do a miracle.

He is in the miracle business.

This man who was a non-believer, must have wanted desperately to be healed of this death sentence he had with that disease.

He probably thought, “I need healing more than I need Christ.”

Yet, it is Jesus Christ Who is our Healer.

“If you have never received Jesus into your heart, and you sense the Holy Spirit tugging at your heart, you come first.”
Several men and women came first.