subject: Inmates graduate from Seminary at San Quentin Chapel as part of Southern Baptist program by Peter Menkin [print this page] Inmates graduate from Seminary at San Quentin Chapel as part of Southern Baptist program by Peter Menkin
Images: (1) Seminary PresidentThe Reverend Doctor Jeff P. Iorg with graduateRobert I. Butler, California; (2) The Reverend Morris A. Currry, Jr., Protestant Chaplain, San Quentin Garden Chapel. Pastor Curry worked 20 years as a volunteer at the prison, and has been Pastor on paid staff now for five years. ; (3) PastorCurry.He is committed to the community through helping it to regain its moral base by promoting a value system based on Agape: "Consider others more important than yourself" (Philippians 2:3); (4) Darrell Cortez Hartley, at the laying on of hands in his robe. The Missouri born prisoner received his diploma in Christian Ministry at San Quentin Garden Chapel June 10, 2010 along with three other inmates; (5) The writer exiting San Quentin Garden Chapel which is inside the prison, a maximum security institution located in California's Marin County, north of San Francisco. Accompanying the writer is a friend who came to witness the graduation. There were few guests in attendance; (6) Laying on of hands, for the spirit of ministry was conferred by faculty of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, California--but 20 minutes from the prison.
