Wow, this last semester seemed to fly by. We just celebrated our 4th Grauation last week. We started with 27 student/inmates but only had 9 graduates. They all sucessfully completed basic editing, basic camera, basic lighting, basic Pro Tools, wrote scripts and hopefully learned a great deal about the many different careers in the television industry.
This class did experience one thing that none of our other classes have; the jail riot that happened on August 22nd. We're very proud of this class and the many others in the MERIT Program. Because of the faith-based component in both our program and the MERIT Program, none of our inmate/students participated in the riot. They all held firm and even with the threat of personal harm to themselves they still refused to be part of it. The were all amazing men of faith! Thank God.
We are now down for a month before we start the next semester.
Wow that's amazing! Praise the Lord they didn't get involved! What a great ministry you guys have!!
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