Carvis Webb grew up in Baton Rouge at the height of the crack epidemic, and the streets marked him early. By eleven he had already been shot, and by fifteen a judge sentenced him to life plus ninety-nine years.

"I was just a kid. They told me I would die there," he recounts.

Inside Angola, another inmate stopped him one day and said, "If you're ever going to get out of here, you have to pray." He had no idea how, since all he knew were cuss words, but he started anyway, praying every night for the same two things: credit for time served, and a lawyer he could never afford.

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THE MIRACLE

"When I saw that, I knew God was real."

One morning a newspaper slid under his cell door with a headline that stopped him cold: Two Baton Rouge Teens Have Convictions

Overturned. A lawyer who normally charged hundreds of thousands a case had taken his appeal for free, and the court granted him exactly what he had been praying for.

He walked out a free man and was soon touring alongside his cousin, a well-known rapper, but the success never filled him. "The world was screaming my name, but my soul was tired." Then one night after a concert, a car opened fire. A bullet shattered his jaw and vocal cords, and doctors told him he would never speak again. "But God gave me a new voice. I used to rap about death. Now I speak life."

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THE FREEDOM

"That's where my redemption began. The biggest miracle of my life."

When he first stepped back through Angola's gates, the men recognized him instantly. He wasn't just another pastor passing through; he was one of them, and they knew it.

Just last month, we had the honor of bringing Pastor Donk back to preach at our God Behind Bars revival on the rodeo grounds of Angola Prison, where inmates were bussed in from prisons across Louisiana to attend.

The same man once sentenced to die behind those walls now walks back through them freely, a reminder of what God can do when you trust Him and give Him your life.

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