Their Last Day

Connie was standing in my office sharing with me that on Saturday, May 9th, she and her husband Bob would make their last trip to the Paso Robles Youth Authority. As she was talking, her eyes became tearful, and her voice began to break.

Bob and Connie Masten have been going to the Youth Authority (a prison and school for teenage young men who have been convicted of a crime), for over 29 years. Every month they would ask people from the church to bake cakes. Bob and Connie would travel to the institution, carrying their cakes through the gates. The invitation would go out to all those young men having a birthday that month. The Masten's, and the friends who would go with them, would spend time with these young men, playing board games, singing happy birthday, and eating cake. A short message of God's love and forgiveness was also shared. Some of the boys told Connie this was their first birthday cake and party ever. Can you imagine?

I asked Connie how many cakes do you think people baked during those three decades? She actually kept track...1,146 cakes!

On judgment day Jesus will speak to both the saved and lost. He will say to the saved that they ministered to Him, and came to Him. The conversation continues...

Matt 25:39-40
39 "When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?'
40 "The King will answer and say to them, "Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'

Bob and Connie, you've been ministering to Jesus these 30 years. The Lord bless you both for your years of faithful service.