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• “It takes one who has been a captive to help the captive.”

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - Prison is not usually a place that inspires hope, but inmates and their families can find it if they look in the right places, say founders of the Mercy Heart Program at Manna for Life Ministries Church.

The Rev. Donnie R. Rollie, pastor, and Mercy Heart Director Ismael Rivas and Assistant Director David Wooden are serving dinner and meeting former prisoners and their families at 6:30 p.m. each Thursday in the 1312 S. Jackson St. church’s dining room ...

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