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On March 20, Lawrence Edward Buckner marked his twenty-seventh birthday with some of his friends. It wasn’t exactly a celebration, though, because they were all locked up at the county jail. It was Larry’s fifth straight birthday behind bars.
Larry has been in and out of jail since 1997 and is weary of living this way. “I’m tired of letting God down. I know it tears his heart up. I just want to get married and have a family.”
When he was a child, Larry might be the last person you would expect to see in jail some day. He was reading the Bible at three years old, and recalls his mother telling him that God had a call on his life. And he knows that is true. He went to church regularly, and was baptized at eleven years old.
But at age sixteen, he joined a gang and started doing drugs and alcohol. “Even then I could see myself in the story of Jonah,” he says. “God told me to go to Nineveh and serve him, but I…
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