Actually, I did not choose it, God chose me. This has happened twice in my life. The first time was when I took a 32 week course on spiritual gifts and then completed the survey as to what mine might be. I was devastated when I found out it was evangelism and exhortation. I wanted nothing to do with it and tried to ignore it for nine months. I was miserable. God would not let it go. When I finally acknowledged that I had no idea about how to go about this or who to approach, God took control. He brought people and situations to my life that very quickly led me to prison ministry. I was at an ecumenical men’s conference at the sun dome at USF in Tampa in January of 1991. A man I had never seen before on the other side of the crowd numbering in the thousands worked his way over to me with his hand stretched out and put his finger in my chest and said you belong in prison. That’s how it started. Later I was called to be a prophet as well. That is also something I wanted no part of. It is also a job that is thankless. Most people think it has something to do with for telling the future. They do not realize it is speaking truth to authority which is almost never appreciated.