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Chuck Colson to speak at Jubilee 08

Chuck Colson-Jubilee keynoteMore than 30 years ago, Charles W. Colson was not thinking about reaching out to prison inmates or reforming the U.S. penal system. In fact, this aide to President Richard Nixon was “incapable of humanitarian thought,” according to the media of the mid-1970s. Chuck Colson was known as the White House “hatchet man,” a man feared by even the most powerful politicos during his four years of service to President Nixon.

When news of Mr. Colson’s conversion to Christianity leaked to the press in 1973, the Boston Globe reported, “If Mr. Colson can repent of his sins, there just has to be hope for everybody.”

Charles Colson will address the Jubilee conference at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and the Westin Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday evening, February 16th.

Jubilee was founded more than 30 years ago to give college students a vision for how they might serve God with their whole lives, and particularly their studies and future vocations. Charles Colson is living proof of God’s transforming power.

Mr. Colson entered Alabama’s Maxwell Prison in 1974 as a new Christian and as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges. He served seven months of a one- to three-year sentence.

In 1976, Charles Colson founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, which has become the world’s largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, crime victims, and their families. He saw early on that reconciliation among offenders, victims, their families, and communities should be a ministry of the Church. Because he understood that the work of changing prisoners’ lives should be a global endeavor, Prison Fellowship International was formed in 1979 under his direction. It has since expanded to include national chapters in 88 countries.

Would you like to join the hundreds of college students who will gather to hear Mr. Colson’s story on February 16th? To find out more about Jubilee and how you can register, visit http://www.jubileeconference.com.