Behind Fences

God's call to ministry came to Nelson Zeiset ay 12 years old. From the time, the Lancaster County Mennonite boy ordered his life accordingly, with a singular purpose to take the Gospel into a shadowy world among criminals. In Behind Fences, Nelson and his wife, Esther, alternately share their perspective of Nelson's 33 years in a chaplaincy career that spanned two states and seven prisons. Learn of God's faithfulness through the 1980s AIDS hysteria and a prison riot that nearly upended the call, of lawsuits an inmates's calculated scheme to frame Nelson, and of driving in a blinding snowstorm with a back-seat drunk. Listen in on conversations in The Hole, and sit with Nelson as he delivers death notices to inmates and conducts prison marriage interviews. Read of Christmas church services that led to a massive candy bar project. Marvel as the prison church grows, racial walls crumble, and despairing men find hope and forgiveness through Jesus.