As a result of Jeannine's special calling to take the transforming message of the Gospel to the prisons of Colombia, she lives under the threat of death. Her interaction and outreach ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families in Medellín is monitored by some of Colombia's most powerful drug lords, terrorists and hired assassins. Enemies follow her and trace her steps forcing her to regularly change her routes and routines.

Several years ago, the death threats came eerily close to reality. One of the inmates, who had professed Christianity and worked with the prayer group, gave a guerrilla commander false information about Jeannine and her colleague. When the information was passed along to a superior, a death sentence was decreed. When he found out about the death decree, the Holy Spirit convicted the inmate who had given the false information; he came to Jeannine in a panic to confess what he had done and to make it right. He took Jeannine and her co-worker to see the commander. Eventually, the accusations were disproved and the death threat lifted. When Jeannine was breathing more easily, she was reminded of the passage in Matthew 10:16-31, ''I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.''

A Miracle of God

Bellavista prison certainly qualified as a ''den of wolves.'' And, the Christian ministry within the prison walls is a miracle of God that began long before Jeannine arrived. Back in 1989, dead bodies on the floor and blood-splattered graffiti on the walls was common in the prison. Mindless mobs hacked victims, sometimes cutting off heads and gouging eyes. It was one of the bloodiest prisons in the world with innumerable riots and 30 to 60 murders a month. At its worse, even the guards refused to go inside the prison gates.

At that time Bellavista's riots threatened to spill over into the entire city. Many thought that the only solution to the mayhem was to send in the army. Reporters swarmed outside the jail expecting a massacre when the military took over and tried to crush the rebellion.

In the warden's office, though, a quiet decision changed everything. And, since 1990, there have been no riots and only eleven murders. What happened in 1989?

Instead of sending in the military, the warden gave permission for a small group of Christians to hold a prayer meeting inside the prison walls. Incredibly, the Spirit of God moved in that place and prisoners began surrendering their weapons to a former inmate turned volunteer chaplain. Jeannine explains, ''In the midst of a country racked by moral bankruptcy, hollow religion and war, God is moving in unprecedented ways. The Holy Spirit is giving life where death reigns.''

But, like most revivals and movements of God's spirit, the groundwork for the miracle had begun years before. That former inmate had been working in the prison for three years - arriving at 8 a.m. and spending the entire day inside with the prisoners right in the midst of the mayhem.