{"id":135904,"date":"2025-03-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135904"},"modified":"2025-03-25T06:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:48:13","slug":"norwegian-evangelist-visits-czech-prisons-nothing-is-lost-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135904","title":{"rendered":"(EF) Norwegian evangelist visits Czech prisons: \u201cNothing is lost in life\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>At the beginning of March, Norwegian evangelist Jan Eriksen, a former criminal and drug addict, visited Czech prisons, again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been visiting the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/evangelicalfocus.com\/tag\/czech_republic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Czech Republic<\/a>&nbsp;for more than 20 years, and during that time he has addressed thousands of prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, Jan Eriksen told his life story in prisons in Karvin\u00e1, Opava, Ku\u0159im, Rapotice and M\u00edrov. During these five visits, about 120 prisoners responded to his call to repent and follow Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All who were interested could also take away from the meeting a copy of the New Testament and Eriksen\u2019s autobiographical book&nbsp;<em>I lived in the underworld<\/em>&nbsp;(in Czech:&nbsp;<em>\u017dil jsem v podsv\u011bt\u00ed<\/em>, originally&nbsp;<em>Handlager der Unterwelt<\/em>&nbsp;in Norwegian). In the book, he describes how as a pimp and drug dealer he experienced the bitter reality of a world full of violence, murder, rape and prostitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/evangelicalfocus.com\/europe\/30569\/norwegian-evangelist-visits-czech-prisons-nothing-is-lost-in-life\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jan Eriksen, a former pimp and drug addict, has been sharing his testimony of conversion with inmates in the Czech Republic and other countries for more than 20 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0QJqo4MUud\">https:\/\/t.co\/0QJqo4MUud<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Evangelical Focus (@Evan_Focus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Evan_Focus\/status\/1904172816766833095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of March, Norwegian evangelist Jan Eriksen, a former criminal and drug addict, visited Czech prisons, again. He has been visiting the&nbsp;Czech Republic&nbsp;for more than 20 years, and during that time he has addressed thousands of prisoners. This<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135904\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,456,102,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech-republic","category-norway","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135909,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135904\/revisions\/135909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}