Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers - The Miracle Of Hope: Live From Angola Prison

Published Monday 21st April 2008
Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers - The Miracle Of Hope: Live From Angola Prison
Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers - The Miracle Of Hope: Live From Angola Prison
DVD

STYLE: Gospel
RATING 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 44767-DVD231
LABEL: Integrity 43741
FORMAT: DVD Music video
ITEMS: 1
RELEASE DATE: 2008-04-14
RRP: £9.99

Reviewed by Tony Cummings

The Grammy Award winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers have been around for decades but I doubt that they've ever had a more moving release than this one. Filmed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a prison with the bloodiest reputation in the US where the average sentence is 88 years, this grim institution has long been a place of hopelessness yet through the revival started by the Brooklyn Tabernacle over 1,200 inmates have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord. The DVD includes a powerful full concert which shows them in good voice on such songs as "This Is How It Feels To Be Free", "I'm Amazed", "My Life Is In Your Hands" and "Amazing Grace". But it's the docu-video which is the real attention grabber, containing as it does inspiring testimonies from inmates and prison staff. Amongst the most inspiring is that of "Bishop" Eugene Tanniehill, a seventh grade dropout who was convicted of murder during an armed robbery but became a born again Christian and had his life sentence commuted after being released into the custody of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Church. Even if you've ignored the Tabernacle's punchy gospel music in the past, this inspiring DVD will encourage and challenge you like few others.

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Product Description
Known for years as one of the most dangerous maximum security prisons, Angola Prison (Louisiana State Penitentiary) is the setting for one of the most moving concerts ever given by The Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers.

Recorded live, this new DVD features a magnificent full concert plus a powerful docu-video complete with inmate interviews focusing on the amazing revival that is occurring in that place.

Reader Comments

Posted by Gary Weidemann in Fort Wayne Indiana @ 02:46 on Aug 15 2021

I was 'born again' at 30 years of age in 1981 at the old Steuben County Jail after being strung out for years as a product of broken homes, where drunkenness, domestic violence, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder were 'normal ' behavior problems. While I was incarcerated after another drunken family fight led to the Steuben County Sheriff's Department arresting me, charging me with two felonies, and incarcerating me. I went thru withdrawal symptoms without medical care from years of wretched addiction to alcohol and illegal drugs there in that County Jail. Someone gave me a copy of the New Testament of the Holy Bible a gift of Chaplain Ray, International Prison Fellowship, Dallas Texas. A friend asked his Christian Church to uphold me in prayer to God Our Heavenly Father in Jesus Christ's Name and Spirit at that time. I gave my life to the Lord at that crucial moment in my life and He miraculously heard my prayer in some astounding fashion. I was 'born again' on the spot and have stayed saved and sober in His answer to these critical issues from that miraculous moment onward, Brooklyn Tabernacle of Brooklyn NY. This October 31st Halloween '21 in history marks 40 years since I verifiably was released from the Steuben County Jail. I've been saved and sober without a singular relapse in 4 decades. Can you help me get this miraculous testimony out to a sizable number of people as soon as possible? I can't reach thousands without the Church helping me to do so to impact lives for Christ's Sake without assistance? This NEEDS TO BE DONE before I die while I'm still alive. There are a number of reliable people who can confirm the absolute validity of numerous aspects of such a modern day miracle of God testimony like this as truthful and trustworthy. If there's anything God can bless you to do to help of these accords, that'd be so helpful, awesome and great. You can contact at my email. May God will it to be soon. I'm 69 years old and need help asap.



Posted by Phyllis White in El Dorado Hills, California @ 19:53 on Jan 1 2015

Very powerful stories; it peeks my interest to be in the prison ministry, but I am somewhat disabled which is a drawback. I would like to share this on my Facebook page, but don't see a place to do that.



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