The Napoleonic Code.  Guilty until proven innocent.  You can languish in prison for a long time, waiting for your case to come before the judge and your guilt or innocence to be determined.

Francis has been phoning his brother Christoph from time to time for a long time now.  The call never goes through.  Maybe his phone isn't working?  He often phones Christoph's pastor.  Always the response is the same.  Christoph is fine.  He's busy.  No problem.  And then Mama Helen came to visit.  Of course she wanted to visit her son Christoph, too.  So the family piled into a taxi and went across town to his place.  They discovered he no longer lives there.  The neighbor told them that he has been in prison for three months.  What a shock!  Francis phoned his pastor who met them at the Kondengui Prison.  It's actually not far from us.  We've been inside that prison before.  It's a terrible place.  They were able to visit with Christoph and learn his story.  He's a pastor but drives a taxi in order to earn a living.  One day the taxi was stolen.  The owner had his three drivers arrested and put in prison.  Let the court system find the guilty.  

Today Francis left work early to go to the prison and try to sort out the problem.  His brother could spend five or even ten years in prison, waiting for his case to be heard.  The family does not have the means to pay bribes, nor do they want to participate in that type of thing.  Just as Francis was getting ready to leave Shiloh a friend from another town phoned just to see how he was doing.  When he learned Christoph was in prison, he immediately gave Francis the phone number of a man who works at that prison and can help them.  In order to visit your person in prison you have to pay money to the guard at the gate.  Once you are inside you have to pay another person to go and get your family member or friend.  And so it goes.  But with the  help of this friend of a friend, things should go better for them.  Francis wants to visit the owner of the taxi too, and plead for mercy.  He would like to try and release his brother just as soon as possible.

Christoph has lost weight.  The prison provides one slim meal per day.  The living conditions are deplorable.  He is not able to contact anyone, thus three months passed without the family learning where he is.  But Christoph is an evangelist.  He believes that God has put him in prison for a reason.  He spends all his free time sharing the gospel with his captive audience.  He knows he will remain at Kondengui just as long as God wants him to be there.  He is buying up this opportunity for the Kingdom of God.