Dear Pastor Dove,
I want to thank you so much for sending your awesome magazine to me. It is really a light in a dark place. Sin is all over this place but I choose to stay clean. I thank God for Prison Victory that teaches us a better way of life. I know if Bear could do it, so can I. I want to give back somehow but I don’t have any money. Would you accept stamps as a gift from me?
— D., Michael Unit, Tennessee
Colony, TX

Dear Loving Hearts,
It was awesome how you came to this unit on your bikes, even as cold as it was. I want to thank you so much for giving me your book, A Bear and A Dove. I read it all the way through and even missed chow instead of putting it down. I just couldn’t stop reading it. I laughed and I cried all the way through. I just wanted to tell you that I take the Bear Challenge and I will live like Bear did for the rest of my life. I only wish I could’ve met him. My life will never be the same.
— S., David Wade Corrections,
Homer, LA

Dear Pastor Dove,
I just finished reading your book, A Bear and A Dove, and I laughed one minute and cried the next. I have to tell you that I had just about lost all hope lately and your book came at a time when I was on the bottom. I was convinced that the only way out was to commit suicide. Now I know that if Bear could do it, so can I. I take the Bear Challenge and I’ll never be the same.”
— T., PCF, Pendleton, IN

Dear Pastor Dove,
I just got your book yesterday, A Bear and A Dove, and I couldn’t put it down. I stayed up until 2:00 a.m. reading it and it is the best book I have ever read! It is the only book that made me cry. It really touched me like nothing else has. I already shared it with some of the inmates here and one officer. It gives a lot of guys hope in here to know you can go from the baddest to the best when you know God.
W., WTSP, Henning TN