Life Beyond Bars - Daystar Donates $10,000 to Susan Mellen

DALLAS - Jan. 27, 2016 - PRLog -- Daystar has donated $10,000 to Susan Mellen, a Californian woman who was wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years for a crime she didn’t commit.

During her time in prison, Mellen remained faithful to the Lord, convinced that He would eventually bring the truth to light. She said, “I was in prison, but prison wasn’t in me. I had something greater, and that was Jesus!”

Back in 2007 Joni and the Daystar Singers visited Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California. Sitting in the crowd was Susan Mellen. “Daystar gave me the hope I needed to survive,” she said. “I believed that

God was going to do the impossible.” Susan clung to the hope that God was going to set her free.

Writing the word “freedom” on the bottom of her shoes, she literally stood on her freedom, walking in it each and every day.

After spending 17 years behind bars, Susan finally tasted that freedom on October 10, 2014, with the help of an organization called Innocence Matters. The verdict was met with happy tears and cheers from a courtroom full of her friends and family, including grandchildren she would soon meet for the first time. This time of transition can be very difficult for many people exiting the prison system. That’s why, with the help of the network’s partners around the world, Daystar gave Susan a $10,000 donation to help her re-establish her life after being released.

To learn more about Susan Mellen’s story, visit Daystar.com/SusanMellen, and for more information on Daystar’s ministry efforts around the world, visit Daystar.com/Blog.

Daystar Television Network is an award winning, faith-based network dedicated to spreading the Gospel 24 hours a day, seven days a week – all around the globe, through all media formats possible. Reaching over 108 million households in the United States and over 2 billion people worldwide, Daystar is the fastest growing faith-based television network in the world.