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Precincts In
Prayer About the Kennedys Mac has been working with Law
Enforcement for 15 years, first as a Private Investigator and then as an
Officer with the Department of Corrections. Since promoting to
Institutional Investigator at
Coffeewood Correctional Center, Sgt. Kennedy has monitored inmate criminal
and gang-related activities that affect the safety and security of our prisons
and extend into our communities. He
has a brother who is a State Trooper, another brother who is the Investigator
with a Sherriff’s Department and his mother is a Police Dispatcher. He grew up in a large family on a
small farm in Virginia, attending church nearly every Sunday, but on October
15, 1978 his life was changed forever when he was overtaken by God’s pursuing
love and surrendered his life to Jesus. During his 5 year attendance at
Calvary Chapel of Charlottesville he worked with the “Eternity Matters” radio
program and participated in the Street Witnessing Ministry. Stephanie recently resigned after
5 years of service to the Department of Corrections as Human Resource Analyst
and is now committed to ministry and family. She grew up in Phoenix, AZ and in
1984 she relocated with former husband and four children to California where
she rededicated her life to the Lord at Harvest Christian Fellowship in
Riverside. The family relocated again to Virginia in 1997 where they attended
Calvary Chapel of Fredericksburg. She has worked with Youth Ministry, Calvary
Chapel Magazine, Calvary Bookstore and now runs the Administrative Office of
Calvary Chapel of Greene and is Administrative Director of Precincts in
Prayer. In January of 2004 her husband of
24 years suffered a massive heart attack and died while on duty at Coffeewood
Correctional Center. Although tragic, God always triumphs over tragedy and
this opened a door to witness and share her faith and minister to the
Officers and Staff at Coffeewood. In October 2002 Mac &
Stephanie had met on a trip to New York to visit the precincts and had been
acquaintances, but after her husband’s death the trips to New York had
ceased. In December 2004 they started back up through the support of Pastor
Jack Richard’s of Calvary Chapel of Greene. Mac & Stephanie started
working more closely putting the trips together and by the June 2005 trip
they both knew that God had brought them together not only as ministry
partners but as partners in life. On October 15, 2005 they were married and
were honored by Pastor Jack marrying them. They live in the shadow of the
Blue Ridge Mountains in a quaint home with her three sons living close by and
her daughter in Florida, and are very blessed with 4 grand children. All are
thriving very well and God has showered His blessings on this family as they continue to live for Him. God
continues to place them right where He wants them to be. And
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every
creature.”- Mark 16:15
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