Having a personal Bible is a very treasured possession for many people. This includes members of Cornerstone Prison Church in Sioux Falls, S.D. That is why Bingo for Bibles has become an activity staple for the congregation that meets within the South Dakota State Penitentiary. Usually hosted twice per year, Nov. 9 was the most recent Bingo for Bibles event.
Scott Van Voorst, pastor at Cornerstone, said that this activity was initiated by a previous pastor and had stopped during the COVID pandemic, but “the guys on the inside shared how much God has used Bingo for Bibles in the past to make connections and get guys into the Bible,” so they decided to bring it back.
Inmates sign up for the event and they play traditional bingo, winning the opportunity to select a study Bible as they mark off a row. Six leather-bound study Bibles, provided by the Cornerstone staff, were prizes at the Nov. 9 event. A Cornerstone bingo night also includes snacks and soft drinks between rounds.
This isn’t the only way for an inmate at the South Dakota State pen to receive a Bible, but Van Voorst explained, “Within the prison system any exchange can be a part of a favors-based relationship, so the only way we can give away a valuable study Bible is if we do not control who ends up getting it or if we committed to buying one for everyone in the entire prison population regardless of what they were likely to do with it. Playing bingo makes it so that we can bring in a few of these expensive Bibles, since we do not control who gets one and therefore are not engaging in a favors-based relationship.”
Van Voorst said they have given away about 30 study Bibles through the bingo games as well as many paperback Bibles to whoever asks for one, each month. He estimates that they have given over 750 Bibles in total since 2021.
“Having a really nice Bible gets men excited about getting into it more,” Van Voorst said. “There have been times where men were new to the faith or in a season of backsliding or wrestling with doubt only to get serious about personal study again when they received a new study Bible.”
“It also becomes a tool for the guys to share the gospel,” Van Voorst said. “There is very little in the prison with more financial value than the Bibles we give away at Bingo for Bibles. Sharing about what they received or about others who received one becomes an example of a very valuable gift provided by someone else. While the analogy breaks down—because some could work with family and get a Bible and none of us could do that for our forgiveness of sins—the reality that most could never get something so nice without it being given (freely) parallels the gift Jesus gives us we could never earn.”
Cornerstone Prison Church was organized in 2013. Van Voorst is its fourth pastor, called in 2021. Part-time worship pastor Cory Grimm, ordained in the Reformed Church in America and pastor of Alliance of Reformed Churches-affiliated Christ Community Church in Iowa, and office and lay ministry support Gord and Jean Dyk, make up the rest of the church staff.
Kyle Hoogendoorn is a freelance news correspondent for The Banner. He lives in Rock Valley, Iowa.
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Megan, 23, said she had never seen anything like those mushrooms called Serpula lacrymans – a species of fungus known for causing dry rot.
The fungus present themselves in large and smaller shapes and often present a brown and white colour.
Megan, of Pro Clean Commercials, said: “I have never seen anything like it before so it was new to me.
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She believe that a leak in the roof caused the fungus to grow in there as well as lack of ventilation because the buidling is boarded up.
She continued: “Where it is such a big open space with no ventilation it’s just really moist in there and where the wood has started to rot has created this fungus Serpula lacrymans.”
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• Losses totaled 1.2 billion won across three years.
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Authorities in South Korea have detained ten members of a gang that promised gullible victims they had a failsafe system to predict winning lottery numbers, local media reports.
The gang defrauded 27 people out of 1.2 billion Korean won (US$814K) over three years via the get-rich-quick sham, Busan Seo-bu Police said Friday. All are facing charges under the Specific Economic Crimes Aggravated Punishment Act.
Three members, including the suspected ringleader – a man in his 30s referred to only as “A” – have been indicted on charges of fraud under the Special Act on the Punishment of Lotteries and remain in custody.
The group ran four websites advertising its ludicrous promise: access to jackpot-winning lottery numbers, available only after paying an up-front fee. They told victims the money was needed to produce “special balls” and to lobby the Donghaeng Lottery – explanations that local reports do not clarify.
Most victims were in their 40s to 60s, with individual losses ranging from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of Korean won, police said.
There have been increased reports of these schemes in South Korea. In April, the operator of another fake lottery-prediction site was sentenced to 12-years in prison by the Incheon District Court for defrauding victims out of more than 40 billion won ($28 million) over the course of two years.
The mastermind of the scheme employed 52 people to run a website that deceptively claimed to provide scientifically generated lottery numbers.
The group marketed a supposed “lottery number prediction engine,” asserting it used mathematical analysis to identify winning combinations. In truth, the numbers were produced at random, and the prediction engine was entirely fictitious.
The fraudsters even posted predicted numbers after the real draw and manipulated it so that it looked like their prediction engine had been accurate.
Typically, scammers keep their victims convinced by showing fake winning numbers or (fabricated) testimonies from previous “winners.” They may even promise a refund if you don’t win – also a lie.
Ultimately, short of buying up every possible combination of winning tickets (which is only profitable under the right circumstances), there’s no system to beat the lottery, a game of compete chance.
“Numbers arbitrarily generated and sent as ‘first-prize lottery numbers’ have an extremely low chance of actually winning. People should not fall for the sweet temptation of guaranteed wins,” a Busan Seo-bu Police spokesperson warned.
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Analysis: winning money in the lottery has an effect on who we are, how we spend our money and what we want to do with our lives
By Nattavudh Powdthavee, University of Warwick
Most of us have dreamt about winning big in the lottery – I know I have. This dream recently came true for a ticket-holder in Ireland, who has just won the record €250 million EuroMillions jackpot. A sudden income of €250 million would no doubt be life-changing.
But what do we actually know about the effects of lottery wins on our lives? Will being a jackpot winner make us happy now, or in the future? I’ve spent my career researching how our happiness and wellbeing can be affected by life changes, decisions and luck – including the lottery. Here’s what I’ve learned about how winning the lottery can potentially change people’s lives.
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Winning a moderate amount of money in the lottery has an effect on who we are, how we spend our money and what we want to do with our lives. In various studies, my colleagues and I have found that winning at least €500 in the National Lottery makes people significantly more right-wing and less egalitarian, more likely to switch to private health insurance and to become self-employed.
Evidence on whether winning the lottery makes you happy is somewhat mixed. Using a British sample of over 16,000 lottery winners with an average win of several thousand pounds, economists Andrew Oswald and Jonathan Gardner, and later economists Benedicte Apouey and Andrew Clark, reported large and positive effects of wealth on winners’ mental health appearing two years after the win.
However, a more recent study of the Dutch Postcode Lottery focusing on a larger lottery win of a median US$22,500 (€19,325) albeit with a smaller sample size of winners to the British study (223 people) found little evidence that lottery wins affected people’s happiness in a statistically significant way.
Most of these previous studies have looked at the effects of winning several thousand dollars in the lottery – but what about the massive winners? Until recently, we did not have many observations of big lottery winners to conduct a meaningful study of the effects. People who win more than US$100,000 (€85,855) in the lottery do not typically feature in nationally representative household surveys as there are so few of them in any randomly selected household. This also means that any previous studies that tried to estimate the psychological impacts of large lottery wins would have too small a sample size to make any statistical findings conclusive.
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From RTÉ Radio 1’s Ray D’Arcy Show, an interview with former Lotto jackpot winner Pat Broderick who won €7 million in 2011
In an attempt to settle this issue once and for all, three economists – Erik Lindqvist, Robert Östling, and David Cesarini – have conducted one of the largest studies to date of the long term effects of big lottery wins on psychological wellbeing.
With an average win of US$106,000 (€85,877) and a sample size of more than 2,500 winners in the Swedish Lottery, they found big winners’ overall life satisfaction to be significantly higher than that of small winners and non-winners with similar characteristics. This persists more than five years after the win. Life satisfaction is a measure of evaluative wellbeing – the overall evaluation of how one views one’s life. This is distinct from experienced wellbeing – the positive emotions that we experience day-to-day.
The Swedish study found little evidence that winning a large amount of money in the lottery had any significant impact on winners’ happiness, which is a measure of experienced wellbeing. They also found winning big in the lottery does not substantially improve people’s current mental health.
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From RTÉ Archives, Gerry Reynolds reports for RTÉ News on the introduction of a new National Lottery game in 1987. Includes Bertie Ahern, Charles Haughey, Gay Byrne and others saying how they would spend the money if they won the lottery
This is consistent with a study by Nobel prize-winning economists Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, which showed that beyond a US$75,000 (€64,414) threshold, measures of evaluative wellbeing continue to rise with income whereas measures of experienced wellbeing, like happiness and mental health, do not. Furthermore, there was no evidence in the Swedish lottery study that a US$100,000 (€85,855) win significantly improved people’s satisfaction with their health, relationship, housing, neighbourhood and society.
The evidence from these studies suggests that winning the EuroMillions jackpot would significantly and sustainably improve the way we think about our finances and how our lives turn out in the long run, but it is less likely to make our day-to-day life feel more enjoyable.
For most of us, our dreams of winning big in the lottery will never materialise. But just buying a ticket can give us a warm, thrilling feeling of anticipation while we wait for the lucky numbers to be drawn. Psychologists call this the “let me dream on” effect. That reason alone might be good enough for us to keep playing.
Nattavudh Powdthavee is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick. This article was originally published by The Conversation.
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