Pro-Lifer Spending Thanksgiving in Prison Grateful for Opportunity: ‘A DOJ-Sponsored Mission Trip’

For only the second time in their 41-year marriage, Calvin and Trish Zastrow will be spending Thanksgiving apart. The first time was due to travel — this time it’s because Cal is serving a six-month prison sentence over a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility in 2021.

Zastrow was convicted earlier this year on FACE Act-related charges brought by the Biden administration after he prayed, sang hymns, and sat in front of the door to the entrance of an abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. Calling from the Federal Correctional Institute Thomson in Illinois this week, Zastrow told The Daily Wire he was doing “absolutely fantastic.”

“I’m all on fire for Jesus,” he said. “I’m doing absolutely great, I’m on a big mission trip here.”

Over one month into his prison sentence, Zastrow said he has kept busy praying, reading his Bible, and teaching his fellow inmates about Christianity.

“There’s a whole lot of prodigals who are wallowing in pig mud, but they want to come back to Jesus, and so I’m here as a missionary to pull them out of that and help them get back on the Jesus road,” he said. (Read more from “Pro-Lifer Spending Thanksgiving in Prison Grateful for Opportunity: ‘A DOJ-Sponsored Mission Trip’” HERE)

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