Horrible Massacre, Drug Abuse and now a Lutheran

(name and country have been changed to protect anonymity)
Last week, I got the call from Carlos. He wanted to be confirmed at our LINC church so we began a discussion on theology, salvation and forgiveness. He had obviously done well in his adult confirmation classes but I did not know him well.
I was stunned as he shared his past of a horrible massacre, long struggle with drug abuse and divorce. He is a relatively young man, in his thirties.
First he shared that when he was a young, he joined the military in his home country of Nicaragua. In his stint as a soldier he participated in what he described as a "massacre of women and children". Though he did not want to be part of it, his guilt would not leave him after 15 years of torturing memories.
It was then that he began the binge drinking that took control of him for the last 13 years. He combined alcohol with other drugs and soon found himself alienating himself from anything that was good but especially his family. Now married and with kids his wild living was a huge reason for his wife leaving him. He even got into a fist fight with his brother-in-law during this time.
He was at the end of his rope early in 2007 when he read in the newspaper about a group that helped alcoholics. He called the number and our LINC staff picked him up within an hour. He soon was plugged into a 12 step program. It was then that he realized that he needed God in his life.
He has not touched alcohol or drugs since that day. Carlos trusted in Christ and has been in discipleship classes since. He hopes to continue his growth and then hopes that maybe he could go to Seminary and become a pastor.
Carlos was a murderer and drug addict. Carlos is now a believer, a confirmed Lutheran and a witness of God's grace. God saves and changes people!
Pray for Carlos that he
1. Keeps growing in his faith
2. That he can be reconciled with his family and children
3. That he can get his GED completed
4. That he gets properly "documented"

Read this from Titus 3
4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.