Forgiving others unleashes God's power and provision in our lives. Just ask Brandon Biggs.

Biggs's father, Gregory, was struck by a car and lodged in the windshield. He might have survived the accident if the driver, Chante Mallard, hadn't been high on drugs and alcohol. But instead of rendering aid or calling for help, Mallard drove home and parked her car in the garage, leaving Gregory Biggs to die.

After authorities put the pieces of the case together and arrested Mallard, she was given a 50-year sentence. At the end of the trial, she tearfully asked Biggs's family for forgiveness. Biggs's son, Gregory, then read a statement in which he told Mallard he accepted her apology, "but in return, I hope that you will accept my forgiveness, and I hope you will accept the forgiveness of Jesus Christ."

Bigg's stirring act of forgiveness caught the attention of Randy Skillicorn, a death row inmate in Missouri, who is also the editor of Compassion, a ministry that awards scholarship money to relatives of murder victims.

"His overwhelming desire to forgive this woman, it's not something that you generally hear from the public," said Mr. Skillicorn in an interview from prison. "The message that he was trying to give was far more valuable than any amount of money we could ever give him."

Shortly afterward, Brandon was contacted by a representative from Compassion, and encouraged to apply for the scholarship. In his essay, Brandon said that, while he had many feelings toward the individual who murdered his father, it was through the personal forgiveness he had experienced in his own life through his relationship with Jesus Christ that he was able to offer that same forgiveness to her.

Biggs became a ministerial student at Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas, and has expressed interest in working with incarcerated felons.