Prison Fellowship

LANSDOWNE, VA, December 20, 2011—Justice Fellowship announces the appointment of Craig DeRoche, former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, as their Director of External Affairs. DeRoche will work with federal and state officials to reform the criminal justice system.

 

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Prison Fellowship President Garland Hunt (left) with NHCLC President Samuel Rodriguez.

Prison Fellowship is announcing a new partnership with the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), the largest Christian Hispanic association in the United States.

"This partnership will not only allow us to focus our efforts to reach and engage more Hispanic churches, but to also increase our ministry to touch the hearts of Hispanic prisoners and their children, an estimated 20 percent of our total outreach," says Prison Fellowship President Garland Hunt.  "We are thankful that doors have been opened that will allow us to heighten our outreach to our country's largest ethnic population. We know our relationship with NHCLC will reap great fruit, and we pray this is the beginning of a relationship that will blossom perennially to touch generations and transform lives for many years to come."

For more information about the partnership, check out the NHCLC press release.

Prison Fellowship^® (PF) is pleased to announce two highly qualified new leaders to take the helm of its 35-year-old ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families. Beginning in July, Jim Liske will serve as the organization’s new CEO, and Garland Hunt will serve as president.

 

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"What Does a Christian worldview ministry have to do with a prison ministry?"  "Why are you ministering to prisoners and their families, and at the same time talking on the radio about things like traditional marriage or abortion?"

Chuck Colson responds to such questions about the relationship between Prison Fellowship and BreakPoint, saying that truth and love, as the two principal characteristics of God, are inseperable.

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Today Prison Fellowship^® announced the appointment of James Liske as the ministry’s CEO.  Liske, who currently serves as senior pastor at Ridge Point Community Church in Holland, Michigan, will begin his term with Prison Fellowship in late July.  He succeeds Tom Pratt, who has served as interim president since October 2010.

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The Wall Street Journal has published a review of Byron Johnson's new book, More God, Less Crime. Johnson complied and considered a variety of studies "that measured the possible effect of religion on crime." The list was long (273 studies). Notably, 90 percent of those studies indicated that "more religiosity resulted in less crime."

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Prison Fellowship is pleased to announce that Frank Lofaro will be joining the ministry this May to serve as executive vice-president, assuming leadership oversight of the programmatic, fundraising, and marketing efforts of Prison Fellowship.

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Approximately 320 guests, including actor Stephen Baldwin, attended Prison Fellowship’s screening of the new movie Loving the Bad Man. Following the screening, a panel discussion was held on the movie’s themes of forgiveness and reconciliation and how they relate to prison ministry.

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Two-time Academy Award winner and producer Hilary Swank visited Prison Fellowship to join a panel talk about the importance of faith in prisoners’ lives and the role of the local church in justice reform.

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Goodwill Industries International and Prison Fellowship signs an agreement to collaborate on job training and mentoring services for people who spent time in prison and at-risk youth, and to influence public policy initiatives. The partnership aims to help these populations make a successful return to their communities following incarceration, support the children of formerly incarcerated individuals and reduce the rate of criminal recidivism.

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