When God works on the inside of a person, the transformation of their heart inevitably overflows into their life. In the same way, if we are doing God’s work inside the prisons, we will effect change on the outside. What begins behind bars will bear fruit in homes and communities.
Around 700,000 men and women are released from prison every year. The way they live their lives will impact their families and their peers. As president of Prison Fellowship, I invite you to help us ensure that more and more former inmates reenter society changed by Jesus Christ, with the life skills, renewed thinking, and character traits that will put them on the road to success.
Prison Fellowship works toward successful prisoner reentry through programs like the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, a values-based reentry program proven to dramatically reduce recidivism, and Prisoners to Pastors, a rigorous, seminary-level course that produces graduates with biblical training and a mandate to go back and impact their homes and communities for the cause of Christ.
As we have been for decades, we remain committed to serving and building the Church within the walls. But we want the lives changed in prison to bring revival on the outside, too, as spouses and parents and children and friends see the dramatic change that Christ produces in prisoners’ lives.
As you give, pray, and volunteer with Prison Fellowship, you are stirring fires inside the walls, but also on the outside. You are bringing change. You are investing in infinite impact – the transformation of a society that desperately needs to know and follow Christ.