"He grabbed my hand and said, 'I'm going to leave for a long time and you have to take care of your mom and your sister.'"

Jerrel Martin and a group of prisoners meet regularly for worship, teaching, discipleship, and prayer behind bars. It's church. Prison church. And it's clear that God is here.

Even in prison, leadership matters. That's why Willow Creek Church's Global Leadership Summit telecasts to prisons around the country.

"The gifts allow them to feel like I still care, even though I’m not there during Christmas."

"He thought he was 'big pimping' … He thought he was the greatest guy who ever touched Earth."

It is a story of adoption. It is a story of the lost being found. It is a story about God.

For the past two summers, Ben Wade has worked as a counselor at Frontier Camp, a Christian camp in Grapeland, Texas. Most of the time, being a camp counselor is pretty straightforward. But the week that the Angel Tree® kids arrive is different.

Writer Zoe Erler reflects on the miracle of Easter: how her questions are answered in the scars of Jesus Christ and in the faith of incarcerated Christians.

Art Hallett was the only one in his teenage group of friends who was never arrested. He credits it to his mother wisely pushing him to enlist in the Air Force at age 17. But his freedom doesn't mean he has  never been to prison.

The first day Darryl Brooks entered Prison Fellowship Academy, he wore the standard DOC-issued white scrubs. Today, he wears khakis and a dress shirt.

For the bulk of the past 10 years, I’ve been on one side of Angel Tree®. As a writer for Prison Fellowship® on a national level, I get to hear and write about all of the amazing things that happen during December and beyond, as children and incarcerated parents around the country reconnect through gifts purchased and delivered by volunteers.

The three months between the murder and his apprehension were a living hell.

"I tried to stay drunk or high to numb out my feelings of worthlessness," admits Bryan Kelley.

On July 7, a young African-American man gunned down five police officers, and injured 11 others, including two civilians, at the conclusion of what had been a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest. The incident followed a series of police shootings of African-American men earlier in the year.