PRISON FELLOWSHIP BLOG: Hope Events

Church on the Move to host Hope Event on Sunday evening, featuring Richard Acuna, Serena Steenjoldt, and live streamed into Roswell Correction Center.

Prison Fellowship shares the Good News behind bars through hope events.

Jeff Walker finished a 13-year prison sentence in South Carolina. He got a job, his own place, and custody of his daughter. On Good Friday he’s going back to prison—as a musical artist with a message of hope for the men he left behind.

When Raúl stopped hiding in Costa Rica and returned to the United States, he knew prison awaited him. He anticipated the trial, the sentencing, and the loneliness. But God had more in store.

Raúl fled Communism, and then arrest. To build a new life, he would have to face his consequences.

From the ministry’s first-ever virtual Easter celebration to socially distanced Hope Events safely conducted outside the prison fence, Prison Fellowship is finding new ways to continue to bring the hope of the Gospel to incarcerated men and women.

“I was trapped in my own mindset. I was trapped into thinking that I had to be something that society said I had to be, instead of being what God said I was.”

New Prison Fellowship partnership with platinum selling artist Lecrae opens door to first prison event since COVID-19 pandemic began at St. Clair prison in Springville, AL.

When the Spirit of God moves, even the toughest of prisoners cannot stand in His way.

COVID-19 forced Blackburn Correctional Center to close its doors to visitors, but that didn’t stop dedicated volunteers and DOC staff from serving incarcerated men.

COVID-19 may have closed America’s prisons, but it can’t shut out the hope of the Jesus. We are seeing new and innovative ways developing to share the Gospel with the incarcerated.

For more than 40 years, Prison Fellowship has celebrated Easter behind bars with the incarcerated. This year, we are offering a virtual Easter event.

Natalie Grant, Belonging Co., and Prison Fellowship Bring the Gospel to a Women’s Prison in Tennessee

The first time James J. Ackerman, Prison Fellowship’s president and CEO, visited San Quentin State Prison was to see a man on death row.

Not much changes day to day in a prison. But Prison Fellowship Hope Events, like recent ones in Texas, give refreshment and life-changing truth to men and women who need a new beginning. “I’m singing their song. I’ve been a drug addict, a criminal, a convict. I’ve come out on the other side because of my relationship with Jesus.”