PRISON FELLOWSHIP BLOG: Hope Events

It takes courage to be baptized—especially when you’re a prisoner. But that didn’t stop a group of men inside one Texas prison from stepping out in faith.

A champion bareback rider and a wild horse named Sushi share the Gospel with Kentucky prisoners.

Prison Fellowship recently partnered with Hillsong NYC to bring its worship band inside Rikers Island Detention Center in New York City. The result was “amazing to see.”

Annie Goebel and her daughter know from experience what it’s like to be separated from your loved ones because of incarceration. At a recent Hope Event in South Dakota, the mother and daughter teamed up to share their testimony of the God’s restoration in their lives.

'Your past doesn't disqualify you from the Kingdom. As a matter of fact, it qualifies you for it.'

In this Easter message of second chances and redemption, Prison Fellowship president and CEO James Ackerman looks back at Charles Colson's legacy.

This Easter, the name of Jesus will be proclaimed in some of the darkest corners of America.

Christian artist and Grammy-award winner Lauren Daigle went behind bars with Prison Fellowship for face-to-face time with incarcerated women.

On a prison yard heavy with gang activity, a public commitment to Christ can be a bold display.

Alissa had no hope, no purpose, only a life of pain. In prison she learned that God made her for a purpose - to glorify Him.

"Prison is a very volatile place. In one second, everything can change."

Hope Events are one of the backbones of Prison Fellowship’s ministry—but the idea came from a corrections and civil rights leader.

At one of the many prisons of Cañon City, Colorado, a former prisoner offered hope to another. It was like watching one beggar leading another to bread.