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Back to Basics: Learning the Value of Integrity Behind Bars

What’s the Prison Fellowship Academy all about? Part 1 of this new blog series highlights integrity, one of the six core values of the Academy. The Academy allows participants to embrace a Gospel-centered worldview and take ownership of their transformation—even in prison, where positive change might otherwise seem impossible.

By Emily Andrews
August 14, 2019
Integrity | nebraska
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Riding High at Blackburn Correctional

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

By Chelsea Magnuson
August 6, 2019
Hope Event | Kentucky | Prison Fellowship Academy
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How Alpha Led a Wiccan Prisoner to Truth

For most of his life, Josiah steered clear of “crazy” Christians who “make no sense,” just like his Wiccan parents told him to. But in prison, he encountered a "presence" he couldn't explain away.

By Grayson Pope
July 31, 2019
California | Prison Fellowship Academy
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A Deeper Relationship: How the Prison Fellowship Academy Shares Hope

  After her addiction sent her to prison, Amber knew she needed help. But recovery programs just didn’t seem to work. She needed something more. She needed a deeper relationship. She needed the Gospel.

By Prison Fellowship
July 3, 2019
Letters from Inside | Minnesota Correctional Facility–Shakopee | Prison Fellowship Academy | Prison Fellowship Insider
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A Soldier for Christ: How Emily Found Purpose and Community Behind Bars

  For years, Emily desired to join the Marines. But her life took a drastically different route. Could the Prison Fellowship Academy help her find her way?

By Emily Harris Greene
June 26, 2019
Letters from Inside | Minnesota | Minnesota Correctional Facility–Shakopee
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When the Healing Begins: How a Life-Changing Program Revealed Amy’s Life Purpose

“I can never make the day of the accident vanish as if it didn’t exist. It happened. But I can be restored.” Amy, a Prison Fellowship Academy graduate, reveals what happened when she stopped running from God and finally began to grow.

By Women of Shakopee
June 19, 2019
Incarcerated Women | Letters from Inside | Minnesota Correctional Facility–Shakopee
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On This Side of the Cross, There’s Only Grace and Mercy

  If you had told Tino 30 years ago that one day he would be a devout Christian, he would have been shocked. But that’s the transformative power of God’s love.

By Emily Harris Greene
May 29, 2019
Carol S. Vance Unit | Prison Fellowship Academy | Texas
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Finding Restoration in a Texas Prison

  "Returning to prison is not nowhere in my future. I’ve given the state of Texas enough of my life."

By Emily Harris Greene
May 22, 2019
education | Pell grant | Texas
Prison Fellowship Volunteers Recognized for National Volunteer Month
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Prison Fellowship Volunteers Recognized for National Volunteer Month

'I fell in love with [volunteering] right away, because there were people in there who needed me. A chance to make a difference—that's what I've been praying for my whole life.'

By Emily Andrews
May 16, 2019
New York | Oklahoma | Texas | Virginia | Volunteers
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Coming Full Circle: Q&A with Former Prisoner Turned Academy Manager

Tammy Franklin has come full circle. A former prisoner, she is now a Prison Fellowship Academy manager at the same facility in which she was incarcerated.

By Emily Andrews
May 14, 2019
Inside Journal | Prison Fellowship Academy
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