Search Results
Page 45 of 59 — 875 results found.
Posted November 18, 2014
If you haven’t looked at a calendar recently (or, in the case of much of the country, looked out the window or walked to your car in sub-freezing temperatures), winter is fast approaching, and Christmas is just around the corner. And here at Prison Fellowship, that means the Angel Tree Christmas program is well underway, helping to provide gifts—and hope—to children on behalf of their incarcerated parents.
But Angel Tree is not just a seasonal endeavor.
Camp
Posted November 17, 2014
In the conversation about building safer communities, it’s easy to get caught up in the big topics: record-breaking incarceration rates, headline-grabbing crime trends, and large pieces of criminal justice legislation.
But it’s often the littlest ones among us who are hurt the most by crime. Young children do not understand the reasons for a parent’s absence, and older children feel hurt, betrayed, and confused. The incarceration of a parent will have a massive impact on a
Posted November 13, 2014
Don’t look now, but the holiday season is right around the corner. Thanksgiving is only two weeks away, immediately followed by the retail-driven Black Friday and Cyber Monday, encouraging people to go out and start making their Christmas purchases.
And then there is Giving Tuesday.
What is Giving Tuesday?
In the midst of all the craziness of holiday shopping, Giving Tuesday is a day dedicated to giving back. On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, people from around the world
Posted November 13, 2014
My’lon and Montrese
Sharon has never forgotten that New Year’s Eve. She was babysitting her grandsons, My’lon and Montrese, when the phone call came that would change their lives. It was her daughter on the line; she and her husband had just been arrested.
Before Sharon knew it, they’d been sent to prison. Sharon and the boys were suddenly alone.
“I cried for a year, I think,” Sharon recalls. “It’s so hard doing all this by myself.”
But being
Posted November 12, 2014
A version of the following article appeared in the July issue of Pentecostal Evangel, an Assemblies of God publication.
Jim Liske is president and CEO of Prison Fellowship Ministries, which works in prison ministry, advocacy, and Christian leadership. Since assuming his position in 2011, he has overseen Prison Fellowship’s efforts to build the Church inside America’s prison walls, advocate for principles of restorative criminal justice at the state and national levels, and empower churches to influence the
Posted October 28, 2014
A version of the following post originally aired as a BreakPoint commentary.
It was back in 1997, when I was practically a kid writer here at BreakPoint, that I first heard about Prison Fellowship’s amazing Angel Tree program.
I was moved by how much Chuck Colson and the Prison Fellowship staff poured themselves into making sure that thousands and thousands of prisoners’ children received gifts at Christmas time.
Though Chuck rarely got misty eyed, he could when he
Posted October 28, 2014
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs around. It takes all your strength, all your patience, and all your creativity.
But imagine how much harder it gets when the children’s father goes to prison. How does a mom explain his absence to her kids? To her relatives? To her boss? How will she handle all the extra responsibilities that now fall on her shoulders alone?
All the time, we get firsthand accounts of the hardships mothers face
Posted October 15, 2014
Dr. Jeffrey Russell loves helping others.
Every Friday he drives into Tulsa, Oklahoma, to serve dinner and teach a class in Christian doctrine to the homeless and incarcerated.
Russell has been a chiropractor in nearby Sand Springs since 1995, and he sees his profession as another way to help people. After a chiropractor helped him heal from a high school wrestling injury, Russell decided he wanted to do the same for others.
This past winter, Russell connected with
Posted October 2, 2014
Palo Verde Valley Times/JACLYN RANDALL Pictured, left to right: top row – CVSP Warden A.M. Gonzales; Blythe T.A.S.K. co-founders Gail Townsend and Angela Searles; Bags of Love representative Shirley Foster; CVSP Community Resource Manager Kenny Kalian; Blythe Travel Baseball representative Richard Johnson; and CVSP AA Self-Help Sponsor Erin Barnes; bottom row – A.A. Secretary Jason Rivera, A.A. Chairman Marco Galvan, A.A. Treasurer Donyel Brown, former A.A. Secretary Manuel Dunn, and A.A. Chairman Thomas Owen, all
Posted September 10, 2014
[row style=”text-align:center; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: -50px;”][col span=6]
[/col]
[col span=6 class=”header-copy”]
Angel Tree Children Need Jesus This Christmas.
You can help change the life of a prisoner’s child forever!
For Angel Tree children, Christmastime is especially lonely, a time when they miss their parents the most. Each gift of $14.08 you give will help reach an Angel Tree child with a Christmas gift, the Gospel, and a loving message from their absent parent. Will you introduce these innocent children to
Posted August 29, 2014
As their dads emerged from the building, the children ran to jump on them for a big hug. (Photo by Edward Weston)
If you imagine away the barbed-wire fence, it feels just like a family picnic on a sprawling green lawn underneath the late-morning sunshine. But for the parents and children in attendance, this is much more than a picnic; this is the day hope is restored.
On Aug. 16, nearly 30 boys and girls huddled around the entrance of Avery Mitchell Correctional
Posted August 20, 2014
Scottie Barnes (r) receives the 2014 Angel Tree Star of Victory Award from Mary Engle, Prison Fellowship’s director for the Great Lakes/Mid-Atlantic region. (Photo by Edward Weston)
Scottie Barnes knows what it is like to grow up without a father present in her life. Her dad was frequently absent, often imprisoned in various units throughout western North Carolina and the Southeast. By the time she was 13, her father was permanently incarcerated.
Scottie was able to reconcile
Posted August 19, 2014
Find out how ministry to women in prison differs from ministry to men.
Read More
Posted August 19, 2014
Find out why the relationship you build with a prisoner can have a lasting, positive impact on them—and on you.
Posted August 11, 2014
The following story originally aired as a BreakPoint commentary on August 7.
In 1980, the New York Mets selected an 18-year-old baseball phenom, Darryl Strawberry, with the first pick in the Major League draft.
“A worn-out baseball” by Schyler at English Wikipedia
Being a Mets fan in the 1970’s was tough—just ask my BreakPoint colleagues Eric Metaxas and Roberto Rivera. So it’s not an exaggeration to say that many saw the outfielder from Crenshaw High School in LA