The children were headed to the prison's gym where they would meet their incarcerated mothers for a day of fun and memory-making.
For Kennice, a week of summer fun at an Angel Tree® camp was just the beginning.
Pelipost's "Love Your Inmate Day" is a special day dedicated to prisoners and their families on the outside. Read more to find out how you can participate!
"How could I matter? My own dad didn’t want me. He chose drugs over me."
Ice cream flavor developer and "Official Taste Tester" John Harrison shares with Prison Fellowship how he has found a sweet calling in prison ministry.
"It hardly seemed like the weather for thinking about Christmas, but even so, a crowd of men made their way over to our table to fill out Angel Tree applications."
Palmer appeared to be on his way to becoming another tragic statistic. He appeared to be on his way to becoming another tragic statistic—a broken life destined for destruction and possibly prison.
"Prison life is exciting and terrible at the same time," begins Richard in this week's Insider. "There's violence, there's rape—[there are] things that go on that you'll never hear people talk about."
Beau is an Angel Tree Camping® volunteer who spent four years stationed in Hawaii for the military. For three of those years he served as a mentor at Camp Agape, a summer camp founded as a ministry to prisoners' children. Beau has since taken the model of Camp Agape to start a camp in Arkansas.
