PRISON FELLOWSHIP: Charles Colson Hope Awards

Greensboro Native and Almond Connection founder Sheena Beasley to receive 2021 Charles Colson Advocate of Hope Award.

Prison Fellowship to award Lee and Louise Sundet the 2020 Charles Colson Legacy of Hope Award Tuesday in Minnetonka Beach, MN.

Founder of Flikshop® and his mother, the Rev. Dr. Sylvia Bullock, presented with 2020 Charles Colson Advocate of Hope Award

Reps. Doug Collins, R-Ga., and Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., were presented with 2019 Charles Colson Advocate of Hope Award on December 9, 2019.

Prison Fellowship will present the Charles Colson Advocate of Hope Award to justice advocate Mark Holden for faithful advocacy for restorative criminal justice reform.

Prison Fellowship presents Gene Mills with the 2017 Charles Colson Advocate of Hope Award for his role in advancing criminal justice reform in Louisiana.

A version of the following article originally aired as a BreakPoint commentary on August 18, 2016, and is reproduced here with permission. 

Charles W. “Chuck” Colson was packing his bags to go home, having served his time for a Watergate-related offense.

On August 9, 1976—two years to the day that President Richard Nixon resigned from as President of the United States—Charles Colson founded Prison Fellowship. The former Nixon adviser, who spent seven months in a federal correctional facility after pleading guilty to Watergate-related charges, left prison a changed man, committed to “remembering the prisoner” and honoring the God-given value and potential of every person affected by crime and incarceration.