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PRISON FELLOWSHIP: Easter

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The Legacy of Failure

In celebration of Prison Fellowship’s 40 years of ministering to prisoners and their families, we will taking a look back at the early days of the ministry and remembering the people and the stories that have helped to make Prison Fellowship the nation’s largest prison outreach.  

By Chuck Colson
March 21, 2016
Chuck Colson | Delaware | Easter | Sam Casalvera
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The Trial of the Ages

Archeologists working in Jerusalem think they might have excavated the site of Jesus’ trial (Mark 15). Fifteen years ago, a team began digging through the layers of an abandoned building near the Tower of David. They believe they have uncovered the foundations of Herod’s Palace, a probable site for Jesus’ famous audience with Pontius Pilate.

By Jim Liske
April 6, 2015
Easter | forgiveness | From the CEO | Good Friday | Jerusalem | Redemption | Trial
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'He's Alive' … Even in Prison: Prisoner Musician Shares Easter Song

On April 19, 2014, Prison Fellowship sponsored an Easter evangelistic event on the yard of Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California.

By Prison Fellowship
April 2, 2015
California | Chowchilla | Easter | George Carter | Guitar | He's Alive | Singing | Valley State Prison
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L.W.O.P.

"I have changed those letters to mean something else. I will love, worship, obey and praise God. Every Christian should serve a sentence of L.W.O.P."

By Rebekah L. Stratton
March 31, 2015
Easter | graduate | indiana state prison | l.w.o.p. | life without parole | lwop | Prison | Prison Fellowship | seminary
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A Father’s Heart

In the Gospels, we get a sense of the profound, loving relationship between God the Father and His Son, Jesus.

Only once do we see the Father and Son separated. As Jesus hangs on the cross between two thieves, with the weight of the world’s sin on His shoulders, He feels the agony of parental absence.

By Jim Liske
March 30, 2015
Easter | Empathy | Redemption | Texas
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Arise!

The word “arise” runs through Scripture like the repetitive chorus of a song.

When the people of Israel were waiting on the east side of the Jordan River, hesitating to enter the Promised Land, their leaders encouraged them, “Arise … for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good” (Judges 18:9).

By Jim Liske
March 9, 2015
Easter | From the CEO | Israel | Paralytic | Promised Land | volunteer
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Out of the Depths

“To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you, LORD my God, brought my life up from the pit.” – Jonah 2:6, NIV

The wayward prophet Jonah had to go into the belly of the whale before He really understood the message of redemption God wanted him to preach in Nineveh.

By Jim Liske
March 2, 2015
Easter | From the CEO | Jonah | volunteer
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Easter in Prison

Last Easter, Prison Fellowship Ministries® President and CEO, Jim Liske, visited the Central Florida Reception, a large prison camp with different wings for prisoners who need hospice care or are too young to be housed with the general population.

In the chapel, Jim preached about Timothy, who grew up without a father, and told the young men, “No one is disqualified from God’s grace.”

By Prison Fellowship
April 16, 2014
Chuck Colson | Easter | Florida | forgiveness | From the CEO
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Frontlines: Prisoners in the Church Choir

In this special Easter edition of the Frontlines video series, Prison Fellowship Ministries President and CEO Jim Liske recounts his recent visit to teach at a church where an inmate choir led the congregation in worship, sharing a beautiful picture of the unity of God’s Kingdom inside and outside prison walls.

By Prison Fellowship
April 3, 2014
Choir | Easter | Resurrection | Unity
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Proclaiming Redemption behind Bars

As we enter a new fiscal year, we look back on one of the biggest moments of 2013 – God’s miraculous work behind bars at Easter!

Prison Fellowship President Garland Hunt prays with an inmate on Easter Sunday.

Over Easter weekend, Prison Fellowship CEO Jim Liske and Prison Fellowship President Garland Hunt shared the Gospel with prisoners in Florida and Texas.

By Prison Fellowship
July 17, 2013
Easter | forgiveness | From the CEO | Garland Hunt | Redemption | Texas
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Living in a Resurrection World

Over Easter weekend I met a young man in a prison infirmary. He wore a Styrofoam helmet to protect his badly damaged skull. His had been terribly incapacitated by the same drunk-driving accident that killed his boyhood friend. As the driver in the accident, this young man was facing a 40-year sentence.

By Jim Liske
April 12, 2013
Easter | Jim Likse | Resurrection
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Never Too Late

When Jesus was ministering near the Jordan River, a messenger came with the news that his friend Lazarus was sick unto death in the town of Bethany. But Jesus was not in a rush to get there. He waited two more days, saying, in essence, “Lazarus is just asleep.

By Garland Hunt
April 5, 2013
Easter | Garland Hunt | Resurrection
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Easter behind Bars Helps Us Understand Redemption

This past Easter, the newly elected Pope Francis made waves by choosing to spend Maundy Thursday washing the feet of young prisoners in a juvenile detention center in Rome.

The pontiff’s decision to visit those behind bars during Holy Week reflects an Easter tradition that has been observed at Prison Fellowship for 35 years.

By Prison Fellowship
April 3, 2013
Easter | Florida | From the CEO | Operation Starting Line
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Monday Morning Coming Down

“Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.”

 – Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

 

Easter morning service was exhilarating and joyous – rousing music, a reading of the familiar but amazing gospel account of Jesus’ resurrection, and an inspiring sermon culminating in a festive Eucharistic celebration. 

By Ronald W. Nikkel
April 1, 2013
Easter | Resurrection
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Watch and Pray

Easter is almost here! Will you keep watch and pray with us?

Carrying on a tradition started by Chuck Colson in the earliest days of Prison Fellowship, President Garland Hunt and CEO Jim Liske will lead teams of staff, volunteers, and supporters to celebrate the Resurrection with prisoners this Easter weekend.

By Prison Fellowship
March 28, 2013
Easter | Prayer
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