Prison Fellowship

  • DONATE
    • One-Time
    • Monthly
    • Angel Tree
    • Other Ways to Give
  • GET INVOLVED
    • All Options
    • Subscribe
    • Angel Tree Christmas
    • Start a Fundraiser
    • Pray With Us
    • Justice Action Center
    • Share on Social
Search
  • STORIES
    • Stories
    • Blog
    • Videos
    • The Restoration Series [Videos]
  • WHAT WE DO
    • Why Help Prisoners?
    • What We Do
    • In-Prison
      • Prison Fellowship Academy
      • In-Prison Programs
      • Hope Events
      • Inside Journal
      • Women’s Ministry
      • Create: New Beginnings
    • Angel Tree
      • Register your church or group for Angel Tree
      • Prison Fellowship Angel Tree
      • Angel Tree Christmas
      • Angel Tree Camping
      • Angel Tree Sports Camp
    • Justice Reform
      • Justice Reform
      • Second Chance Month
      • News & Updates
      • Sign the Justice Declaration
      • Get a Copy of Outrageous Justice
    • Warden Exchange
    • Church Partners
    • Corporate Partnerships
    • Preparing Prisoners for Reentry
    • Research and Evaluation
      • Good Citizenship Model®
  • RESOURCES
    • Subscribe to Our Email
    • Support for Friends and Family of Prisoners
      • Resources for Friends and Family of Prisoners
      • Coping with Incarceration
      • Resources for Prisoners
      • Resources for Children of Prisoners
      • Supporting Successful Prisoner Reentry
      • Subscribe To The Hope Connection
    • Resources for Churches and Volunteers
      • Resources for Churches and Volunteers
      • In-Prison Ministry
      • Reentry Ministry
      • Family Ministry
      • Justice Reform
      • Mentoring Ministry
    • Angel Tree Coordinator Training
    • Resources for Chaplains
    • Resources for D.O.C.
    • Justice Reform Resources
    • Create: New Beginnings Book
    • Share on Social
  • ABOUT US
    • Our Beliefs
    • Mission & Vision
    • Financials
      • Financials
      • 2024 Annual Report
    • Employment
    • Contact Us
    • In The News
    • Leadership
    • Chuck Colson
      • About Chuck Colson
      • The Charles Colson Hope Awards

PRISON FELLOWSHIP: forgiveness

Wendi Johnson
  • Feature Stories
  • Prison & Prisoners
Forgiving Her Husband’s Killers, One Batch of Cookies at a Time

Wendi Johnson never thought she'd find herself baking cookies for prisoners. Not after what she'd been through.

By Emily Andrews
January 19, 2017
forgiveness | In-Prison Ministry | Now What? | NowWhat.org | prison ministry | Wendi Johnson
Forgive feature
  • Feature Stories
  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
Year in Review: A Day of Responsibility … and Forgiveness

For 40 years, Prison Fellowship® has been going into correctional facilities, sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with those behind bars, and offering the hope of true transformation. Through the use of Bible-based programing, and with the help of thousands of committed volunteers, lives are being changed, hope is being restored, and darkness is being replaced with the promise of a future.

By Prison Fellowship
December 26, 2016
forgiveness | Pennsylvania | Remorse | Responsibility | Year in Review
How a Deaf Man Heard the Voice of God in Prison - feature touching Bible
  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Feature Stories
How a Deaf Man Heard the Voice of God in Prison

Charles* is a prisoner who is serving a long sentence in a state prison. He attended weekly Bible study in the prison, not because he had any interest in God, but because the Bible study gave him some social time with outside folk who “spoke” his language—American Sign Language (ASL)—and it broke the boredom of his daily routine.

By Ron Friedrich
September 27, 2016
deaf | forgiveness | In Prison
Forgive feature
  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Feature Stories
A Day of Responsibility … and Forgiveness

Cindy Sanford is the author of  Letters to a Lifer: The Boy ‘Never to be Released.’  Visit her website at letters2alifer.blogspot.com.

He sat in the front row, a light skinned black man with long, slender braids streaked with gray. There was a gentle, compassionate energy about him that touched me.I

By Cindy Sanford
August 4, 2016
forgiveness | Pennsylvania | Remorse | Responsibility
  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
Woman (and Daughter) Forgive Husband’s Killer

Twelve years ago, Patty O’Reilly’s husband was killed by an intoxicated driver. Now over a decade later, she has made it through a journey from anger and hatred to forgiveness and a new found love of life. She reflects on her experience with Reader’s Digest.

By Breanna Atkinson
June 10, 2016
Creating a Constructive Prison Culture | forgiveness | Patty O'Reilly | Reader's Digest | reconciliation
  • Angel Tree
“God Sent Angel Tree to Relieve Me of That Hate”

Every year, we look forward to receiving letters from those who were touched by Angel Tree during the most recent Christmas season. Particularly, we love hearing from prisoner parents who express how Angel Tree helped strengthen or rebuild a relationship with their children.

By Zoe Erler
April 26, 2016
Angel Tree | Family | forgiveness
  • Prison & Prisoners
Reconciliation, Ten Years Later

At Prison Fellowship, we often talk about the significance of forgiveness and reconciliation—between prisoners and members of their families, between offenders and their victims. Recently, Liz Stanosheck, a member of our field staff, shared a pretty amazing story about a situation in which she was the victim.

By Zoe Erler
April 13, 2016
forgiveness | reconciliation
  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
Forgiveness for the Infamous

He’s one of the most notorious men in recent history.  When Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon outside the Dakota apartment building on a cold December evening in Manhattan in 1980, his name was added to a list of infamy:  Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sihran Sihran, John Hinckley.

By Steve Rempe
March 24, 2016
forgiveness | John Lennon | Ken Babbington | Mark David Chapman | Mercy
  • From the CEO
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
Thanking God for Prison

On paper, my nephew should never have become addicted to drugs. He was a bright young man raised in a wonderful home by godly parents. And yet, he traded it all in for his substance abuse, leaving his heartbroken family behind when he went to prison.

By Jim Liske
December 7, 2015
Christmas | forgiveness | From the CEO | Prison Fellowship | Restoration | Thanksgiving
  • From the CEO
  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
  • Reentry
Better than 100 Sermons

Ron and Phil sat side-by-side on a platform, sharing about the decades that their life stories have intertwined. The journey began when Ron, then a drug addict desperately seeking cash, shot and killed Phil’s father.

After Ron pulled the trigger, he went to prison.

By Jim Liske
November 3, 2015
forgiveness | From the CEO | Prison Fellowship | Reentry
  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
  • Reentry
A Mother’s Forgiveness

In 1993, a teenager named Oshea Israel shot and killed 20-year-old Laramiun Byrd at a party both were attending in Minneapolis.  Israel was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for second-degree murder, while the mother of the victim was sentenced to life without her only child.

By Steve Rempe
July 22, 2015
forgiveness | Laramiun Byrd | Mary Johnson-Roy | Minneapolis | Minnesota | Oshea Israel
  • From the CEO
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
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
  • Angel Tree
  • Feature Stories
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
A Family Reunited

Rocio remembers it like it was yesterday. “One day there was a knock on our door,” she says. When she answered, a volunteer from a local church told her that he had been sent on behalf of her husband and Angel Tree. “He told me he had gifts for our kids from their daddy,” Rocio recalls.

By Prison Fellowship
October 8, 2014
Angel Tree | Christmas | Family | forgiveness | incarceration | Prison Fellowship | prisoner | restore
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
Prison and Salvation

The following post originally appeared as a BreakPoint radio commentary.

If I asked you what prison and salvation have in common, chances are you would draw a blank. I know I would.

But the answer, according to philosopher and theologian Stephen H.

By Eric Metaxas
September 10, 2014
Breakpoint | forgiveness | Prison | salvation | Stephen Webb
  • Angel Tree
  • Feature Stories
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
A Day of Hope for Prisoners and Their Children

On Aug. 16, nearly 30 boys and girls gathered around the entrance of the medium-security Avery Mitchell Correctional Facility in the beautiful mountains of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, to spend a day with someone they'd been missing lately: their incarcerated fathers.

By Rebekah L. Stratton
August 29, 2014
Angel Tree | Forgiven Ministry | forgiveness | love | One Day with God | Prison | Prison Fellowship | prison ministry | prisoners' children | Scottie Barnes | star of victory
  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »

SELECT A TOPIC

  • Advocacy & Reentry
  • Angel Tree
  • Families of Prisoners
  • Feature Stories
  • From the CEO
  • Hope Events
  • Inside Journal
  • Press Releases
  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Prison Fellowship Academy
  • Prison Fellowship International
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
  • Reentry
  • Second Chance Month
  • Uncategorized
  • Video
  • Warden Exchange

MOST POPULAR

The California Prison Where Hope is Alive and Well

April 9, 2025

My Story: Tynecia

April 9, 2025

The Pastor Who Got a Second Chance

April 2, 2025

PRISON FELLOWSHIP IN THE NEWS

View our latest press releases and hear what other publications are saying about Prison Fellowship and our programs.

    ND Attorney General Calls for More Prison Time: Opponents Say Spend More on Police
    How the Prison Fellowship Academy Transforms Lives in Oklahoma
    Two Dozen Women Graduate from Life-Changing Prison Fellowship Program
    How Prison Fellowship Academy Transforms Lives in Oklahoma
VIEW MORE NEWS

LATEST VIDEOS

WATCH ALL VIDEOS

Join our online community

Facebook Facebook X (Twitter) X (Twitter) Instagram Instagram YouTube YouTube LinkedIn LinkedIn
PF®
PFM®

RECOMMENDED LINKS

  • Ways to Donate
  • Inspirational Stories
  • Angel Tree
  • Prison Fellowship Academy
  • Justice Reform

RESOURCES

  • For Families & Friends of Prisoners
  • For Churches & Angel Tree Volunteers
  • Warden Exchange

JOIN RESTORATION PARTNERS AND WITNESS GOD RESTORE LIVES

Restoration Partners give monthly to bring life-changing prison ministry programs to incarcerated men and women across the country.

 

JOIN NOW
  • CONTACT US
  • EMPLOYMENT
  • PRIVACY
  • FINANCIALS
© 2025 PRISON FELLOWSHIP®

Angel Tree®, Angel Tree Camping®, Angel Tree Sports CampTM, and Warden Exchange® are programs of Prison Fellowship®.