Prison Fellowship Missouri field director Pauline Rogers shares with us how she went from prison to prison ministry.
February 2, 2018
Written by Pauline Rogers
For the past two summers, Ben Wade has worked as a counselor at Frontier Camp, a Christian camp in Grapeland, Texas. Most of the time, being a camp counselor is pretty straightforward. But the week that the Angel Tree® kids arrive is different.
May 9, 2017
Written by Zoe Erler
She walked with a limp as she packed the car. She has walked with a limp for a long time and says she doesn't notice it much anymore. Although I did as she placed heavy boxes loaded with strawberries, cheese, and a graduation cake into her car.
April 6, 2017
Written by Mary Ellen Armbruster
A version of this post originally appeared on the West Belmont Place website, and is used here with permission.
Jim Heigl and Tanie Guy prepare to help bake 600 chocolate chip cookies that will be shared inside prison.
Executive Chef Chris Ferrier of the West Belmont Place Event Center in Leesburg, Virginia, opened his kitchen to volunteers from Prison Fellowship for the baking of 50 dozen chocolate chip cookies.
May 4, 2016
Written by Lori Stertz
I visit prisons frequently, and rarely do I feel uncomfortable. When the prison staff will permit it, I shake hands with and even embrace incarcerated men without fear. But one recent experience left me feeling shaken.
After a worship service in a prison auditorium, I was taken to F Block, a multi-tier roundhouse where the prison’s most violent and hardened residents are kept.
September 6, 2015
Written by Jim Liske
A young woman I met recently was 22 years old. Her adult life had barely begun, but she had already done quite a bit of hard living. She was one of several children born to an overburdened mom. Her dad was not around to help.
June 23, 2014
Written by Jim Liske
They say that reading opens up new worlds. The opposite is also true: not reading shuts out worlds waiting to be explored. Sixty-to-eighty percent of men and women in U.S. prisons are functionally illiterate and one in four has a learning disability.
May 1, 2014
Written by Steve Rempe
Are you excited about prison ministry, but feeling a little skittish about going inside a prison? That’s totally understandable. To help you prepare, we’ve put together a two-page list of general safety guidelines for in-prison volunteers.
May 1, 2014
Written by Steve Rempe
A prisoner I’ll call Jared is getting ready to be one of the first graduates of a new Prison Fellowship pre-release unit. This is his third time behind bars. He has spent most of his life as a drug dealer and a petty thief, governed by that troublesome four-letter word: self.
April 14, 2014
Written by Jim Liske
When fear and insecurity fill our hearts, we respond with selfish indifference to the needs of our neighbors. But when faith rules our lives, when we have wrestled with God and found Him true, we become secure in His ability to care for us, and we cease to doubt and fear.
March 19, 2014
Written by Jim Liske