PRISON FELLOWSHIP BLOG: Women’s Ministry

Create: New Beginnings, Prison Fellowship's unique restorative art program for incarcerated women, recently celebrated a graduation in Oklahoma.

An in-prison sewing club—which includes several Prison Fellowship Academy® participants—is helping to protect Oklahoma City from COVID-19, one handmade mask at a time.

For Anh, stepping into a California prison felt like the end of a long, dark road. She was stunned when a stranger told her the meaning of her name—and even more shocked when she discovered the secret to peace behind bars.

Before co-founding the women’s prison ministry Daughters of Destiny with her husband Mel, Annie Goebel was looking for a happy ending in all the wrong places.

With her arms bruised and her eyes sunken, Kellie hardly recognized her own reflection.

And the truths that set me free. Annie Goebel shares her experience behind bars on the spiritual needs of incarcerated women.

"I just wanted somebody to tell me that I had value, and tell me to stop sticking a needle in my arm."