J. R. Woodgates
Prison Fellowship and its sister organization, The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, have honored Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path by placing it on their exclusive recommended reading lists for prisoners.
Our lazy American culture of single parenting, sloppy schooling, and a preoccupation with non-stop entertainment, sports, video games and self-gratification has produced an unprecedented number of young men unfit for work, marriage, the military or much else. Fattening frogs for snakes.
The Colson Task Force was established by Congressional mandate in 2014 as a nine‐person, bipartisan, blue-ribbon panel charged with developing practical, data-driven recommendations to enhance public safety by creating a more just and efficient federal corrections system.
As a parent, you have unique authority from God to influence the spiritual atmosphere around your child. Whether he’s living behind bars, under your roof or out on his own, your child will be affected by these intercessory prayers – all based on Scripture promises.
Taken from the Christian newspaper, Herald of His Coming, which your incarcerated loved one can receive by mail for free.
Training inmates to become “field ministers” who serve as counselors for other inmates, lead prayers, assist prison chaplains and generally serve as a calming influence in prison yards. Let’s see more of this happen!
SEMINARIANS PARTNER WITH PRISONERS
A poem by Deon Nowell is featured in Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path. President Obama granted Deon clemency in 2017. Now he’s mentoring other young men in Charleston. Well done, Deon!
He was convicted of white collar crime and sent to a federal prison where he’s remained for nine years…
…leaving her to raise their six children.
More courageous Christian organizations should follow the lead of this Florida group.
After completing their studies, graduates will be placed in prisons around North Carolina to serve as pastoral counselors, augmenting prison chaplains whose numbers were cut a decade ago by state legislators to save money.
Jump Start began at Tyger River in 2007 with just a few volunteers…and now operates in 16 facilities across the South Carolina corrections system.
God can send redeemed sinners back into prison to bring light to other men sitting in darkness as they once did.