J. R. Woodgates
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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.
The full story is in Gene McGuire’s book, UNSHACKLED, which I have added to my Recommended Readings in Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path.
CLI has distributed thousands of free copies of Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path to inmates all across America.
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.
J. R. Woodgates talks with Jeremy Miller about:
- Christian convicts ministering to unbelieving fellow inmates
- How a prison ministry can go from superficial to supernatural
- Why America’s jails and prisons are so ready for Christian revival
LISTEN NOW TO THE PODCAST (scroll down to Episode 011)
Many prisoners bear (and believe in) ugly identity labels that others have put on them, often beginning in childhood.
Jesus came to “bear our sins in his own body” (see 1 Peter 2:24).
This clever video shows how Jesus can not only erase but replace our labels once we’ve been transformed by him.