To love prisoners in the name of Jesus Christ. To help them grow in the Christian faith. To help prepare them for their transition into society, with prayer and guidance of the Holy Spirit!

1. "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me. ...Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me." Matthew 25:35, 36, 40.

   Many times this passage has stimulated some feelings of guilt for me because I have not myself directly done some of the things Christ mentions here. But I have come to know that in the Body of Christ when we support one another in feeding the hungry and thirsty, visiting the sick and imprisoned, welcoming strangers or any of the things Christ tells us about; we also have personally done "those" things unto Christ.
   
   - by an unnamed prison ministry volunteer
   
   

2. When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 'Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?' He said to him, '"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."' Matthew 24:34-39.

3. 85% of prisoners who go through a faith based program while in prison never go back after being released.
   
   
4. I really felt forgiveness that first night you came to be with me.
   
   - by an unnamed former inmate