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By engaging with Prison Fellowship, you could help change a prisoner’s life. It could even change your life. Will you become a part of this story?
Wayne Ganow, a volunteer from Nebraska, had no idea that leading one seminar for prisoners would propel him into 30 years of helping prisoners find Christ and reenter society. “After you begin to see the changes in men’s or women’s lives, you get a hunger and an expectation for things to happen,” he said.
| We are convinced that we are a part of a very grand story that God is crafting with His own pen. It’s a story of radical compassion for the most “unlovable” in our culture. |
Similarly, Oregonian Patti Tasa’s path first intersected with Prison Fellowship when she signed up to mentor an ex-prisoner. It changed her forever.
“The Lord really allowed me to see the face of the prisoner and the heart of the prisoner through that relationship . . . now, [the ex-prisoner is] my friend,” she said.
We are convinced that we are a part of a very grand story that God is crafting with His own pen. It’s a story of radical compassion for the most “unlovable” in our culture.
Only God could think up a story line that would take a ruthless politician and turn him into an advocate for the outcasts of society. Only God could script a plot that would send thousands of regular, law-abiding citizens behind bars to care for prisoners. Only God could take a burglar, a drug dealer, and a murderer, and transform them, not only into contributing members of society, but also into leaders in the church.
It’s a story that is still being written, and you have the chance to enter its plotlines!
Here’s how:
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