God Behind Bars: When God Shows Up
by Jim Gray
There are close to three million prisoners now in the United States and that population is growing at a compounded rate of well over 2 percent a year. What will the future bring?
God’s prompting of the founder, Jake Bodine, and the skyrocketing number of incarcerated men and women in the United States has led directly to the creation of God Behind Bars. It’s a one of a kind prison ministry that asks:
“What if God showed up in prisons?”
Here are some of the features of what makes God Behind Bars (GBB) unique:
- Unique four-step strategy that will allow a person to have full life change instead of some life change.
- Partner with churches and faith-based organizations around the world to stream live, dynamic, high-quality worship experiences into prisons all over the world.
- Online campus called “Church With Inmates” that allows the families of prisoners to see and experience the same service that their loved one is watching from inside the prison.
- Next-generation aftercare program that pledges to walk with and care for each former prisoner who completes the three prerequisite steps. Among some things that will be provided initially by the ministry are temporary living quarters, groceries, gas, a cell phone, clothes, employment training and placement.
- Project 22: based on Proverbs 22:6 launches in the fall of 2011 with the goal of mentoring and ministering to the children of inmates.
Watch this video that tells the story of God Behind Bars
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