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Four incarcerated men study The Life Recovery Bible distributed by Prison Fellowship during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Prison Fellowship The nation’s leading prison ministry has given over 100,000 Bibles in the past nine months to incarcerated men and women across the country amid heightened demand for God’s word during the COVID-19 pandemic. James Ackerman, CEO of Prison Fellowship, the leading Christian ministry serving prisoners and their families, told The Christian Post in an intervie...

Four incarcerated men study The Life Recovery Bible distributed by Prison Fellowship during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Prison Fellowship The nation’s leading prison ministry has given over 100,000 Bibles in the past nine months to incarcerated men and women across the country amid heightened demand for God’s word during the COVID-19 pandemic. James Ackerman, CEO of Prison Fellowship, the leading Christian ministry serving prisoners and their families, told The Christian Post in an in...

Medium-Sized Nonprofits: Cross Pollination Helps Teamwork Bloom, But Pay Falls Short On one side of mid-sized Best Nonprofits sits their smaller counterparts, those with 49 or fewer employees. They are small enough to give outsized operational roles to staff but might not have the funds for major initiatives. On the other side is the large Best Nonprofits -- those with 250 or more employees. These behemoths are better able to provide richer resources for their staff, but individuals are more ...

Prison Fellowship field director Roy Yamamoto | (Photo: Prison Fellowship) The evangelical Christian ministry Prison Fellowship has been named the sixth-best nonprofit to work for in the United States, according to a new report from a leading business publication for nonprofit management.  The NonProfit Times, a publication based in Morris Plains, New Jersey, released its list of the 50 best nonprofits workplaces in a Monday report. Prison Fellowship, which had a reported 243 employees, ranked...

.   “The Board of Prison Fellowship and the senior management team are thrilled Alliance Defending Freedom will operate on the same property and buildings our founder, the late Charles Colson, dedicated to the Lord.” Prison Fellowship has occupied the current location since January of 2005 after outgrowing its Reston, Virginia, location. As part of the sale, an agreement has been reached with ADF for the ministry to lease space in the building for two years. Prison Fellowship has been a ...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Hobby Lobby Joins Prison Fellowship in Effort to Improve Justice Outcomes in Oklahoma Prison FellowshipMarch 10, 2021 GMT Washington, D.C., March 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Prison Fellowship ®, the nation’s largest Christian nonprofit serving prisoners, former prisoners, and their families, has received a multimillion dollar investment from ’ Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. —an American Arts & Craft...

Prison Fellowship and FAMM hosted a panel to discuss the crack cocaine disparity in the criminal justice system on March 9, 2021. | Zoom The worlds largest evangelical prison ministry organization has voiced support for a Democrat-sponsored bill that could eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and cocaine powder in federal sentencing laws that disproportionately affect black Americans. In a reporters roundtable on Tuesday, Prison Fellowship partnered with Families Against M...

.   “The Board of Prison Fellowship and the senior management team are thrilled Alliance Defending Freedom will operate on the same property and buildings our founder, the late Charles Colson, dedicated to the Lord.” Prison Fellowship has occupied the current location since January of 2005 after outgrowing its Reston, Virginia, location. As part of the sale, an agreement has been reached with ADF for the ministry to lease space in the building for two years. Prison Fellowship has been a ...

Celebrate Recovery founder John Baker | YouTube/Screengrab Pastor John Baker, founder of Celebrate Recovery — a global ministry born out of the heart of Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church aimed at helping people recover from addiction and other “hurts, habits, and hang-ups” — has died. The Celebrate Recovery National team shared the news of Baker’s death in a social media statement Tuesday. The cause of death has not yet been announced.  “There are times in life when words are tota...

Virtual Reporters Roundtable to Discuss Restoration of Access to Pell Grants for Incarcerated Students Seeking to Become Productive Citizens News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Prison Fellowship will host a Zoom virtual reporters roundtable on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 from 11–noon (EST) to discuss the impact of the recent actions of the U.S. Congress in restoring access to Pell Grants for incarcerated students as a provision within...