TEACHING PRISONERS
BCS
Our Bible Study Correspondence School (BCS) is a ministry that serves over 1,900 inmates in all fifty States who wish to learn more about God and His Word. This Bible-based curriculum increases in difficulty over 17 Units and 130 Lessons. Teams of PFC Volunteers review each lesson and write encouraging comments for each answer in each lesson. We encourage writing a short prayer at the end of each lesson, and asking a blessing over each student. Then the reviewed lesson and the following lesson are mailed back to the student. For some prisoners, this is the ONLY correspondence they receive. As a sign of their tremendous accomplishment, prisoners are sent a Certificate of Completion when they complete each unit.
TUMI
In 2014, Prisoners For Christ launched the TUMI (The Urban Ministry Institute) curriculum at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR.) This is a four-year course of intense study that provides seminary-level classes through a module-based curriculum with courses in Biblical Studies, Theology and Ethics, Christian Ministry, and Urban Missions. In 2023, TUMI published shorter versions of their curriculum to meet the needs of short-term prisoners. PFC has a dedicated TUMI Site Coordinator who oversees the expansion of this incredible curriculum to more states in the US under the PFC banner. The International Bible Institute (IBI) was created to fill the void for quality discipleship curriculum for prisoners in developing countries. In America, PFC offers the Bible Study Correspondence School (BCS) for prisoners to draw close to God while serving their time. Whereas inmates in America complete their lessons and send them back to PFC for grading, prisoners in third world prisons do not have the luxury of sending their lessons through the mail to be graded. Thus was created a Bible Institute to be an onsite school within the prisons. We have volunteer facilitators who travel each week to a particular institution to instruct the students. Our first two schools were opened in Nigeria in 2018. As of December 2024, we have six IBI schools operating in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Pakistan.
IBI
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