Prisoners For Christ Strategic Plan 2024-2030
Letter from the Board Chairman
My Beloved, It is with profound joy and gratitude to our Lord Jesus Christ, the Righteousness of God, that I look back upon all that God has done through Prisoners For Christ in the lives of incarcerated men, women, and youth, as well as within my own life! My call to prison ministry came in 1978, after becoming a Christian at age 19 in 1977. I was leading sports teams inside the Monroe Reformatory, where a former schoolmate was imprisoned. We played sports as a ministry year-round, calling ourselves the Minutemen, because we’d pull a team together at the last minute! It was while playing softball in prison, standing in right field, that a presence came over me. Everything got quiet, and as I beheld men walking in the distance, I had an instant love for the inmate. The Spirit of God told me I’d be involved in prison ministry. That was 45 years ago. After being a part of two short-lived church-based jail ministries, God led me to Prisoners For Christ. That was in 1991. Since then, by God’s grace, with PFC I have ministered in every prison in Washington State. Internationally it’s been my privilege to be a senior group leader, and a veteran of 25 foreign campaigns. Prisoners For Christ is a full-time dedicated prison ministry equipping men and women to experience long-term consistent and fruitful ministry to the prisoner. We minister locally in the United States, and internationally to primarily the developing world - Central and South America, Asia and Africa. The sun truly never sets on PFC! The Strategic Plan becomes our valuable road map to achieving our mission by leveraging our strengths, taking advantage of opportunities, minimizing our weaknesses, and guarding against threats. The Strategic Plan is a pro-active plan of action embracing our values, our expertise, our passion, our vision, and incorporating them into a road map for success. Our board has three responsibilities – we call them S-O-P – Strategy, Oversight, Policy. The strategic plan fulfills one of those key responsibilities. Regarding oversight, we meet four times annually, with ad hoc meetings as required throughout the year. We set policy based on our environment, mission, opportunities, goals and values.
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