Prisoners For Christ Strategic Plan 2024-2030
Equip "To Prepare God's People for Works of Service."
PFC believes in providing spiritual literature and resources to help the inmates grow in the knowledge of God. This is accomplished with our Bible Study Correspondence School, which provides basic and advanced study curriculum to over 2,208 students nationwide; our "Yard Out" newspaper, which is printed to reach the inmates with Christ-centered testimonies; and our tracts which include "What's Next" for the new believer, "Behind Bars" for the more mature believer. As stated, the inmate requires ministry and assistance both inside the walls, and upon release, outside the walls. Prisoners For Christ’s heart, core values, expertise, and passion are in the Visit and Equip sectors where Evangelism and Discipleship is most predominant as our core values. Whereas we understand the work of Support and Transition (below), and at one time sought to actively participate in these sectors. PFC now seeks to familiarize itself with organizations who specialize in these arenas and who are better equipped to carry out these necessary works. Support "Offering Hope by Connecting Families." Support is an active facet of an inmate’s success after release. He or she often has a family. If not a spouse and children, often has parents who, like wives, have spent a lot of their scarce resources on the legal system during their loved one’s incarceration. To that end, PFC has, when able, provided material support to these family members. We also do this internationally, and always have. Again, we will seek to identify like-minded private interests, and also government resources, which can provide tangible support to inmates and their families. We have a heart for this, like we do for all four quadrants. Yet, we leave this and the transition piece up to those better equipped for raising the necessary resources it takes for the distribution of those resources. Transition "Building Bridges for a Productive Return to Society" Prisoners For Christ has direct experience in Transition. In our past we investigated functioning organizations specializing in this necessary work. Being eager to meet such a need, we imported materials and training methods from an out-of-state
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