TEACHING INMATES
BCS
Our Bible Study Correspondence School (BCS) is a ministry that serves over 2,600 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 them. For some inmates, this is the ONLY correspondence they receive. As a sign of their tremendous accomplishment, inmates are sent a Certificate of Completion when they complete each unit. 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. Although COVID-19 has shut down TUMI temporarily, PFC has been assured by the prison Chaplains that TUMI is an important program and will be on the short list of programs to return once the facility reopens. The International Bible Institute (IBI) was created to fill the void for quality discipleship curriculum for inmates in developing countries’ prisons. In America, we have the Bible Study Correspondence School for inmates to draw close to God while serving their time. We desperately needed a method of discipleship for inmates suffering in the developing world’s prisons. Where 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 onsite within the prisons. We have volunteer facilitators that travel each week to a particular institution to instruct the students. Our first two schools were opened in Nigeria in 2018. The Nigerian government has heard about these schools and is very interested in expanding to many more institutions in the years to come. We have interest from countries such as Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Madagascar.
TUMI
IBI
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