Answering the call to serve?
Join us as we take in-depth training to learn how we can best serve our local prison ministry and then go out and put into practice what we learned.
This outreach opportunity…
requires training (complete the sign-up link below for more details)
See dates and time details below
is adults only
needs Spanish speakers
is an indoor event
When: Thursday, October 24th & Friday, October 25th
1st Shift: 8:30AM-12:30PM
2nd Shift: 2PM-6:30PM
Arrival Instructions: Plan to meet at the Jail for your shift. Once you arrive, park in the main guest parking lot. You will see the BBQ pit outside in between the two large buildings. Check in to the building at the left.
Learn more about other outreach & volunteer opportunities here: Freedom Outreach
The Collin County Jail Evangelism Event is July 26 & 27. Mark your calendar please! Mandatory Spiritual Enrichment and Training at 7:00am on Friday, July 26 and Saturday, July 27th at 7:30am (for those who do not attend Friday). We will enter the jail about 9:15am both days, and we will depart around 4:30pm each day.
Our goal is to recruit and train 150 volunteers (men and women over 18 years of age) to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with 1200+ men and women at the jail in McKinney. We use athletes and entertainers to prime the pump with not many God references as they take the inmates to the Super Bowl, rodeos, concerts, etc. while they share their testimony, including the "change" they made at some point in their lives. There is NO preaching and no "church" going on during these presentations.
In closing their program, they encourage the inmates to “get with one of my teammates and go through the blue booklet.” So, you are sharing the Gospel with them, including the sinner's prayer of salvation. Once finished, they have heard who Jesus Christ is and have made a decision to pray and receive him or reject him. Either way, you ran your play. You were available for the Lord to use July 26 & 27, you were trained, you showed up, you shared the Good News, you read the sinner's prayer to them and you asked them for a decision. At this point you are finished! Well done good and faithful servant! NOW, it is in God's hands with Jesus and the Holy Spirit calling the person by name.
Goals are:
Volunteers learn to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and their personal testimony and then put it to use by repetition over 2 days in a place hungry for hope. We will run 6 programs for you over the 2 days.
Volunteers then “rinse and repeat” sharing the track and their faith story. Many pray for inmates and their families or read the Bible and talk through it in between programs.
Volunteers go home with confidence to share the Good News as God directs then in everyday life.
The administration really wants more folks coming in to help them while they are locked up because 40-60 go back home each day.
God will call some of the volunteers back to help the jail on a more regular basis with:
Bible study
Drug rehab, like AA/NA or Celebrate Recovery
Job skills
Better citizens and Godly men and woman have a better chance of staying out of trouble.
They just need a hand and mentorship.
Jesus spent 3+ years with 12 men, and then used them to change the world! Where was 2/3's of the New Testament written from? YES! Jails and Prisons.
5. Local churches to be open to receive returning inmates and mentoring them and helping them grow.
What a better way to bring the Light of Christ Jesus to the lost and hurting in this darkening world! We were trained years ago as volunteers and leaders of Bill Glass Ministries, who has been evangelizing America's prisons, jails and juvenile facilities for over 50 years. The Holy Spirit always shows up and Jesus turns hearts of the most evil and vile people in these units. God celebrates as each one is delivered from the devil’s trophy case.
Matthew 28:18-20
Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Matthew 25:34-36
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.
Isiah 6:8
Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?”
I said, “Here I am. Send me.”