Prison Ministry
SOC Prison Ministry Update
In the late 90’s, I was the chaplain for females at one of our local jails. Two other ladies and I facilitated the School of Christ…
Read MorePrison Ministry Update (January 2021)
Gadsden Correctional Facility Inside Correctional Facility Editors Note: In 2005, Founder of the School of Christ International, B. H. Clendennen, made the decision to provide the School of Christ material free to any prison or inmate that requested it. Since that time, hundreds of thousands of inmates have gone through the SOC course. They either…
Read MoreSOC continues to Change Lives at Angola State Penitentiary
The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is a maximum-security prison farm. It is operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States with 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff, including corrections officers, janitors, maintenance, and wardens. It is located on an 18,000-acre property that was…
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We are seeing a great revival come to the prisons through the School of Christ Correspondence Course. The School of Christ is sent free to all who are currently in prison. If you know of someone who would like to receive the SOC material send us their mailing information. Here are two testimonies we received…
Read MoreFirst Full-Time SOC in Ethiopian Prison by Richard Goebel
We have had a great struggle getting into the prisons of Ethiopia. We have had services, I have preached in the prisons, but to run a full School of Christ has been most difficult. The Lord opened the door for us to run a School in the Hawassa Prison. This School was very difficult and…
Read MoreRikers Prison Report by Pete Spackman
Since February the School of Christ has been going to Rikers Island—New York City’s main jail complex. There are nine different prisons on the island, but we have concentrated on one, the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. It is by far the worst prison on Rikers Island. It is not like any prison I have been…
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I first visited Crossroads Correctional Facility in Shelby, MT eight years ago, preaching and introducing the School of Christ for the first time. The Chaplain that was serving at that time has since retired, but the new Chaplain, Jamie Stiffler, still has volunteers in once a week to conduct the School. We held services at…
Read MorePrison Report by Pete Spackman
It has been twenty-one years this month since I teamed up with Pastor Clendennen to take the message of the cross to the prisons of this world. What an awesome privilege it has been, and continues to be! We started in Russia, then South America, Africa, Europe, and now for the last ten years we…
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In 2004 I received a phone call from an inmate who had been through the School of Christ in Alabama but had been transferred to a private prison in Mississippi. He wanted to know if I could bring the SOC to Mississippi as well. I called the Warden, James Cook, who I had known from…
Read MoreBay Correctional Facility Faith Based Graduation by Dorothy Hilton
On Friday, March 15, 2013, CCA/BCF held Graduation for the School of Christ honoring thirty-two graduates who finished the School of Christ classes in the past six months. This Graduation was Family Night and several of the graduates had family members attend the celebration and share the dinner. The Visitation Park was arranged for family…
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