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We Care Prison
Crusade-Alabama
We
Care Prison Crusade-Alabama
Each year for the
last 27 years, We Care Program has conducted a prison crusade in Alabama.
Starting at Fountain Correctional Center in Atmore in 1978, the event has
grown over the years. This year, the Lord willing, volunteers from over 100
different churches and as many as 20 different states and provinces will be
taking the Gospel message to eighteen prisons (15 men's & 3 women's) in
Atmore, Montgomery, Birmingham and Troy areas, home to 17,858 inmates.
We Care’s long-standing relationship with the Alabama Department of
Corrections gives them the freedom to visit the interiors of these prisons in a
way that is both rare and unique in breadth and scope.
Following a day
of orientation, volunteers will
gather each morning in regional groups for breakfast, worship, and teaching.
Following the morning’s activities, teams will then disperse to their
respective prisons to spend the remainder of the day.
Volunteers canvass the prison yards, dormitories (allowed in most
prisons), hall ways, and eating areas witnessing, encouraging, praying, playing
sports, building friendships, and inviting men and women to the evening chapel
service. Each night a different
musical group and evangelist offer the Hope of the gospel in a very dark
environment.
The impact of
this ministry is far-reaching. An
unusual sense of calm covers over the prison during the crusade and beyond;
officers are encouraged, Christian inmates are challenged, and sinners meet God.
Volunteers, reminded of their own inadequacies, depend on God in greater
than usual ways, find freedom in service and worship, and experience an aspect
of the kingdom living not common to most church-goers.
How
can you be a part of this mission effort? Pray. Experience has
showed that a network of stay-at-home prayer volunteers is the key to spiritual
breakthroughs during the crusade. In addition each team member has enlisted a
personal intercessor who will be in communication with the team member and also
receive bulletins with specific request and praises from various prisons during
the crusade.
Schedule:
January 7
(Saturday): Travel to Alabama. In
the evening, a light supper will be
followed by a musical program, ministry overview
and testimonies from We Care staff.
January 8
(Sunday): Day of worship, teaching,
orientation, training, and fellowship.
January 9-13
(Monday-Thursday): Prison Crusade
January 14
(Friday): Travel home
Team from
Powhatan
· Rachel Brenneman
· Rebekah Cloud
· Pat Hertzler
· Pres Nowlin
· Frank Vaughn
· Donna Wyatt
Traveling
with the team will also be Margaret
Rohrer and Ruth Showalter (Doris’s sister) from Harrisonburg who will be
helping with the cooking.
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