Over the last three months, a ministry that works to restore the lives of inmates through faith-building outreach programs has baptized more than 140 women who are locked up behind bars.
Women ages 16 and up are having their lives transformed by the power of God’s redemptive love because of the work of God Behind Bars, a ministry that reaches “the most unchurched” population in the United States – inmates.
As CBN News has reported, the ministry is on a mission to reach the more than 2.3 million people in the prison system.
So far, they have shared the Gospel with more than one million people who are incarcerated.
“We will stop at nothing to ensure every inmate in the U.S. has direct and personal access to the Gospel. We want to help them grow their faith, heal trauma and emotional wounds, break addictions and cycles, and allow every person behind bars to step into their calling as sons and daughters of the Most High,” organizers explain.
Last month, inmates lined up at the largest women’s prison in Colorado to give it all to Jesus.
“We were approved to do the first baptisms ever allowed in this prison,” the ministry explained.
One woman could not contain her joy as she was dunked in an inflatable pool during the water baptism – a symbolic event that is a public declaration of a person’s belief in Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection and their commitment to live a new life in Him.
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“Only you Jesus can make a way. Only you Jesus can shine your light in the darkest places like prison. Jesus bless this woman as she continues to walk with you behind bars,” the ministry expressed in a post.
God Behind Bars has been so successful in reaching millions with the hope of the Gospel because of how they structure their outreaches.
“We create satellite campuses in prisons and our whole mission is to introduce inmates to Jesus,” Isaac Holt, Director of Innovation for God Behind Bars, told CBN News.
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In 2021, the ministry released its PandoApp – a faith-based app, that gives prisoners access to worship music and sermons on a tablet. So far, 415,912 inmates have used the app.
At an undisclosed prison facility in mid-November, 300 incarcerated women packed into a small gymnasium to praise God.
“Over 70 women gave their lives to Jesus!! Hundreds came up to get prayer and confess sin! Revival filled this place as women {wept},” the ministry shared on Instagram. “Jesus is breaking the chains of the incarcerated and they are finding freedom in Christ. Revival is here!!”
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And while most of the women are going to spend the next 10 years to life locked up in prison, the joy of finding Christ in prison is giving them true freedom, the non-profit shares.
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“[Because] of Jesus they are FREE!! Jesus is the WAYMAKER for these women,” GBB writes.
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