As we near the end of the first month of the year 2020, I find it necessary to set aside a moment. I will use this spare moment to settle some of the questions I am often asked. Who will win the Super Bowl this coming Sunday? The people who sell advertising space. Who will… Continue Reading
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Saint John’s Church in South Lake
Saint John’s Church in South Lake has a meaningful ministry to felons in Texas prisons. St. John’s Church Prison Ministry has been present, vital and valid for decades. On Saturday, January 25, 2020, our friends at St. John’s hosted Bill Curry and me at their Leadership meeting. They were kind to give us 30 minutes… Continue Reading
Festivall For The Rest of Ya’ll
I have started 2020 over again. I am now calling this 2020.2. You will understand one cannot begin a New New Year without celebration. I have decided to call this New New Year Celebration, Festivall. It is for the rest of ya’ll. On Sunday morning, January 12, 2020, I could not sleep. We had a… Continue Reading
Chains of Grace: Please go to our Prayer Site
Chains of Grace is a Christ centered, not for profit ministry. We provide re-entry services and supervision for men and women coming from incarceration. We are privately funded, which means we depend on you. Will you pray with us? We have our giving goals. We have our prayer goals. You can help. Please go to… Continue Reading
Chains of Grace: Happy New Decade
My last plea in this decade. Please give us some money. We have a new house (old house, new to us) we are working to put into shape. In 2020 it will open for up to seven men who would stay in prison without us. There is still time to get your donation to us… Continue Reading
Chains of Grace: Help Our Guys Have a Merry Christmas
We have fed them, gifted them and taken the Lord’s Supper to various houses. Some of our men who have little or no travel restrictions can go home to see family this year (and that is real progress). The fellows who cannot go home will gather for meals in our houses. They will lift up… Continue Reading
Chains of Grace: Time Enough to Bless Them Now
This Saturday I accompanied a group from the Midlothian Bible Church to the prison in Venus. Each year this group collects, bags and distributes Christmas bags to all inmates at the local state prison. You can imagine this act of charity takes hours of effort over a period of weeks. God bless the Midlothian Bible… Continue Reading
Chains of Grace: Who We Are and Why We Need You
Chains of Grace is a ministry that provides re-entry services and supervision for men and women coming from incarceration. We are a re-entry ministry. That is, we help persons who are released from prison. Our recidivism (return to prison) rate is very low. Whereas TDCJ must spend up to $134,000 of taxpayer money per year… Continue Reading
Chains of Grace: Add Us to Your Christmas List
This year we helped hundreds of people, men and women, who are involved in the prison system. We helped them, their spouses, their children, even their grandchildren. Watch six stories that span the entire community we serve, and I guarantee your’s needs this as well: Will you help us now? We need 1,000 people who… Continue Reading
Chains of Grace: Please remember our guys and girls at Christmas
Chains of Grace provides reentry services and supervision for men and women coming out of incarceration. We provide safe housing, document retrieval, transportation, access to medical care, good, job placement and Christian care. We are a Christ centered not for profit charitable ministry. All this takes a ton of money. We just bought our fourth… Continue Reading