12/23/2024
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.
Read more: https://cbn.com/news/us/they-were-just-weeping-god-behind-bars-reports-140-female-inmates-baptized-new-hope
