From Pain to Purpose

10/14/2026

After the senseless loss of her daughter, Meagan, in a DUI crash, Renee felt deep anger toward Eric, the man responsible for not one, but two, deaths—Meagan and her friend, Lisa.
Today, however, Eric and Renee stand side by side. When they share their story and Renee hugs Eric, there is never a dry eye in the room.

Duane and Cindy Mullett have met Renee and Eric during their years of ministry. Duane says of Renee’s forgiveness, “Only God could do that.”

Eric and Renee now volunteer to carry the message of From Pain to Purpose. Their story is Scripture in real life: “You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.” Events in our lives change us, and how they change us is our choice. Renee chose forgiveness. Eric chose to receive it and give it away.

We see the same choice made behind prison walls, where men and women take responsibility, forgive, and receive forgiveness. A head profession of faith becomes a heart embraced faith, and they carry that forgiveness into their dorms as missionaries behind bars.
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From Pain to Purpose PO Box 275, Penrose, NC 28766 | [email protected] | fromp2p.com

10/05/2026

The service tonight will be live streamed! You are welcome to join us. The Mullett Family, Grant Bontrager and Chaplain Prevatt. Join us at 6:30 EST

09/25/2026

“I tried that. It didn’t work.”
That’s what we hear sometimes from men and women behind bars when they first hear about Jesus. God is all good, all powerful, all knowing — so when that question comes up, we sit with it together and look at what’s really going on in their lives.
Every year, we get the privilege of spending 40 hours with 60 inmates in a single week — creating a safe place, then helping them unpack what’s actually in their heart. We watch them grieve the pain they’ve carried, and move forward into forgiveness and responsibility. Three or four months later, we come back for two more days.
Twenty to twenty-five volunteers walk through that process with them, breaking into twelve small groups to process pain most of us will never fully understand. And when we can look someone in the eye and say, “God loves you. God has a plan. God has a purpose for your life,” it’s amazing to watch them embrace an almighty God.
None of this happens without the people who stand behind it. We’re adding a fourth prison this next year, on top of the three we’ve served faithfully for years. If God’s laying it on your heart, a monthly gift — $20 a month and up — gives our board something solid to plan around as we step into that.
Watch Duane’s full update, and give. Link in first comment.
Duane D. Mullett · [email protected] · fromp2p.com ·
PO Box 275, Penrose, NC 28766

09/14/2026

What are men behind bars really hungry for?

Chaplain Prevatt sees it every day inside a Florida state facility: guys who show up not out of routine, but because they're searching. "They're hungry for truth," he says. "They're hungry for hope." That hunger is what keeps him walking back in — "it's like the mission field's right there."

This October, we get to carry that same message home to Ohio and Indiana. Chaplain Prevatt is joining us at three events, alongside Grant Bontrager, who'll share his story of forgiveness and trusting God even through the hardest circumstances. "It challenges my heart every time," Duane says. "How I need to choose to forgive — how God brings glory through ugly things."

📅 Oct. 5, 6:30 PM — Still Waters Church Gym, Georgetown, OH 📅 Oct. 6, 5:30 PM — Banquet at Bethel Fellowship, Millersburg, OH (reservations required) 📅 Oct. 7, 6:30 PM — Fair Haven Mennonite Church, Goshen, IN

Would you come sit with us? Banquet reservation and full story links in the comments.

From Pain to Purpose PO Box 275, Penrose, NC 28766 | [email protected] | fromp2p.com

08/24/2026

"What does it look like to be a true family of God?"
Duane saw it up close during a 450-mile trip to a North Florida prison ministry intensive — and it wasn't what he expected.
One morning, twenty inmates gathered with him around a table. Among them was a man whose first parole hearing isn't until 2071. "That's his life right there," Duane said.
But then came the moment that stopped him. Days later, another man in that same small group was released after five years. Everyone celebrated — including the man who won't go home for decades.
"The one man sitting there knowing his release date was 2071 was still rejoicing that this man was going home," Duane said. Kyra was moved. "That's what a true family of God looks like."
Kyra saw the trip from a different angle. She'd always preferred prison services to church ones — “they're just all tuned in,” she says of the men, “they clap after every little thing.” But after this service, a chaplain and an ex-inmate gathered the family in the back of the room and prayed over them. "I was just like, okay, yeah, I do like churches," she said. "It was really special."
Twenty men around a table. Two hundred people in a gym turned sanctuary. Sixty men going deeper into their faith over three days. This is what going deeper, not broader looks like.
Would you pray with us as we figure out the next step?
Full story — link in the first comment.

08/12/2026

His mother called one day, just wanting to see him. He told her he'd catch a visit next month.
She died before that visit came.
This man carried a drug addiction for years before it cost him the one thing he couldn't get back. The last words he ever heard from his mother were, “Son, I love you and I forgive you for the things that you've done, but the world's not going to love you like I loved you … you need to grow up and realize.”
That call became the turning point of his life. “The power of God delivered me,” he told us. Three years later, he's still walking in it: “I've been three years drug-free through the power of God.”
His word to anyone carrying pain of their own: “Don't allow that to push people away. Let them into your life” — before, like his mother, the chance is gone.
Hear him tell the whole story:

Watch a powerful story of how a life can become new!

08/12/2026

For fifteen years, one man carried a locked room inside him.
He told us that when he first became a Christian, he sensed there was something dark inside him — so he pictured Jesus locking it away in a room in the basement of his heart. For fifteen years, that room stayed shut. “Anytime I got mad,” he said, “I could hear the door rattling in the basement, the lock on the door. I can hear the demon screaming. He wanted to get out.”
Then, during a Pain to Purpose intensive, something shifted. He went back to check on that room — and found it wasn't there anymore. “That room's gone. Praise God.” In its place, he asked God for something new. “I prayed to God and asked God to create me a clean heart,” he said. “Not only is it clean, but now it's soft.”
The man who used to isolate himself, who didn't trust people, now says love just comes out of him. Only Jesus can do that.
Watch him tell it in his own words:

Hear an inmate give his testimony.

07/30/2026

07/27/2026

Timothy spent 25 and a half years behind bars. When he finally walked out of Jefferson Correctional a free man, he said it felt like a bird finally learning to fly.
We first met Timothy back in 2012, behind the fences at ACI. Over the years, he watched the Mullett girls grow up in that same chapel — turning into young women, as the years passed by.
During his final stretch, Timothy spent a week in our From Pain to Purpose program, carrying pain, regret, and shame. As his group leaders prayed over him and ministered to him personally, he felt the weight lift. They told him God was going to use him — and two and a half years later, those words are coming true.
Since his release on April 1, 2024, Timothy earned his Associate of Arts in Paralegal Studies from Keiser University. He's now finishing his Bachelor's in Legal Studies at the same school.
“With determination and persistence, you can succeed at whatever you do,” he told us, “especially when you have God behind you.”
This is the goal of From Pain to Purpose — with God’s help, to show up again and again, long enough to watch someone's whole story unfold and rejoice with them at what God can do!
Full story in the comments.👇