Jail Ministry of Elkhart County

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Jail Ministry of Elkhart County

Sharing the freedom found in Christ.

06/07/2026

Another day closer to opening...

We are patient
We are kind
We are not jealous or boastful
We are not proud or rude
We do not demand our own way
We are not irritable
We keep no record of being wronged
We do not rejoice in injustice but rejoice whenever the truth wins out
We never give up and never lose faith
We are always hopeful and endure through every circumstance

06/03/2026

Welcome to the family, Jason!

"For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."

05/28/2026

Thank you, Jorge, for sharing your story with us at our May Breakfast with the Chaplain.

God continues to use our incarcerated brothers and sisters to teach us more about His grace, mercy, and love.

05/22/2026

Every May for the past eight years, the Elkhart County Sheriff's Office and Goshen College have partnered to offer the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program inside the Elkhart County Jail. For three weeks in May, 24 Goshen College students and 24 people incarcerated at the Elkhart County Jail meet together inside the jail for a college-accredited class centered around restorative justice, reconciliation, and criminal justice issues.

It's awe-inspiring to watch two groups of people who wouldn't normally share the same space in their ordinary lives come together, sitting side by side to study and brainstorm solutions to complex societal problems.

Stereotypes, assumptions, fear, and biases can't stand in the face of proximity, openness, curiosity, and kindness.

Thank you, Sheriff Siegel, Captain Culp (Sheriff-elect), Captain Lanzen, and Program Director Sharon Lowry, for recognizing the power of this program to change the lives of men and women incarcerated in the Elkhart County Jail.

Thank you, Glen, Regina, Rob, and Kortney, for leading these classes with dignity and grace.

Thank you, Goshen College, for your commitment to ensuring this program fits within a nontraditional correctional setting (this program is almost exclusively held in state prisons).

These graduates are forever changed by this experience.

05/21/2026

It's all coming together!
The Holy Alliance Community Center!

We are still a ways out from our grand opening, but we're starting to look official 🙂. Thank you a Signtech Signs!

Sunday morning gathering, tattoo removal, therapy and counseling, art classes, support groups, Bible studies, music.. but underlying all of it is Kingdom community.

We are for each other, but more importantly, we are WITH each other.

05/19/2026

We were blessed to have Patrick and and Chenoa Daniels join us for Holy Alliance on Sunday. They came from Atlanta as recent graduates of Made for PAX (thank you to the Deiners for making this connection for us.)

Songwriter, composer, poet, spoken word artist, Christ followers.

They performed and shared their testimonies. It was a Holy Alliance like no other!

05/13/2026

We're excited to have this guy join the Elkhart County Jail Ministry's Assistant Chaplain team!

Ryan comes to us from Crossroads Community Church and is a leader at Crossroads Recovery.

Welcome to jail, Ryan!

05/07/2026

Last night was our annual fundraising dessert banquet at Nappanee Missionary Church. Once again we were overwhelmed by the support we received from our churches, businesses, and individuals. It was the largest gathering we've ever had!

It was a true picture of the Kingdom of God: baptists, lutherans, catholics, mennonites, missionary, methodists, amish, brethren, pentecostal, COGIC, non-denominational, among others. One body.

This community loves our incarcerated brothers and sisters well. But equally important, we're open to learning from them.

We shared about our ministry inside the jail and Work Release, free tattoo removal, re-entry housing, and our big announcement of our upcoming Holy Alliance Community Center!

We are funded 100% by donations. If you would like to support the work of this ministry, you can donate online here (both one-time and recurring): https://elkhartcountyjailministry.org/donate/
or mail a donation to:
Elkhart County Jail Ministry
26861 CR 26
Elkhart, IN. 46517

05/04/2026

Thank you to the guys from Teen Challenge for helping us set up for our banquet this morning! Setting up for 94 tables is hard work but Teen Challenge is always up for the...challenge.

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Elkhart, IN

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+15748912279

Website

http://elkhartcountyjailministry.org/donate/

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