Visiting Indianapolis Reentry Education Facility with Coalition of Prison Evangelists!

Pastor Dwight is excited to be able to visit with a team of Coalition of Prison Evangelists (COPE), this facility while visiting Indianapolis, Sept.12.  The Indianapolis Reentry Educational facility uses best correctional practices to protect the public while providing residents the skills for successful reintegration into the community with the goal of reducing recidivism.

We also will be visiting The Jesus House, http://www.jipm.org/JIPM/Jesus_House.html  Jesus House, an aftercare ministry of Jesus Inside Prison Ministry and the Indianapolis Pastor’s Gathering, is truly a place of restoration and preparation for ex-offenders who have turned to Christ and are being released from incarceration. Some 80% of all men who enter prison are released within four years; most having served time for nonviolent offenses. One of the great failures of our correctional system is the inability of the system to truly reform men so that they do not return to the same social condition and behaviors which led to crime in the first place.

Jesus Inside Prison Ministry (JIPM), founded by Pastor William Bumphus, is dedicated both in turning people from crime to Christ and providing effective aftercare. For more than 19 years, Pastor Bumphus has travelled to prisons in and outside Indiana preaching the Word to tens of thousands of offenders. Over the years, a great number of men have been born again, released from prison, and are living productive lives.