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Charles “Chuck” Colson, President Richard M. Nixon's White House counsel and hatchet man, served time in a federal prison camp for a Watergate-related crime. After his incarceration, Chuck felt led by God to honor a promise he made to remember his fellow prisoners and their families.
In 1979, Colson founded Prison Fellowship International to extend his prison outreach outside the United States. Now in 120 countries, Prison Fellowship International is the largest, most extensive association of national Christian ministries working within the criminal justice field, working to proclaim the Gospel worldwide and alleviate the ...
In 1976, Chuck Colson founded Prison Fellowship, now the largest Christian non-profit serving prisoners and their families. As he ministered to inmates, he found that many of the root causes for their incarceration were found upstream from the prison system, in the prevailing culture. Chuck's Response.
Apr 10, 2023 · RESTORING BROKEN LIVES AND SYSTEMS. Nearly 50 years have passed since God gave Chuck a vision to remember the men with whom he served time—and all those like them—by founding Prison Fellowship. The context of corrections has changed since then.
- James J. Ackerman
Apr 21, 2012 · These Colson initiatives completely changed the face of prison ministry. It used to be an unfashionable, underrated, and largely localized Christian activity with no national or international...
- Jonathan Aitken
Charles Colson was the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries, an outreach to convicts, victims of crime, and justice officers. Colson, who converted to Christianity before he was indicted on...
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Jun 23, 2022 · In 1976, Colson founded Prison Fellowship to serve prisoners, former prisoners, and their families, advocating for reform of the justice system. His most controversial post-Watergate endeavor, especially among Reformed Protestants, was co-signing with Richard John Neuhaus an ecumenical document entitled “Evangelicals and Catholics Together.”
