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Coalition of Prison Evangelists www.copeministries.org 2220 Regal Parkway Euless, TX 76040 Toll free: 1-888-256-2673		A professional service organization for Christians ministering in the field of corrections. When you join COPE, you become part of a network of over 550 jail and prison ministries throughout the country and the world, sharing resources and services. Some of the services that COPE provides each of its member ministries includes the COPE Membership Directory listing every state and federal prison in the United States and Canada, their address and phone number, plus the name of the chaplain, plus every COPE ministry by state, the cooperating churches, a national list of traveling evangelists, music and singing groups, plus a nationwide list of aftercare residential centers for released prisoners.
New England Prison Ministries www.nepm.org 34 Franklin St. #B-05 Nashua NH 03060 (603) 881-7704 E-mail: nepm@nepm.org	New England Prison Ministries is the prison ministry branch of Vision New England, www.christianity.com/visionnewengland covering all six New England states (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island). We establish local jail or prison ministries. We then train volunteers from a local church to take the ministry over. It then becomes known as the jail or prison outreach of that particular church and bears their name. The pastor and/or leaders of the church are henceforth responsible for holding the volunteers accountable and spiritually supported. We do, however, stay in regular touch with them and are always available for assistance. We hold two or three major prison ministry conferences in New England each year. These are one or two-day events featuring major speakers and a wide variety of workshops related to prison ministry.
International Network of Prison Ministries www.prisonministry.net	offers free web pages for prison ministry groups. They also privide an extensive directory of several dozen prison ministry groups at www.prisonministry.net/directory/index.htm This index can be sorted by location, type of ministry, etc. I checked the links to several ministries I'm personally familiar with. Unfortunately, a lot of the information is out of date. They've done a lot better than I have in collecting links to various ministry groups! Until I find more time to contact these ministries, I recommend that you use this index to help search out ministries relevant to you.
http://www.gospelcom.net/	Cross Search maintains an extensive list of Christian ministries and resources, including listings for many prison ministries at www.crosssearch.com/Ministry_Resources/Prison
www.prisonfellowship.org Prison Fellowship Ministries P.O. Box 17500 Washington, DC 20041-0500 (703) 478-0100	Prison Fellowship, founded by Chuck Colson after his Watergate conviction, is one of the most extensive prison-oriented ministries in the U.S. and around the world. Prison Fellowship conducts in-prison seminars and bible studies after-prison ministries through local churches ministries to families of prisoners, including the Angel Tree program that provides Christmas gifts for the children of prisoners ministries to victims of crime training programs for volunteers who want to serve in one of these ministries Prison Fellowship has dozens of regional offices around the country that oversee these ministries. For the office nearest you, plus lots of other information, see the Prison Fellowship web site.
Core Ministries www.coreministries.com 8857 Bennett Hill Rd. Central Lake, MI 49622 (231) 544-2258 Fax (231) 544-2259 Toll Free (800) 967-0732	Core Ministries produces biblical resources for inmates, victims, ex-offenders, their families, and those who minister to them. Also publishes The Christian Inmate News , a newspaper that is largely written by Christian inmates and is entirely for inmates. The Christian Inmate News is sent to chaplains in every state and federal prison, the larger county jails, and juvenile facilities throughout the United States. The chaplains distribute the newspapers to men, women, and juvenile inmates. The Christian Inmate News is tabloid in size and contains twelve pages. It is issued quarterly. Currently,115,000 copies of each issue are distributed.

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