Prison Ministry

Alpha Prison Ministries

Leader: Leon Alderman

Alpha Prison Ministries in Grand Rapids, Michigan serves prison inmates with Bible studies, spiritual help, and mentoring.

As prisoners are released from prison and need to integrate successfully back into society after prison, rather than return quickly back to prison, Alpha Prison Ministries helps with housing, job placement, clothing, and further mentoring aimed at giving ex-prisoners the skills and resources to become productive members of society and find the higher purpose that God would have them accomplish in life after prison. Our prison ministry has been very successful helping ex-prisoners break the cycle of returning to prison after being released from prison. With the expense of keeping prisoners locked up, and the waste of human potential, a prison ministry that transforms prisoners to productive members of society, makes an important contribution to the prison problem plaguing our culture. That is the heart of prison ministry for Alpha Prison Ministries in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

An exciting reality for Alpha Prison Ministries is that just because someone is living behind bars, does not mean they are not free. It is not uncommon to find those in prison who are more free than many who live outside in what we call society. You can see it in their eyes; there is light, there is life, there is the freedom that only God himself can produce.

Rather than being hopeless prison situations, God has demonstrated that his power is made perfect in weakness. The pages of this web site are filled with accounts of people's imperfect lives being transformed, real stories of the Lord turning failure into success. For those who support us through prayers, volunteering, funding contributions, and donations of goods and services, these are only a few examples of what God has used you to help accomplish through the ministry of Alpha Prison Ministries.

Alpha Prison Ministries seeks to focus on the whole person, to reach out to prisoners and their families with the help they really need; not only while they are in prison, but afterwards as well, when they are trying to integrate back into society. We seek to disciple them and bring about the full transformation of character that only true faith in Jesus Christ can provide. We desire to assist them in fulfilling God's calling for their lives, whether in prison or out of prison.

For more information, please visit www.alphapm.org