For one week in April, the church and local community will turn their thoughts to the men and women in prison.
Prison Fellowship, with members in more than a hundred countries, will be celebrating a worldwide Week of Prayer and Transformation from April 21-27, 2008.
With more than 100,000 volunteers and 500 staff throughout the world, Prison Fellowship is the largest prison ministry organisation in the world.
There are approximately 10 million prisoners throughout the world and just over 200 prisoners here in the Cayman Islands. These are people who are routinely abandoned, forgotten, ignored by society, yet the majority of them will eventually be released back into their communities – ready or not.
According to recent statistics, 67 per cent of them will commit new crimes and return to prison within three years.
‘These people will again one day be part of our community,’ says Pastor Alson Ebanks, Chairman of Prison Fellowship Cayman Islands (PFCI), ‘so the support and encouragement they receive from the community is crucial.’
Prison Fellowship’s Week of Prayer and Transformation reminds the church and community of their role in restoring prisoners to help them become productive members of society.
Local churches are encouraged to include a special time of prayer both during their weekly meetings and especially on Sunday, April 27. PFCI will produce daily meditations, which will be broadcast locally on Radio Cayman during the week.
On Saturday, April 26, special prayer sessions, led by volunteers, will take place in each of the prison facilities in Cayman.
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