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| Seminary Program To Start In TN Prison |
| By oakridger.com |
| Published: 10/08/2010 |
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PETROS — History was made and a dream was fulfilled last month inside Tennessee's largest prison. In 2009, as executive director for FOCUS Group Prison Ministries, Steve Humphreys had the opportunity to serve with a Samaritan's Purse building team at Angola Prison in Louisiana. According to the news release, long considered by many to be one of the toughest prisons in America, Angola has been the site of a great movement of God that can be attributed to the Southern Baptist Convention Seminary Extension program that began there more than a decade ago. More than 300 men, mostly serving life sentences, have successfully earned degrees through the program and are sent out to prisons all over the state to serve as missionaries, teachers and preachers inside the penal system. As Humphreys spoke with one of the inmate ministers, he realized what a difference this program was making in the lives of the men there. "He had just returned from a two-year missionary assignment at a prison in northern Louisiana. This did not seem like a very significant thing until I learned that his wife and family lived only about 30 minutes south of Angola and he had not seen them since leaving for his mission assignment: it was too expensive for them to travel the distance. Wow! What a sacrifice and I knew then that God wanted us to have a program like that in Tennessee," Humphreys recently shared. With an established history of offering life skills and Christian discipleship classes to inmates at Morgan County Correctional Complex in Wartburg, FOCUS desired to offer seminary level classes as part of their Focus Christian Academy. Working with Assistant Commissioner Jim Cosby with the Tennessee Department of Corrections and Dr. Ron Turner, director of Religious Services, Hum-phreys received approval to launch the center for the 2010 fall semester. After meeting with potential instructors and local Directors of Missions for the Knox Baptist, Big Emory and Clinton Baptist Associations, Humphreys also received encouragement and guidance from Vivian Buttrey and Randall Williams, both with Seminary Extension. Read More. |
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