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Prison volunteers teach religion, life skills to Utah's 6,900 inmates
By .ksl.com - Marjorie Cortez
Published: 06/03/2013

SALT LAKE CITY — If it’s a Monday, chances are Chris and Sandra Fortune are en route to Gunnison in a 12-person van to minister to state prison inmates.

They are members of a Salt Lake City Christian church who travel weekly to the prison to conduct religious services with inmates. The experience, Sandra Fortune said, enables her and other members of her church to share God’s love, spread his message and lift inmates' spirits while they are incarcerated.

The Fortunes said they were acquainted with a young man who was sentenced to the Gunnison prison for automobile homicide. That connection evolved into their church, Miracle Rock International Ministries of Salt Lake, making weekly visits to the facility to conduct religious services.

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