Founder and Director

Pura Crespo felt called to the prison ministry more than 20 years ago. Her mission has been to teach the incarcerated that there is life beyond prison walls, to share with them the love of Jesus and to bring encouragement and hope to their broken lives. Pura is an ordained minister, has been certified as a teacher/mentor with Prison Fellowship Ministries and holds an associate degree in Christian Ministerial Studies through the Raleigh Institute of Biblical Studies. She also ministers at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh.

If there was anyone gifted and anointed by God to do this sort of work, it is Pura.

Susan Vonolszewski

Project Manager for Wildlife STORYTELLERS

Joint Project of Mega Voice and Global Recordings Network

We do not need to be in a physical prison to feel incarcerated. Many times we have hostages and captives in our hearts that allow the devil to rob our peace and joy. But Jesus says He came that we should receive life in abundance. Let me encourage you to set YOUR captives free. Open your heart and forgive all offenses and offenders. Allow the Lord to heal your broken heart. Jesus loves you and has a plan for your life.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent  you into exile.”   

                                                            Jeremiah 29:11-14