Newsletter
January 9, 2010
Dear Friends, Supporters and Volunteers:
A new year has begun, and each of us at BPWM desires that you grow in the Lord and be blessed in every area of your life.
Last year was an exciting one for BPWM:
- We produced information packets and distributed them to churches, organizations and potential supporters.
- We worked with the prison system and developed our application form and qualification process for soon-to-be-released inmates interested in participating in our program.
- We added business advisors to our team of board members, corporate officers and spiritual advisors.
- We began receiving monthly financial support from Victory Fellowship Church in Garner, NC.
In order to begin the residential aspect of our ministry, we continue to trust God for the funds to obtain a transitional home. If you would like to sow into BPWM, please send your tax-deductible donation to Beyond Prison Walls Ministry, P.O. Box 994, Garner, NC, 27529.
May the grace and favor of our Lord be upon you now and throughout this New Year!
Love in Christ,
Pura Crespo
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September 2009
Greetings from Beyond
Prison Walls Ministry! A lot is happening now, and we are very excited. We
began our search this week for the house to be used as a transitional home
for women newly-released from prison. We have our applications ready
for future residents and will be supplying the North Carolina Correctional
Institute for Women (NCCIW) with application packets for their use in
referring inmates to our ministry.
Staff members at the
NCCIW programs department have been asking about our housing
status because they have several inmates scheduled to be released within
the next four months. Please join us at BPWM in praying for the house
and finances to help them. We are believing for a 2500 square foot
home with four bedrooms and a minimum of two baths and office space.
I would like to take this
opportunity to thank Debi Threewitts for her work and dedication to our
ministry in the areas of communications and document preparation. Thanks
also to Alan and Ann Marie Smith for the monthly financial reports and
minutes of our meetings, to Pastor Diego Correa and his church for
their monthly support and to Edna Correa for developing and maintaining
our Web site.
God bless!
Pura
Jeremiah 29:11-14
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April 28, 2009
To our supporters and friends (old and new):
Thank you for your support, encouragement and prayers! Currently I correspond with 15 inmates and speak to groups by invitation. We are moving forward in the ministry with exciting ideas, including the development of information packets and applications to be given to interested female inmates up to 90 days prior to their release from prison. As part of our overall pre-qualification process, each interested inmate will complete an application and be interviewed personally to determine if she is a good fit for our program and how we can best meet her needs. These same information packets will be used initially to inform local prisons of our program and explain exactly what services we will be offering.
Through BPWM participants will receive information concerning a variety of community resources to help them achieve goals in the work force, in education and in health-related issues. Newly-released inmates have many practical needs as well as spiritual so we will give them access to our fully-stocked clothing closet, and we will make exercise equipment available to them for the duration of their time in our program.
It is exciting to see God working--getting these women refocused, helping them become more confident and teaching them to trust in Him for their future success. This is the foundation of our ministry, and this is the example we are setting ourselves by trusting God for the success of BPWM. Thank you for being part of what we know will be a wonderful testimony for God's glory!
Pura
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January 2009
Dear Friends and Supporters,
We at BPWM have entered the New Year with inspired ideas and dreams intact. Each of you has played an important role in the beginning stages of this ministry, and we want to thank you for your prayers, encouragement, and gifts of time and money.
In 2008 I had the opportunities to minister at the following churches: Fuente de Salvación in Garner, NC, and Iglesia Cristiana Obreros de Paz, and Iglesia El Rebaño, both in Orlando, FL. I was a guest speaker at Women's Aglow in Raleigh, and a speaker and volunteer at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women (NCCIW), and the Raleigh Correctional Center for Women (RCCW) IN THE JOB Start Program I volunteered for sixteen weeks to mentor young women in the program. It was an honor to be a guest speaker for this program. I also volunteered with the Prison Fellowship Ministry in Fuquay Varina, NC, working with participants as part of their orientation. We are praying and believing for our facility to house and minister to these women soon to be released from prison. There are many exciting parts in this development process, one being my meeting with other people that have the same heart and interest for the prison ministry, Amen. Thank you for your continued support.
Love in Christ,
Pura Crespo
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September, 2008
Greetings my Brothers/Sisters
Trusting that you are doing well, enjoying the blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ. This month of September we celebrate our eight month of Beyond Prison Walls Ministry. I believe that God is working quickly on our behalf. Our ministry is believing for the house that we need to service the women that will be soon released from prison. My heart is filled with gratitude of what God is already doing. In the month of August, I traveled to Orlando, Florida to introduce our ministry to a couple of churches. May I say that God was glorified, and the response was very good. We have one of those churches supporting our ministry, praise God. As we wait on the house, we are preparing all of our packages that will be given to the incarcerated women sixty days prior to their release date.
Love in Christ,
Pura Crespo
