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Monthly Spotlight: Featuring Prison Fellowship Angel Tree, bringing the love of Christ to children of incarcerated parents through Christmas gifts, personal messages, and ongoing relationships that restore hope, strengthen families, and remind every child they are seen, loved, and never forgotten.

Innovator Feature: Clyde Ferguson, Jr. (TUMI of Lenoir, NC), sharing his remarkable journey as an educator, musician, and disciple-maker, equipping church leaders and incarcerated men with biblical training to faithfully serve Christ and transform their communities.

Testimonial: Jesse Olivas of Testimony Ministries shares his inspiring story of redemption after nearly 27 years in prison, demonstrating how Christ-centered discipleship, mentorship, and unwavering faith are helping him rebuild his life and discover God’s purpose beyond incarceration.

President’s Corner: Dr. Greg Bruce reflects on the enduring promise of Christmas, celebrating the faithful volunteers, ministry partners, and supporters whose generosity is planting seeds of hope, restoring lives, strengthening families, and advancing the Gospel through Christ-centered service.

Partner Events: Charles W. Colson Scholarship Opportunity at Wheaton College, God Behind Bars worship music release, Helping the Home Front Resilience Biker Rally, and upcoming partner gala events supporting restoration, recovery, and community outreach.

Explore the full issue, pray with us, and partner in God’s work of bringing hope, restoring families, equipping leaders, and transforming lives through the love of Jesus Christ.

Monthly Spotlight: Featuring Freedom Through Education (Sacramento, CA), equipping individuals returning from incarceration with housing, education, and Christ-centered support to build a new path forward.

Innovator Feature: Nicole Linder (Fresno, CA), sharing insight on leadership, transition, and faithful stewardship, helping organizations navigate seasons of change with purpose and clarity.

Testimonial: Along Side Ministries (Phoenix, AZ) shares a powerful impact story, highlighting their discipleship model, reentry support, and a remarkable 97% success rate of program graduates staying out of prison, along with a current matching opportunity to double your impact.

President’s Corner: Dr. Greg Bruce reflects on the power of community, mentorship, and modern generosity in restoring lives and creating lasting transformation through Christ-centered support.

Partner Events: Along Side Ministries Graduation Sunday, Changed Choices Reentry Simulator, Jer Ne Ministries Podcast, and Saint Leonard’s Ministries “The Heart of Saint Leonard’s” Event.

Explore the full issue, stand with us in prayer, and be part of the work God is doing to restore lives and bring lasting hope through Christ.

Monthly Spotlight: Featuring Community Justice Center (Fresno, CA), a restorative justice organization serving first-time youth offenders through accountability, healing, and community-based alternatives to incarceration.

Innovator Feature: With Dr. Robin LaBarbera, Professor Emerita at Biola University and President of LaBarbera Research & Evaluation, highlighting her research and book It’s Changed What I’m Living For, exploring rehabilitation, identity transformation, and human flourishing in correctional settings.

Testimonial: Brookside Community Development Corporation (Indianapolis, IN) shares a powerful story of restoration, providing reentry support, housing, and discipleship for individuals and families-including Shannon’s journey toward stability and hope.

President’s Corner: Dr. Greg Bruce reflects on restoration, emphasizing that true rehabilitation is not only about avoiding reoffending, but about rebuilding lives, relationships, and purpose through faith and community support.

Partner Events: Mighty Oaks Memorial Month Fundraiser, Turn90’s “The Missing Half of Justice” Exhibit (North Charleston, SC), and Powerhouse Ministries Graduation (Folsom, CA).

Monthly Spotlight: Featuring Prisoners For Christ Outreach Ministries, equipping incarcerated men and women worldwide through discipleship, mentorship, and biblical training, while Dee Peterson’s story highlights a powerful journey of personal restoration and a calling to bring hope behind prison walls.

Q + A: With Diane Hunt, Executive Director/CEO of Changed Choices, sharing insight on how early, relationship-based support, faith, and mentorship help women successfully reintegrate and build stable, purpose-filled lives after incarceration.

Testimonial: Free On The Outside shares a powerful story of redemption, highlighting a journey from homelessness and uncertainty after prison to stability, growth, and renewed purpose through Christ-centered housing and community support.

President’s Corner: Dr. Greg Bruce reflects on proclaiming freedom to the captives and celebrates partners who are restoring dignity, rebuilding lives, and bringing lasting transformation through Christ.

Partner Events: Marjaree Mason Center Golf Classic, New Beginnings “Walk for Redemption,” and Foundation for Women Warriors “Women Veterans Engage Conference,” supporting outreach and restoration initiatives.

Monthly Spotlight: Featuring Foundation for Women Warriors, empowering women veterans through financial support, childcare assistance, and community, restoring stability, confidence, and hope.

Q + A: With Barbara Gatewood, Founder of Transforming Lives Hawaii, sharing insight on reentry challenges and how faith, mentorship, and support systems are transforming lives after incarceration.

Testimonial: Breakthrough Church San Diego shares a powerful story of redemption, highlighting a journey from addiction and incarceration to renewed faith and purpose through Christ.

President’s Corner: Dr. Greg Bruce reflects on loving our neighbors in action and celebrates partners restoring dignity, rebuilding lives, and strengthening communities through Christ.

Partner Events: Changed Choices “Journey to Freedom,” Fresh Coast Alliance Sober Comedy Night, and ongoing outreach supporting individuals on the path to restoration.

Read the full issue, pray with us, and partner in God’s work of restoring lives and renewing hope through Christ.

Monthly Spotlight: Featuring His Father’s Heart Ministries and the transformative impact of “The Journey,” a Christ-centered discipleship ministry bringing heart-healing, mentoring, and restoration to incarcerated individuals, veterans, and those in recovery. Powerful testimonies highlight identity renewed through Christ and cycles of brokenness being restored through trauma-informed care and spiritual formation.

Q + A: With the founders of Young Christian Professionals – Stanley Frankart, Alfred Cleveland, and Bobby Johnson. A compelling conversation on lived experience, redemptive leadership, and developing faith-filled professionals inside prisons and through reentry mentorship and redemptive hiring partnerships.

Testimonial: Testimony Ministries, Inc. shares how Testimony House welcomes returning citizens with gospel-centered hospitality, education, discipleship, and community outreach – including their weekly “Good Market” serving neighbors in need.

President’s Corner: Dr. Greg Bruce, President of Serving USA, reflects on loving our neighbors in action and celebrates partners restoring dignity, rebuilding lives, and strengthening families through Christ.

Partner Events: Fresh Coast Alliance Sober Comedy Night; Foundation for Women Warriors Financial Education Series; and the ongoing campaign from Forgotten Children, Inc. supporting survivors of trafficking.

Read the full issue, pray with us, and partner with Serving USA as we continue providing grace and redemption through Christ.

Monthly Spotlight: Human Trafficking Awareness Month – Featuring Forgotten Children, Inc. and honoring 20 years of Christ-centered frontline work serving survivors of human trafficking. This spotlight highlights faith-driven partners walking alongside women in recovery through safe housing, trauma-informed care, discipleship, and long-term restoration. Along with additional ministry highlights, real impact stories, and ways to get involved, this issue calls our community to prayer and action.

Q + A: With Troy Nelson, CEO, ARM Prison Outreach. A thoughtful conversation on Spirit-led leadership, curiosity-based discipleship, and how ARM continues to bring the unchanging Gospel into prisons through obedience, prayer, and innovative use of technology.

Testimonial: Dr. Emery Ailes – President, LIFELine University. Dr. Ailes shares insights from his academic work on social capital, faith-based community, and mental wellness, highlighting how connection, trust, and spiritual support play a vital role in recovery for prisoners, veterans, and women in recovery.

President’s Corner: Dr. Greg Bruce – President, Serving USA – Reflections on dignity, unity, and lasting transformation through Christ, celebrating the work of ARM Prison Outreach, Forgotten Children, Inc., LIFELine University, and Serving USA partners nationwide who continue restoring lives and strengthening communities.

Partner Events: Arukah – 8th Annual Crab & Pasta Dinner, Forever Found – Annual Golf Tournament, CMCA Annual Summit, and additional partner initiatives supporting survivors of trafficking, incarcerated individuals, and those on the path to recovery.

Read the full issue, pray with us, and partner with Serving USA as we begin the new year committed to restoring lives through Christ’s grace, redemption, and hope.

    
Monthly Spotlight: Introducing Serving USA’s Upcoming 2026 Partners – Highlighting newly selected faith-driven nonprofit organizations serving in prison and reentry programs, veteran-focused initiatives, and women in recovery. Along with additional ministry highlights, real impact stories, and ways to get involved.

Q + A: With Jeremy Stewart, Pastor, Breakthrough Church San Diego. A conversation on how TUMI and theological training prepared him for reentry after incarceration, shaped his ministry leadership, and supported the launch of Breakthrough Church and its year-long discipleship program.

Testimonial: Jacqua Brown Williams – World Impact / The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI). Jacqua shares her journey of lifelong calling, theological training, and spiritual formation through TUMI, and how God used that preparation to give her confidence to share and defend her faith and to mentor others.

President’s Corner: Dr. Greg Bruce – President, Serving USA – Reflections on dignity, inclusion, and transformation through Christ, highlighting stories from World Impact/TUMI and Breakthrough Church San Diego as evidence of lives restored through grace and community.

Partner Events Mighty Oaks Foundation – Socks for 22 Campaign, Rebirth Homes – Survivor-Made Product Fundraiser, Fresh Coast Alliance – Apparel Supporting Reentry & Recovery, and additional partner initiatives supporting veterans, survivors, and those impacted by incarceration.

Read the full issue, join us in prayer, support our partners, and stand with Serving USA ministries bringing grace, redemption, and the hope of Jesus Christ as the year comes to a close.

Monthly Spotlight: Prison Fellowship – Angel Tree – Angel Tree brings hope to children of the incarcerated through gifts, mentorship, and the hope of Christ.

Q + A with Dr. Romney Ruder – President of Lifeline Global Ministries – Dr. Ruder shares how Lifeline Global is working to break cycles of generational incarceration through innovative programs and discipleship.

Testimonial: The Oasis Center (Dallas, TX) – David Flores shares his story of trauma healing, transformation, and calling through The Oasis Center.

President’s Corner: Dr. Greg Bruce – Dr. Bruce highlights how Prison Fellowship, Lifeline Global, and The Oasis Center restore children, parents, and families with compassion and hope.

Partner Events – Foundation for Women Warriors Deliver Joy Toy Drive, Fresh Coast Alliance Heart of Christmas, God Behind Bars Live From Angola Prison, and more.

Join us in prayer, spread the word, and stand with Serving USA partners transforming lives through the hope of Jesus Christ.

Monthly Spotlight: Anchored in Hope – REBOOT Recovery & Mighty Oaks Foundation (Washington, D.C.) – Faith-based veteran leaders Evan Owens and Jeremy Stalnecker joined national voices at the White House for “Anchored in Hope: Standing Strong for Our Heroes.” Together with the Veterans Administration, they explored Christ-centered solutions for trauma recovery, mental health, and spiritual resilience among veterans and active-duty service members, igniting new pathways for faith-based collaboration and healing.

Q + A with Corinne Kinstler – Founder of LAST Ministry (Orangevale, CA) – Drawing from her own journey of redemption, Corinne leads a ministry that restores dignity and faith for women in recovery, reentry, and homelessness. Through mentorship, discipleship, and trauma-informed care, she helps women rediscover their identity in Christ and rebuild their lives with purpose, peace, and hope.

Testimonial: Freedom Through Education (Sacramento, CA) – Charlie Joseph Willits shares how God transformed his life after decades of incarceration. Through Freedom Through Education’s housing, mentorship, and faith-based support, Charlie found freedom, stability, and a renewed purpose in Christ, embodying the ministry’s mission to restore lives and reduce recidivism through grace and opportunity.

May these stories remind us that when Christ restores a heart, He rebuilds lives, families, and communities, turning pain into purpose and redemption into legacy.

Monthly Spotlight: Pathway to Freedom (Little Rock, AR) – Founder & CEO Scott McLean shares his journey from a childhood marked by hardship to leading a Christ-centered reentry program that is transforming lives behind bars. Through evidence-based, faith-driven services, Pathway to Freedom is breaking cycles of incarceration, restoring families, and equipping men for a future of hope and integrity.

Q+A with Micah Hale – Teen Challenge Ministry Institute (South Gate, CA) – Once trapped in addiction, Micah now directs TCMI, equipping a new generation of ministry leaders. He reflects on how Christ-centered recovery, discipleship, and hands-on training are raising up world-changers who will carry the light of Jesus into the darkest places.

Testimonial: Transforming Lives through the Loving Hand of God – Serving USA’s Program Director Jon Lowry spotlights The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) and shares powerful testimonies of restored lives, renewed families, and graduates who are reshaping prison culture through biblical training and discipleship.

May these stories encourage us to see that when Christ redeems a life, He not only restores a person, but He reshapes families, communities, and generations to come.

Monthly Spotlight: GenerateHope (San Diego, CA & Northern Colorado) – President & CEO Annie Rodriguez shares how their Christ-centered residential recovery programs are bringing long-term healing and restoration to survivors of sex trafficking through safe housing, trauma-informed care, education, and spiritual renewal.

Q+A with Sheri Wiedenhoefer – Community Justice Center (Fresno, CA) – Sheri reflects on how restorative justice fosters healing, accountability, and reconciliation, highlighting the impact of Victim-Offender Reconciliation Programs (VORP), Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA), and her vision for restorative justice shaping future generations.

Testimonial: The Bridge Restoration Ministry (Monterey, CA) – Christine, a resident, shares her powerful testimony of overcoming addiction and homelessness through Christ-centered recovery, finding healing, stability, and a renewed faith that is restoring her family and future.

May these stories remind us that no wound is too deep for God’s healing grace, and through Christ, true freedom and restoration are possible.

Monthly Spotlight: Prison Fellowship (Washington, D.C.) – President Heather Rice-Minus shares how the legacy of Chuck Colson lives on through restorative programs, advocacy for justice reform, and Gospel-centered transformation behind bars and beyond.

Q+A with Loren Ditmore – City of Refuge Sacramento (Sacramento, CA) – Loren highlights how trauma-informed housing, mentorship, and wraparound services are breaking cycles of homelessness and generational trauma for women and children in crisis.

Testimonial: FreedomWorks (Minneapolis, MN) – Executive Chef Leroy Duncan shares his personal journey from incarceration to leadership, and how Christ-centered community, mentorship, and vocational training continue to change lives every day.

May these stories encourage us to keep pressing forward in faith—because God still heals, restores, and sets the captives free.