Prison Ministry Page

Home page Visitation Blessing (special) Photo album BIBLE STUDY Favorite Links Contact us Humor Prison Ministry Guest Book KENYA Pastors Bible Study A 'Key' to our life Testimony page The LORD 'says' new Prison Min. Pictures Kenya Update HFTW Hope Center outreach Pakistan Ministry with Martyrs

Our Prison Ministry Page

You will be able to read from different prison reports as you scroll down from different events or our weekly study.

This space here we add putting a current report from an Aug prison event.......... it will be here soon!

La Mesa, Texas Prison Outreach, June 2010

This report is from a new minister with us. She is sensitive to God.

I am new to this ministry field and this was my very first prison outreach. We spent two days with the men at the Prison in La Mesa, Texas; very young men, men with families and children, men who will spend the rest of their lives in this place. Men who have let addictions steal from them or committed crimes worthy enough to put them in this place; men the world would judge, condemn and forget about. Yes, the prison system is there for a reason and there are consequences for the bad choices we all make. But what you have done in the past does not matter to the Lord at all. He looks into the heart to see what is there now. I watched the Lord move for these in men in a Powerful way. How the Lord does not forget those whose hearts are searching for Him!

On the first day we came into the gym, you could feel the hardness in the air. There was a questioning and a reservation in the men. But the music, worship, and the testimonies of the men and women on the team started to break through. The Lord let me pray for and minister to some of the men and let His words flow for them. There was a man who knelt down in the front so I went to pray over him. He was one of the biggest guys I have ever seen in my life. The Lord gave me a word and a vision for me to give share with him. That man was blessed to receive His life. The Lord showed me how He took this man from the bottom of the mountain he was kneeling at to the top of His Holy Mountain to let the wind of His Spirit flow though him. It was flowing through his heart and chest. It was so beautiful up there…a complete peace. When I gave him the word, the Spirit told me to put my hands up over his chest and I just about fell over because I could feel the Spirit flow into him. This huge man fought HARD not to cry but I know it spoke to what he was seeking. The Holy Spirit is so good.

On the 2nd day, you could just feel the joy in the air. Worship was so amazing and the Holy Spirit was so heavy on all. There was a man who was healed from multiple sclerosis and didn’t have to use his walker anymore. So many men just released themselves to the Lord and received His Holy Spirit and their healing. You could feel the freedom and joy in the Lord. There was music, singing, JOY and dancing. All I could see was and hear was freedom. Freedom no walls could contain!

One of the young men had verse he had written for me. He said he wanted to give it to me because it was my first time there and that the Lord wanted me to have it. It moved me to tears; so surprised to be blessed in a most unexpected way. I got to spend time with this young man, to pray for his wife and son. His heart is for God. I know the Lord is using him in this place. I was moved beyond measure because the verse this young man had for me was Proverbs 3:5, 6.......one of my most favorite verses.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.

It is the verse I carried close to me when I first decided to walk with the Lord. How could he know that I had been asking the Lord for confirmation of being on the right path to serve Him in this ministry? That piece paper means more to me than anything now. I am still crying for Joy, for His overwhelming Love that was flowing through that prison gym, for the time we got spend with these men, the Lord’s own sons. How He ministered to their hearts, their hurts, and their hopes. Never will I be the same again.

Will you serve Him? He may ask you to just share a smile…..a word….a hug…..to stand there and listen to someone’s story for a few minutes….a prayer....it may be an hour….a few days…..maybe a lifetime. Yes, it costs you time; but it is time that is held in the Lord’s hand, His very gift to us, the Creator of every heart that beats on this earth. And how He loves each one! Including this heart, a heart that is so very far from “good” too. No better than the hearts of the men the Lord let me share time with for two days. A heart that is redeemed, blessed, and loved by the MOST HIGH GOD.

Christina

Take the words with you,

And return to the LORD,

Say to Him,

“Take away all iniquity,

Receive us graciously,

For we will offer the sacrifices of our lips”

Let him understand these things……

Let him know them.

“They shall walk after the LORD,

He will roar like a lion.

When He roars,

Then His sons shall come trembling from the west,

They shall come trembling like a bird from Egypt,

Like a dove from the land of Assyria

And I will let them dwell in their houses.

I will heal their backsliding,

I will love them freely,

For MY anger has turned away from him.

I will be like the dew to Israel,

He shall grow like the lily,

And lengthen his roots like Lebanon…..”

Words from the book of Hosea,

A book of redemption.

We are still ministering weekly in the Federal Prison in New Mexico and looking to get into more. If you are interested in some testimonies of events read on down and go to our Prison picture page. If you want to help use travel throughout Texas and minister go to our contact page for more info.

Have a Report from our two day event in Jan 2010 in a Abilene TX. Hundreds of men.

Some people believe in not 'Paying a Price' for what you have done. I don't believe that. I do believe in Mercy and Forgiveness too. I believe in a Convict getting so 'Saved' and die a Good Man, we know what's In Us---I was one. Because He knows what he has done, Everything else is 'Mercy' from God--not I get away with it hidden junk even if He didn't mean to be that bad and didn't do that bad either---still that Sin is there, the Nature that will even let us be 'Good' to a point. I had to get all that out of me. I'm grateful for the 'Law' it stopped alot of Bad out of me. I had to trust Him in Growth---because that Stupid looser mentality will make you use chruches, people, places, that start that road again when something bad happens or you don't quite get your way. We identify that so we don't let that happen. It happens to alot of people who start to walk good but don't know how to handle storms. We've got to learn to get it IN US!! I choose to trust this 'God' who is a higher standard than the Law. 'Anyone who understands sin understands 'payment' sometimes has to be made. You have to Pay--do your time. Let 'Christ' do it in you. If Christ is so Good--you could die Good and Pay your time good and come out not wanting any of the LIES to Make YOU BAD---AGAIN. That's what I preach. Paul Jeffrey Popoff

Jan 2010

A praise report from our 2 day event in Abilene TX:

Well, this is to say thanks to you all, You ever be emotionally joyful and it just keeps coming up in you when you are done. Overwhelming emotion. If you helped saved or saw somebody Saved from DEATH. It just comes up since it is over to remember these People who are condemned to Die for there sins, some of them really are and God wants to save them. I Saw this Old man come up who says he was a pastor to me privately and built two churches sounded like he had been in there a little while and was going to be in there a while longer. His wife had just died a year or so back and It's been hard on Him. He was so broken what I heard in him was destroyed. He says he misses the Church so much--- tears pouring down his face. Do we think it easy to tell this to other people in this kind of setting what He is telling me, I see what runs in me maybe not you -- do I want humiliation for reward to destroy a man who is what he says He is and failed. It was hurting him all that he had done and is going to have to pay. How do we see these things just flippant words. Have I ever done anything 'Wrong'??? There were probably about 500 to 700 hundred men come, they rotates shifts of men in out during the two day event. The Lord told me "Mercy, to Abilene" and then just before I went He said, "Would I lay down my life for my wife." Especially if she was filthy to me. Talk is cheap when we REALLY EXAMINE OUR HEARTS FOR "ME"! maybe not YOU. We talk a lot as people who believe, could we pay for our own 'SIN' or is it just get away with it to and so called mercy to the few. Are we in to torturing people that we believe deserve it---Do we know what Deserve is??? Sometimes I wonder what's in Me, I TRUST HIM THOUGH SO I CAN DIE AND LIVE MORE OF 'CHRIST IN ME'. I KNOW WHAT 'HE' SAID TO SAVE ME and them everyone comes through the same Cross to God. Do we really believe God is a Just GOD or our IDEA OF HIS Justice IS. I AM MORE SAVED that I know. AND I KNOW HE WANT'S THE WICKED TO BE PUNISHED RIGHTFULLY. Do WE THINK OUR 'NEIGHBORS' ARE WORTH SOMETHING???? The Lord showed me this right as we were ending.......... SORRY IF I'M PREACHING, It just gets in me. Do we think God wants Wickedness to be LET Loose???????? There Was A 'FIRE' from Heaven and Jesus Himself and the Sovernty of Him showed up. I SAW THE LORDS SPIRIT IN 'ONE SETTING' PUT ME ON MY KNEES BACK ABOUT 150 FEET AWAY FROM THE PLATFORM. I HID MY FACE SO THE PRECIOUSNESS OF THE 'DIVINE ONE' WHO DIED FOR US ISN'T ABOUT ME, 'SO I KNOW HIM'. WHEN I LOOKED UP THERE WERE ABOUT 200 MEN IN FRONT OF ME WERE BOWING THEIR KNEES TO GOD AND YOU COULD SEE IN THE SPIRIT REFLECTING OFF OF THEM A CALL AND REACH FOR TO BE SAVED AND RECEIVING IT. I AM GRATEFUL TO KNOW HIM MORE. I HAD TO CHOOSE TO DIE FOR BEING WRONG AND CHOOSING TO BE A CHRISTIAN A NUMBER OF TIMES WHILE I WAS IN PRISON. I WENT TO PRISON FOR ARMED ROBBING A GAS STATION WITH A GUN AND ONE BULLET IN IT--- TO SCARE PEOPLE NOT HURT THEM. I HAD SOME OTHER THINGS TOO--- (not no perverseness just to help anyone’s conscience out). I WENT TO MAXIMUM SECURITY YARDS FOR ALL THAT AND MY AFFILIATIONS NOT SAYING I HAVEN'T DONE SOME OTHER THINGS. AND IT AIN'T THAT BAD IN PRISON SOMETIMES AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL IN 'CHRIST' AT TIMES---VERY MUCH SO. BUT IN THERE DO YOU THINK THAT IT ISN'T REAL TO FEEL OR BE PERSECUTED BECAUSE YOU ARE A 'CHRISTIAN' NOW AND KINDA LIKED SAVING OTHER MEN IN THERE. AND ALSO THE 'WORK OF SIN AND THE ENEMY TO KEEP HIS KINGDOM! WE ARE WRONG. MAYBE IT'S EASY TO DIE BUT TO LIVE IN THAT STATE FOR A WHILE CAN BE VERY TRAUMATIC I GUESS. BEEN THERE DONE THAT. THANK YOU ALL, A LOT OF THESE MEN WILL STOP A LOT OF SEEDS OF WICKEDNESS. THINK ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE AT AND WHAT THEY HAVE CHOSEN TO BE AND TRUST. THEY WILL LIVE A WITNESS OUT TO OTHERS AND SOME DIE THERE AND BE PERSECUTED. I WONDER WHAT I HAVE TO BELIEVE OF DESERVE FOR ME HERE...BUT I KNOW I HAVE TO CHOOSE TO DIE FOR BEING WRONG AND IT GIVES ME A 'JOY'. PLEASE PRAY FOR THEM!!!! Paul said a statement since you have chosen I pray for you. Getting there is a 'Fight' but what do you think happens after You Stand????? THANK YOU. Jeff I am very tired. The Lord told me the song by MercyMe "Spoken For" the day before we left for the event. They played it there and the Anointing was so Strong, you could here the men say the Anointing from the other side of the Room. And if anyone knows the Reward of a Song giving by Heaven in His Spirit for that Song. These men were very, very thankful and so was I. I apologize if I am conveying any defeat in these words, I don't believe in that in any at all and better than I think but do you think the enemy fights to bring His Kingdom to destroy Gods? Jeff

New Boston TX event:

I want to thank everyone for Praying for this yard. The enemy was starting to take the land but God has such a goodness. Most of the men on this yard are doing long time. It is a yard of 15+ years to death. I talk to people doing 40 and 60 years. 3000 man yard. I'm going to write a praise report for you all. Still kinda wore out. I always get Humbled and know how I should repent more. God, how I want to say some things but not right now. I remember Mickey, Pastor Walt used to bring in and He would always say, (he was a parplegic). I love my Life. And I wouldn't HEAR him, but really I would HEAR JESUS SAY THAT like HE was ONE with Mickey and it was Jesus's LIFE not Mickeys. It would mess my whole world up, couldn't understand some of things he would try to talk about because he can't speak that good. But I 'know Who I heard. There is a way that keeps Us saved, I believe in all the goodnes and the gifts of God and I believe He has HIS WAY of Keeping us Humble too. So we don't kill eachother or Sinners. I'll save the rest for the report. Paul was a Murder wasn't he. I wonder if we really understand that. I know I'm more saved for the People of the Streets. You think God is scared His Salvation isn't Good enough, even good enough to keep us safe, or we have to add some stuff??

There is this one inmate, I saw something kinda like I saw of Mickey, but He isnt Crippled at all....and I bet our hatered and murder will stop us from seeing what I want us to see of God.....deeply. Good Men can die good can't they, especially christians, them sinners. And Your right they can!!!!! I'm going to messed up for a while on this one. Hint, it wasn't anything of the EARTH I saw and heard.

Thank you all so much. The men Thank you So MUCH....!

I want to encourage the Dream Center Phoenix, God wants some 'Word' for You. "POWER". Don't listen to the Darkness or Judgement that's is not of SALVATION by His Spirit not the Devils look alike word. He Keeps HIS WORD!! I pray LORD, "fill that lack." Pray He fill it.

The Lord had me tell the men on the Yard that there was an 'Annointing for their Eyes and come and be pray for that'. He wants you to hear that too dream Center, and man some of those men Got Something, Wow.

I will tell all the rest and some other things in the report. Remember the Cross and not a wooden Cross so we can get away with something.

Love,

Jeff

Well, I'm sorry for not getting the Praise Report complete to everyone. Been Busy trying to run a men's home, Helping the men. Praying and side jobs. Dealing with junk and the process in Me. Got to pay the bills.

Sometimes I think the Lord is letting me if, I choose, to experience some dispositions men in prison have to go through, and even a lot of us out here, even though we wouldn't dare to admit it. And I'm not saying they are not Guilty of Crimes, they are, but that place maybe were we can't make things back right. Can never Repay and be that right To MAN. Do you think that does something in someone day in and day out, looking at that?

So let's go to the update on the Prison:

I don't remember if I mentioned the young men who were defeated. If you were in your early or mid twenties and looking at 15 to life in prison. It's not like your life in any way out here in the world, it's like a living death in a way. Been there. Some days it just seemed like a good day to die. Not a bunch of nice men here, and you want me to be a christian. I had to Look them in the Eyes, seeing the defeat and look for some kind of hope. And because I know Gods Strength and Supernatural Life beyond this Earth and no Hope and Let them Know with Courage that 'Yes' you can Live and God can KEEP YOU. AND SPEAK IT LIKE I MEANT MORE THAN WHAT I BELIEVE BECAUSE I KNOW IT HAS TO BE GOD. And you see that Spark come alive in there eyes so they have part and touch of that hope and then let God smile at them. Had to let the young know they were the future and the old to get their roots in.

Had to get them to their 'Word' as the message God gave me. Mathew 12:37," For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” And Oh, how the other ministers where beautiful in their word too. One husband and wife were in such union with the Holy Spirit, when the Lord showed they recognized Him in unity. Message was so good and 'Life Giving from the Spirit.' I was extremely grateful.

We put on three skits and they really can bring a point home and the minister really uses the emphasis of the points to call the me to the Lord and salvation and in various areas.

There was a strong homosexual spirit invading the yard in ways and the Lord dealt with it to the men with seriousness and HIS PROVISION. I TOLD THEM WHAT I WAS LEAD. THE LORD CAN TAKE CARE OF ALL YOUR NEEDS IN THIS AREA. YOU HAVE TO TRUST HIM.

Lots of re-dedication and Souls. Men where afraid of the Devil on this yard because of the witchcraft.

The worship was so beautiful. I saw that one inmate, and I've seen some very good worship in my life and I've had some Experiences with Jesus in Worship....supernatural places and dealings that are not of Earth in any way. I've never seen anything like this. I've seen people with the LOVE OF GOD. BUT THIS WAS BEYOND THAT IF ONE COULD EVEN BELIEVE, I STILL HAVE A HARD TIME WITH IT, IT MESSES ME UP INSIDE IN A GOOD WAY. I SAW A MAN WHO WAS LIKE THE LOVE OF GOD SINGING, ALL THE LOVE OF GOD.......THERE WAS NO HUMANNESS WHEN HE WAS SIGNING AND IT WAS HIM. MY BRAIN AND MY HEART DOESN'T WANT TO BELIEVE IT BUT I KNOW AND THE SPIRIT TESTIFIES TO ME WHAT I SAW. I CAN'T PUT THIS TO RIGHT WORDS.

SO BEAUTIFUL.............................................................................

HIS PRESENCE STILL LINGERS......

BACK TO THE SERVICE.

I was lead to tell them Me that the Lord had an Anointing for Their Eyes and to come forward at times if they wanted to be prayed for their eyes. I know some men got something really really strong. Man, you could feel the life.

The Lord has been having me pray for others and myself for the same afterwards and even to this day.

It was a beautiful event.

We have two other events opening up. Pray for them. One of them is supposed to be a really hard yard.

I have a 'WORD FOR THE BODY OF CHRIST'. This was given to me about a week after getting back from the event and I apologize for not getting out sooner wanted to make sure on it and was involved in things. I let gifts prove themselves.

The Lord Said. "He will visit parts of HIS BODY with Fire." He said, "Pray He fill the Lack of our Eyes."

He also said, "He is sick of His thieving church".

I've been praying for what have I been robbing God of. Watching.

He showed me souls and and Sacrifice again. I didn't know He would do things like that.

Now, I had sent a video to a few people that I enjoyed and what the Lord said above has nothing to do with it. That I know of.

God Bless you all and Pray for The Ground of our Hearts and lives, and for His Visitation.

Jeff

The two day event in La Mesa, Texas went really good. Inmates sometimes because they are Never Really Respected once you give them some Respect and they'll test you to see if it real, especially from the God Heart opens them up. Please pray for the men and us the ministers that we honor a TRUE Cross and its God that keeps us saved not covered up. God want's the move of God to continue there. There were over 350 men in the two day event and all kinds of different repentence from salvation to getting stronger in their walk.

Please pray for the Men, the gang affiliations are strong here in the border land. Cartel and drug mafias and they are strong in the prison and jails.

We have been accepted into the Otero Federal Prison in Chaparel New Mexico. We are now doing two bible studies, one for women and one for men. God said to make, "disciples". So that is what we do. God covers every area of life because what you think is little can be that one thing that brings you back to prison even thought you believe in God.

We are getting a number of letters from inmates enjoying the bible studies and asking for places to parole to. We work with a number of different ministries that have homes for men. Our own home is full at this time. Christian foundational programs that keep Christ in a full light for the men so they can stay and grow strong.

Childress Texas Prison Minister Event

I've been around a little bit, I mean I'm a young minister. But I've seen Gods power In Strong ways. The repentive Power of God that even we ministers have to bow was so strong to save the men. Some things are a privilege, if I said an honor I would be so mistaken. And to have and follow though with the Spirit, with the Spirit to give them LIFE OF GOD, to be sons, Disiciples. To have young men want to live and not Die, that know that they are Dead. And then for their Children. There are some leaders on that yard that need to be cared for. crying out in the Spirit for Someone to help them have life for the men. I will follow through. I'm so tired. The annoiting was so strong, it seems to be hard to carry.
Please pray for Them and me. and please pass this on to whoever.
There were over 800 men total of the services. Some of the oppression of being under the enemy was so strong But we got through. We had number of alter calls for various things and probably hundreds saved and redidicated. I go for product the end result I don't go for show. Sometimes almost everyman would come forward.
I'm so grateful.
Jeff
We are looking to expand and need finacies/support for the ministry. Time is in the ministry. If you feel lead--please support us so we can pay the bills and be effective in giving the Spirit Himself and the WORD to the inmates and DISCIPLE them in the home and with the Dream Center El Paso that God is Building.

WE HAVE INMATES WRITING FOR BIBLE STUDIES. YOUR PRAYERS AND ANY SUPPORT THAT YOU CAN GIVE WOULD BE APPRECIATED. WE HAVE LESSONS THAT WE PRINT UP AND SEND AND THEY SEND BACK THEIR ANSWERS. WE BELIEVE IN SOMETHING REALLY BEING REVEALED AND GROWING IN THE INMATES.