About Us

Prison Ministry Volunteers

Jesus said, “I was in prison and you visited Me.”  Our hearts are in the prisons!  Karla Faye Tucker: Set Free  is the story of Linda Strom’s 11-year relationship with Karla Faye Tucker.

A month before her execution, in a video produced inside Mountain View prison, Karla told the Discipleship Unlimited team, “You guys come in here, and you don’t see inmates—you see people.  You see people who are either in the body of Christ, or people who are still lost in sin.  You don’t see people who have committed crimes. You see people who have committed sins.  That makes a big difference in someone’s life like mine who is in here, because we feel that kind of acceptance from you … You’re not coming into inmates, but coming into people.  That’s when people open up to you.  God has anointed you to do deep inner healing and restoration.”

We experience God as He works in the lives of both men and women during our monthly marriage seminars in Wisconsin’s Dodge Correctional Facility and Oshkosh Prison.  Twice a year, we take a team of volunteers into Taycheedah (women’s prison).  And each February, over 70 volunteers from across the country gather in Gatesville, Texas, for our weekend seminar in the prisons there. 

While many team members are able to pay their expenses, others cannot—and we need them with us!  Their stories are important.  Taking a team of “wounded healers” with us into prison is costly.  Yet we know we have a clear call from God to take the life-changing message of God’s love, forgiveness, and transformation into the prisons.

Would you like to help this ministry reach lost, broken, and hurting people with the healing love of Jesus Christ?   Please contact us to receive information about volunteering or to help support the ministry.  All donations go directly to the continued ministry of Discipleship Unlimited.