{"id":5860,"date":"2015-01-03T22:39:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T02:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5860"},"modified":"2015-01-03T22:39:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T02:39:16","slug":"angel-tree-prison-fellowship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5860","title":{"rendered":"Angel Tree: Prison Fellowship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by Chuck Colson, a Catholic, (turned himself in due to the Watergate incident, after his conversion after reading C.S. Lewis' <em>Mere Christianity<\/em>), the Prison Fellowship ministry is said to be the world largest prison ministry. The U.S. hosts 25% of world prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>When Archie mocked Colson's promise to help the prisoners, it stuck in his mind ever since his release and thus, the prison ministry was founded.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the testimonies I've read in a booklet mailed to me, it would seem that the ministry indeed makes huge impact on prisoners' lives. Angel Tree is a program in the ministry that helps children of the incarcerated, gifting them Christmas presents on behalf of their imprisoned parents who are in the prison ministry program (mostly it has to do with the reentry program).<\/p>\n<p>When the power of God is at work, a fragile church becomes astonishing while displaying all signs of vulnerability and meekness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by Chuck Colson, a Catholic, (turned himself in due to the Watergate incident, after his conversion after reading C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity), the Prison Fellowship ministry is said to be the world largest prison ministry. The U.S. hosts 25% &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}