Can people who have committed the worst crimes truly change? If you have ever doubted whether redemption is possible for those behind bars, this book will challenge everything you believe about prisons, punishment, and the power of faith.
In God is Everywhere: Even Behind Bars, you will step inside a correctional institution and witness what happens when a Christian ministry takes root among men the world has written off. Through the firsthand testimonies of more than twelve inmates, you will hear how men emerged from lives shattered by abuse, addiction, and abandonment to find hope, purpose, and transformation through a faith-based program and a Character Restoration Initiative that is producing real results. You will also hear from a corrections officer with a twenty-two-year career in maximum security prisons, from dedicated volunteers, and from family members who have watched their loved ones become unrecognizable in the best possible way. This book asks hard questions about whether incarceration alone can reform anyone, and it offers compelling evidence that something deeper is needed.
John C. Handfield writes from years of hands-on ministry work inside the prison system, building the Where is God Ministry from a single calling into a program that is actively changing lives.
Whether you are wrestling with your own faith, questioning whether the justice system works, or simply searching for proof that no one is beyond hope, these stories will meet you where you are. Open the door. Walk inside. See what God is doing behind bars.