These include people confined to nursing homes, sheltered living arrangements, prisons, hospitals, group homes, and centers for the disabled. They cannot come to us but depend on us to go to them. We also prepare materials to encourage those serving the institutionalized and to give them guidance and direction in serving the various areas of the institutionalized. For the past several years we have concentrated on placing Bibles and Bible correspondence courses for prisoners into jails and penitentiaries across the United States and Canada. We now have 11 correspondence courses in print.
More courses are in various stages of preparation.
We are told that we operate the largest prison ministry in North America in terms of materials placed into prisons and penitentiaries and the number of volunteers involved in operating the program. This is distinct from other programs where individuals actually go into the prisons and penitentiaries and deal with the prisoners face to face. To God alone be the glory. We recognize that he is able to withdraw his blessings as quickly as he gave them. With the new prison ministry administrator, Mr. David Nack, on board, the IMC hopes to devote more time to those institutionalized in settings other than prisons and penitentiaries.