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Key Bearers Can Change More Lives This Christmas

Last Christmas, Key Bearers across the United States opened their hearts in the midst of a disastrous recession and provided nearly $62,000 during December and January to send a message of hope to the nation’s incarcerated. Donations received from Key Bearers in that two-month period covered the expense of printing and mailing more than 263,000 Pentecostal Evangels to 500-plus correctional […]

Key Bearers Sponsor More Than 8.2 Million Evangels

Thanks to generous Key Bearers, the ministry that provides copies of the Pentecostal Evangel to the incarcerated surpassed the 8.2 million mark as of Aug. 31. The Key Bearers program has raised in excess of $1.83 million since its 1996 inception and underwrites the printing and shipping of at least 10,000 Evangels every week to more than 500 correctional institutions […]

Evangel’s Appeal and Message Prove to be Timeless

Two weeks after receiving a salvation coupon from a Texas inmate who had recently read a Sept. 30, 2001, copy of the Pentecostal Evangel, the publication was sent a report from a man in West Memphis, Ark., testifying he had committed his life to Jesus Christ with the assistance of the Nov. 19, 2000, issue.
The fact there are […]

Inmate Makes Salvation Decision With Aid of 2001 Evangel

A Texas inmate picks up a copy of the Pentecostal Evangel and after reading the magazine decides to commit his life to Jesus Christ. It happens several times every day in correctional institutions throughout the United States. But this particular instance is far from typical.
The prisoner is incarcerated in Lubbock, nearly 600 miles from the church that provided the Evangel. And the […]

Going Back to Prison, Voluntarily

Inmates at Phoenix-area jails and prisons have an unlikely ally ministering to them every week: seven-time felon Steve “Gator” Gaede. See Midlife Musings.

Ministering in the Wake of Tragedy

What’s it like for parents who have been in the ministry to have a child serving a prison term for murder? John and Doris Knoles know. See Midlife Musings.

Evangel Takes Part in National Evangelists Conference

Today’s Pentecostal Evangel was among several entities exhibiting during the National Evangelists Conference on Dec. 3 and 4 at Central Bible College in Springfield, Mo. Besides providing complimentary copies of Theology in a Nutshell to attendees visiting the magazine’s table, the Evangel also donated a complete in-print set from the Pentecostal Evangel Books library as a special […]

Christmas Gifts a Blessing to Key Bearers

Few Christmas gifts have the eternal impact like a holiday donation to the Key Bearers ministry. That’s because thousands of imprisoned men and women have experienced new lives in Jesus Christ since the 1996 inception of Key Bearers.
The Key Bearers program has provided 7.4 million copies of the weekly Today’s Pentecostal Evangel and the Spanish quarterly Evangelio […]

Record Week for Salvation Reports

Today’s Pentecostal Evangel received an all-time high 85 salvation reports from readers during the week of Sept. 8-12. The record response pushed the number of conversions reported to the Evangel this year to 1,721.
Should the current pace continue, TPE will surpass the previous high of 2,231 salvation coupons submitted during 2007. Since the Evangel began regularly carrying a response form in 1997, […]

Dennis Skillicorn Update: A Temporary Reprieve

Midlife Musings readers who have taken an interest in Dennis Skillicorn’s case will want to know that he won’t be executed on Wednesday after all. He has been granted at least a 30-day extension.

Visiting Death Row

Dennis Skillicorn knows he will die a week from today. He is praying that God will be glorified. See Midlife Musings.

Key Bearers Reaches 7.3 Million Evangels

Thanks to a tremendous pace in donations this year, the Key Bearers ministry has surpassed the 7.3 million mark in the number of Today’s Pentecostal Evangels provided to the incarcerated since 1996. Giving for 2008 could easily surpass the record of nearly $177,800 received last year.
The donations to the Key Bearers program reflect the concern by […]

Salvation Reports Climb with Key Bearer Donations

As donations to the Key Bearers ministry reach record levels, so do the number of incarcerated men and women committing their lives to Jesus Christ. By the end of June, 615 inmates reported making salvation decisions during the first six months of 2008.
More than 5,200 prisoners have mailed salvation response forms to the offices of Today’s Pentecostal Evangel […]

Key Bearers Reaches 7 Million Milestone

It took nearly 3 years for the first 1 million copies of Today’s Pentecostal Evangel to be provided to the incarcerated through the Key Bearers program that was created in 1996. Thanks to generous and loyal supporters, the ministry now sponsors more than 730,000 Evangels on an annual basis.
Donations received during April pushed the total number of underwritten […]

Faith Behind Bars

I like going to prison to interview Christian inmates. The time inside the walls never fails to lift my spirits. I come away heartened by the faith of men who are living disciplined spiritual lives.

A Purposeful Delay

Often when we are inconvenienced with unexpected waits, at airports or elsewhere, God has a plan in mind, if we’re not too bent out of shape to listen. See Midlife Musings.

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