BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

“From the time we began this ministry, that scripture…became very alive in me,” says Brother Copeland. [Prison outreach] was not the mainstream calling of this ministry, but it’s everyone’s calling to a degree. So, every door that was open to us, we stepped through it.” Over the years, KCM has worked hard to share the power of the blessed life to those behind bars—from supplying books and other resources for chaplains; to donating $250,000 to construct a chapel for inmates in Texas; to partnering with others, like Mike Barber Ministries, which is dedicated solely to prison ministry. In 1995, Barber became the catalyst enabling KCM to broadcast the Eagle Mountain Motorcycle Rally live via satellite to inmates in Texas and 15 other states. In Texas alone, 87 of the 104 state prisons received the satellite broadcast. To more than 150,000 men and women who had access to the broadcast, Brother Copeland’s message was clear and strong: “God is for you, not against you!” Today, KCM receives an average of 2500 letters a month from prison inmates, and adds an average of 300 new inmates monthly to our mailing list. Frequently, we read comments in letters from inmates such as, “You are the only ministry that writes to me.” In addition to mail correspondence, KCM continues to provide Bibles, devotionals and other resources to inmates free of charge. In 2020, for example, nearly 410,000 resource materials, including Bibles, magazines, books and other products, were sent to prison chaplains in the U.S., and another 8600 were sent directly to inmates. In a letter we received from a prison unit in Daytona Beach, Fla., an inmate wrote: “I’m an inmate and wanted to thank KCM for all the support and prayer over the last year; it has made me see there really is a purpose for my life.” An International Cause While nearly 14,000 of our Partners and Friends who are incarcerated received ministry from KCM’s U.S. headquarters in 2020, another 7,000 receive ministry from KCM’s international offices. An inmate incarcerated in Istanbul, Turkey, perhaps speaks the thoughts and feelings of many like her who are incarcerated around the world. She wrote: “I thank the Lord for this opportunity to share a word or two with you and the entire prison ministry team: God has continued to be faithful and gracious to me, my husband in the men’s prison, and our entire family back home. I am very grateful—I don’t take it for granted. I keep considering myself very much blessed despite the incarceration situation my husband and I are living in right now. We both continue to give our lives to Him fully, to do His will. “Thank you all for your continuous guidance in the way of letters and making inspirational books and materials available to us as often as you do. The monthly letters bring us together in worship...thank you for all your effort to make sure the message reaches us, despite the distance. “The books, too, are such a blessing to go through.... I have no words to express my gratitude toward the ministry for what you are doing; so thanks a lot and may you all and your family be mighty blessed. I am honored to be a part of your family till the very end of this race on earth, to eternity, in Jesus’ Name.” KCM’s prison ministry is just one more way we’re taking the saving message of Jesus around the world. It’s our way of letting people everywhere know that we’re here for you—no matter who you are, where you are or what you’ve done. As Gloria Copeland says: “We’ve been ministering in prisons for a long time and we know it makes a difference. We want to thank you, our Partners, because you supply all the material—whatever we have, [the inmates] can have—and you’re the ones who help us do that.” V BVOV : 25

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