Most of my time is spent working hard to help others. In ministry it’s volunteering in the local jail as a chaplain. In business it’s spent developing voter information software that I hope will change the face of politics.

Ministry at the jail focuses on a unit (also known as a ‘pod’ or cell block) of thirty-one inmates who participate in classes designed to teach them to live responsibly. As a Christian ministry it has been very effective in the lives of hundreds of inmates over its ten year existence.

Last year the jail ministry had a setback. Due to complaints from Muslim inmates the jail administration decided to change our ‘God Pod’ ministry to a secular Responsible Living Unit. Later those complaints became the basis for a lawsuit backed by the ACLU. Our volunteers are no longer allowed to preach the Gospel message.

We want our God Pod back. I’ve been working with attorneys who focus on defending the religious rights of Christians. We’ve drafted a proposal that will be presented to the jail administration. We believe it to be an effective plan that will protect the jail from lawsuits from other groups and will protect Christians who rely on that ministry to better their lives.

My dilemma is that while I’m always willing to help I have a hard time accepting help from others. But I’ve learned that I can’t do this alone.

Right now your financial help is needed. Without it I may not be able to continue to do what I’m doing. I believe that the day-to-day work in the jail is important and also that the effort to get our God Pod back is even more important.

I can’t do it without your help. Please consider clicking the link below and donating whatever you can so that I can continue to help troubled men who want to better their lives.

Thank you for your support and your prayers in these difficult times.

May the Lord bless you and keep you.

Jeff

The Challenged Heart

A Christian's Perspective Of Abuse

Every year thousands of marriages and relationships are destroyed by abuse.  It leaves the victims hurting for years and those who inflicted the abuse alone and lost. 

Almost all of the information about the problem is intended to help the victim.  In itself, that's a good thing.  But when you see the absence of information to help those who's behavior has hurt others, you realize that it's a little one-sided.

What little information is available on the other side of the issue doesn't seem to be having any effect.  Most of it focuses on a very narrow scope of behavior and attitudes which may or may not apply in any given situation.

But not any longer.  In this new book Jeff Becker offers insight into what it is that makes people behave this way.  It's a Christian view that doesn't just label the behavior as 'sin' and offer a bunch of platitudes and general scriptures to fix the problem.  It's insightful and radically different than anything you're seen before.

See the problem from a Christian's perspective.

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