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Discipleship Unlimited...
Proclaiming freedom to captives for over
30 years!
"He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to announce that captives shall
be released."
Prison
Ministry
“You’re not coming to see inmates — you are coming to see people.”
Since 1986, Linda and Dallas have traveled to Gatesville, Texas, ministering
to the women inmates at Mountain View Unit, one of the prisons in the large
system there. After the first few years, they began bringing teams of
volunteers from throughout the country. Through the years, the team
developed relationships with all of the women at the prison, including the
women on Death Row. Linda developed a particularly close friendship with
Karla Faye Tucker and was asked to be her spiritual advisor prior to her
execution on February 3, 1998. Following Karla’s execution, more prisons in
Gatesville opened their doors to the ministry, expanding opportunities to
take volunteers to over 8,000 inmates in the eight prison units.
A month before her execution, Karla told the team:
“You guys come in here and you don’t see inmates, you see people. You see
people who are either in the body of Christ, or people who are still lost in
sin. You don’t see people who have committed crimes; you see people who have
committed sins. That makes a big difference in someone’s life like mine. We
feel acceptance from you …. You’re not coming to see inmates—you are coming
to see people. That’s why people open up to you. God has anointed you to do
deep inner healing and restoration.”
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