Prison Fellowship Australia is a part of the largest network of prison ministries in the world. Prison Fellowship International serves more than 800,000 prisoners across the globe. Prison Fellowship Australia itself was founded in 1981 and, through dedicated local leadership and governance, we have grown to be the foremost prison ministry in Australia. We are proud to be one of the founding members of the Prison Fellowship Global Capacity Initiative.
Since our foundation, Prison Fellowship Australia has developed as an accomplished and forward-thinking ministry within our global network. Through the Global Capacity Initiative, we are blessed to be able to share our strength and expertise to build the capacity of newer or less-established ministries in our network, helping them serve prisoners and their families more effectively. Utilising research into the most effective organisational capacity-building approaches, Prison Fellowship Australia provides peer-to-peer mentoring and support to less established international ministries around their identified development needs.
Prison Fellowship Australia has committed to providing its expertise alongside a small portion of its non-allocated funds (6%) to the Global Capacity Initiative. As a Christian ministry, we believe we have a responsibility to support our neighbours, and we desire to support and grow the in-prison Gospel work of our neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region: countries such as Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea.
The Global Capacity Initiative serves to maximise our partners’ effectiveness in the Asia-Pacific region by utilising Prison Fellowship Australia’s expertise and means – without any impact on Prison Fellowship Australia’s work at home. Please join us in prayer that God would bless our Asia-Pacific partners as they extend God’s love to prisoners and their families.
“Many of our ministries want and need help to grow – this initiative is part of an end-to-end capacity building strategy designed to engage ministries in our global family, who are in the early stages of organisational development, with more seasoned mentors, so they can serve prisoners and their families more effectively in the years to come.”
– Andy Corley, Prison Fellowship International CEO