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In the year 2000 ARM was a nation-wide ministry,
servicing 4,806 federal, state and county jails and prisons in the United
States. But in 2001, we branched out inter-nationally to embrace two
prison ministries in Mexico: one in Mexico City under the management of
Alfredo Jose Aparicio, psychologist and president of Centro de
Comunicaciones Culturales, A. C., and another under the direction of
Ernesto and Olga Fuentes, who also oversee a Bible seminary and children’s
home in Saltillo.
Now, in 2002, we have gone inter-continental by
extending our prison outreach to include Ghana, Africa; Moscow, Russia;
and Trivandrum, India. Through these five mission fronts we have now
amplified our ministry to comprise 37 jails and prisons abroad.
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GHANA, AFRICA: CHRISTIAN PAT ADJEI PRESIDENT
OF GHANA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE AND DIRECTOR OF CHRISTIAN’S PRISON
MINISTRY, INC.
Brother Adjei and select students at Ghana
Christian College already work in the Msawam medium security
penitentiary, James Fort penal institution and James Camp prison.
They take gifts such as food and toiletry items to the prisoners,
then teach and preach the Gospel to them. Through their affiliation
with ARM they hope to expand into other correctional facilities and
eventually provide full-time jail and prison workers.
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA: NIKOLAI EVGENIEVICH ALECHINE
RECEIVED HIS MASTERS IN CHEMISTRY FROM KUBAN STATE UNIVERSITY AND
HIS Ph.D. IN BIOLOGY AT TASHKENT INSTITUTE
Brother Alechine was arrested as an American spy
and spent three years (1999 – 2001) in two different prisons in
Krasnodar. There he organized a Christian fraternity known as
"The Brotherhood of the Lord’s Friends". Since his
release from prison he has continued faithful in prison ministry and
has, over the past three years, baptized 75 prisoners into Christ.
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TRIVANDRUM, INDIA: LALU AND LUANN JOSEPH
VETERAN MISSIONARIES TO KERALA … INDIA’S SOUTHERNMOST STATE
Lalu and LuAnn will augment their existing prison
ministry by translating ARM’s Bible studies into the local dialect
and making them available to prisoners. They will also serve as
liaisons between ARM and other jail and prison ministries in India.
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