"Home for the Holidays" Christmas Campaign 2024

Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays,
For no matter how far away you roam,
If you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze,
For the holidays you can’t beat HOME SWEET HOME!

Truly, there’s no place like HOME for the holidays! These are precious memories that you’ll remember your whole life long… But hold on. All of this begins to blur and fade away… What is happening?  The loved ones, the sights, the smells, the sounds – they’re all melting away… only to be replaced by the shocking reality of a jail cell.

“Oh there’s no place like HOME for the holidays.” I’m an INMATE. This STATE PRISON is my “home” now. This is where I live – and it’s where I’m going to live for years and years. These bars, these cinderblock walls, the barbed wire – all of this is my home now. I have no “family” here. The slack in letters, visits, etc. over the last couple of years speaks the cold, hard truth: I’m not really part of a real “family” anymore, and likely nobody even thinks about me or cares about me.

If you are an inmate and feel unloved, alone, judged, ashamed, worthless, forgotten, is there anyone or anything that can HELP???  For over 100 years, with YOUR help and support, GraceInside has placed caring, compassionate CHAPLAINS in Virginia’s state prisons.  Currently we have 33 Chaplains, stationed at all 40 Virginia state correctional facilities, ministering to 24,000 incarcerated men and women. Our Chaplains provide pastoral care, crisis care and spiritual counseling and encouragement to these all too often forgotten men and women – people that Jesus called “the least of these” and told us to LOVE!

This Christmas season, would you please pray for God’s leading and then GIVE the very best gift you can give to help GraceInside hire, compensate and provide adequate ministry hours for caring, compassionate Chaplains? Or better still, would you become a recurring monthly donor/sponsor, helping us let every single inmate in our state prisons know that he/she is a beloved Child of God? Thank you SO much for your prayerful partnership and support in this vitally important ministry!