RETURN PRISON MINISTRY
RETURN EXISTS
to take prisoners from corporate encounters with god into daily personal encounters with god
Robbert
Once known only by a gang-given name, he now goes by his birth name, Robbert.
Before salvation and baptism, Robbert was a leader in the Mexican Cartel. For privacy and safety, details beyond that cannot be shared. Because of the life he lived on the other side of these bars, Robbert will never know life outside this maximum-security prison.
On Easter weekend 2025, everything changed.
Robbert gave his life to the Lord and was baptized. As he came up from the waters, he told our co-founder Branden his birth name—declaring he was a new man and would no longer be known by his old identity.
"MY NAME IS NO LONGER *****"
Today, Robbert connects with God through expression—painting murals throughout Michael’s Unit maximum-security prison—encountering the Lord and creating beauty where darkness once ruled.
A new name. A new heart. A new life.
James & Sonny
A father serving time in prison came face to face with the young man who had taken his son’s life through gang violence when he was assigned to serve his sentence in the same prison...
This could have been incredibly hard, however James (the father) had been learning how to connect with God daily. In his encounters with the Lord, he discovered the power of true forgiveness—supernatural, costly, and real.
At a Return Encounter event, he approached the young man alongside our founder, Jeremiah Porter, and spoke words only God could author:
“I forgive you. And I adopt you into my family—the family of God. Your kids are my grandkids now, and I love you as the son I lost.”
This is the power of teaching prisoners how to connect with God.
True transformation is taking place!
Gregory
Once known throughout the prison as a neo-Nazi gang leader, Gregory’s life was marked by hatred, violence, and division.
Then he encountered Jesus.
Saved by the blood of Christ, Gregory was set free and baptized into a new life. Through learning how to connect with God, Gregory has embraced God’s creative nature—seeing the beauty of our differences without division or hatred.
Gregory God saved.
He Encountered Jesus.
He was baptized.
He has been discipled.
Today, he no longer views men through the lens of race or skin color, but only through the Blood of Jesus. Former enemies are now brothers.
This is the power of the Gospel.
This is true transformation.
