{"id":2085,"date":"2020-02-19T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/?page_id=2085"},"modified":"2025-05-08T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:00:26","slug":"prison-evangelism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/?page_id=2085","title":{"rendered":"Prison Evangelism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click this link to open the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@OffTheChainMinistriesInc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube page<\/a> of &#8220;Off the Chain Ministries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lawtey-Me-Staged-Teaching-Class-09-2010resized-e1412850293732.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lawtey-Me-Staged-Teaching-Class-09-2010resized-e1412850293732.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lawtey-Me-Staged-Teaching-Class-09-2010resized-e1412850293732.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lawtey-Me-Staged-Teaching-Class-09-2010resized-e1412850293732-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>One of our members, Daryl Townsend, serves full-time in the kingdom as an evangelist in the N. Florida prisons. The church here and other local churches provide direct financial support to Daryl in his work as an evangelist.<\/p>\n<p>Daryl also operates a not for profit 501 (c) (3) Florida Corporation called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/offthechainministries.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Off The Chain Ministries<\/a><\/span>. Individuals, not local churches, help to financially support Off The Chain Ministries.<\/p>\n<p>Off The Chain&#8217;s mission is to provide care, study, and leadership to those looking for freedom and grace from past life experiences. Since 2006 Daryl has been operating a transition housing program to help men transition back into society after their release from prison.\u00a0The brethren here welcome &#8220;the transition guys&#8221; and offer them the care and love of an encouraging family of fellow Christians. Many of those who &#8220;graduate&#8221; from the transition program remain in Middleburg to continue their new life and worship with us because they value the spiritual support of their church family.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click this link to open the YouTube page of &#8220;Off the Chain Ministries.&#8221; One of our members, Daryl Townsend, serves full-time in the kingdom as an evangelist in the N. Florida prisons. The church here and other local churches provide direct financial support to Daryl in his work as an evangelist. Daryl also operates a not for profit 501 (c) (3) Florida Corporation called Off The Chain Ministries. Individuals, not&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/?page_id=2085\" class=\"read_link\"><span>Keep Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2085","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4836,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2085\/revisions\/4836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}