As you view this website, OVER 50,000 MEN AND WOMEN ARE IN GEORGIA PRISONS
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Red Clay Ministries, Inc.
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Serving the Correctional Community in Georgia
501(c)3 Non-Profit Public Charity
Red Clay Ministries, Inc.
The mission of Red Clay Ministries is to meet the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of the correctional community by sharing the Light of The Gospel of Jesus Christ to all. (The painting (left) is by a Georgia inmate)
Red Clay Ministries Today
The ministries of Red Clay serve the Correctional Community
Today, Red Clay Ministries has 55 volunteers. Thirty of the Red Clay Volunteers are certified by the Georgia Department of Corrections to go "inside" the state prisons to serve.
The Ministries of Red Clay...
PICTURE THIS! Video Ministry
West Central Integrated Treatment Facility
West Central Integrated Treatment Facility
Ministry Leader:
Millie Cook
The PICTURE THIS! Video Ministry produces videos of former inmates, prison chaplains, and others who share their stories of encouragement to inmates. These stories also share information on how to move from prison back into society, successfully.
The PICTURE THS! Videos are streamed into the Georgia Department of Corrections' Re-Entry Prison and the Spalding County Jail.
To view one of the PICTURE THIS! Videos, Click the button below. The video features Damon Corn, former inmate, now a Baptist minister, and Team Lead for the Red Clay New Life Academy at Atlanta Transitional Center
West Central Integrated Treatment Facility
West Central Integrated Treatment Facility
West Central Integrated Treatment Facility
Ministry Leader:
Tina Renew
The West Central Integrated Treatment Facility is a medium-security, short-term, intensive rehabilitation center for adult female inmates who are in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections. This facility is located in Zebulon, Georgia and can house a maximum of 194 residents.
Red Clay Ministries began prison ministry at West Central over 20 years ago with a small team of three volunteers. Today, at West Central, Red Clay Ministries provides special programs; an opportunity each month for the women to make cards for their children, family, and friends; the New Life Academy (decribed in the column to the right); and Sole Encounters (described in the middle column below).
Red Clay Ministries' also coordinates the Little Readers Program of Heartbound Ministries. In this program, Red Clay Volunteers video women reading a children's book to their child. Heartbound Ministies mails the video and the book to the child.
Red Clay Ministries' New Life Academy
West Central Integrated Treatment Facility
Red Clay Ministries' New Life Academy
Ministry Leader: Rhonda Morgan
The New Life Academy is a Bible- based program that takes incarcerated men and women through a holistic life transformation process. Participants are guided by Red Clay volunteers to lead lives of purpose and productivity while incarcerated, and to continue that life upon release. This is achieved by discussions in groups of inmates of how to apply scripture to everyday life, no matter where we are or our situation.
The New Life Academy is a three-month, six-month or nine-month program with a graduation at the conclusion of the program. Classes are in a discussion-group format and focus on making choices to identify areas needing to change in their lives and moving forward to change.
Red Clay Ministries is looking for churches, who want to answer the call to prison ministry by volunteering to assist in the academy program. If you or your church are interested, please click on the "To Receive More Information" button below.
Deliver Hope Ministry
Spalding County Jail and Pike County Jail
Red Clay Ministries' New Life Academy
Ministry Leader:
Cindy Chesna
Deliver Hope is a ministry of encouragement to Inmates, Correctional Officers and Staff in the prisons and jails where Red Clay Ministries' Volunteers serve.
The Deliver Hope Team delivered gift bags and Hygiene Products to over 1500 inmates in 2024 and is on-schedule to deliver more in 2025!
The Deliver Hope team delivers food, goodies, and scriptures to Correctional Staff. There are over 6500 Correctional Officers in Georgia; plus, Correctional staff.
The Deliver Hope Ministry has a team of volunteers who meet weekly to handcraft greeting cards of encouragement to Inmates, Officers, and Staff in the prisons. In 2025, this team willl make over 2500 cards to deliver hope to the "inside."
Sole Encounters Evangelistic Events
Spalding County Jail and Pike County Jail
Spalding County Jail and Pike County Jail
Ministry Leader: Gordon MacFarlane
The Sole Encounters Evangelism Ministry Team hosts events outside in the prison yard. A Sole Encounter event includes a program of music, testimonies, speakers, and food. Hundreds of inmates are in attendance at a Sole Encounters' event.
The name, Sole Encounters, is based on the fact that people must have an encounter with Jesus Christ that is their own (sole) encounter. Jesus saves us and our soul is changed, solely, by our faith in Jesus Christ for eternal life.
Spalding County Jail and Pike County Jail
Spalding County Jail and Pike County Jail
Spalding County Jail and Pike County Jail
Ministry Leader:s
Cindy Chesna & Rhonda Morgan
The Spalding County Jail houses approximately 500 men and women who have been arrested, waiting for trial, or have been sentenced and are awaiting transport to prison.
The Red Clay Ministries' PICTURE THIS! Video Ministry produces videos of former inmates, and others, who have encouragement to share on how to transition from jail or prison to society (and live a productive life) and streams the videos, electronically, into the jail for the men and women being held at the jail.
Red Clay provides Christmas gift bags of hygiene products and snacks to the men and women incarcerated at Spalding and Pike County Jails.
Do you think that if Jesus was on earth today that he would be hanging out at the country jail? We think He would.
The county jail is the first place of incarceration before prison in Georgia.
The Ministries of Red Clay Ministries, Inc.
Red Clay M.O.M.
Ministry Leader:
Sandy Jones
Red Clay M.O.M. [Mothers On Mission] is a faith-based, weekly support group for mothers (grandmothers, wives, aunts, sisters, nieces, or any woman) who have a loved one in prison.
LaLa's Big Bible Dream--an affiliate of Red Clay Ministries
Ministry Leader:
Lala
Lala had a dream when she was eight-years-old that she and her family were giving Bibles to prisoners. Since that dream, Lala's Big Bible Dream has given over 500 Bibles to prisoners.
Freedom Focused Ministries--an affiliate ministry
Freedom Focused Ministries--an affiliate ministry
Ministry Leaders:
Willie and
Ann-Maria Benton
BEING IMPRISONED ISN'T JUST A PHYSICAL THING!
Red Clay Ministries is pleased to be affiliated with Freedom Focused Ministries.
Whether an individual is in prison, released from prison, or never served time in prison, FREEDOM FOCUSED MINISTRIES is passionate about Encouraging, Equipping, and Empowering individuals to become FREE to live out their God-given purpose. Freedom Focused Ministries also serves as the liason for Red Clay with two ministries serving released felons. These two ministries are equipped to determine the needs of these men and women and equip them for success. Red Clay Ministries provides financial resources to meet the needs of those who are released.
How can you donate financial resources to Red Clay? Those listed with * are free to you, but mean so much to us!
MAKE A RECURRING DONATION FOR A VERY LOW SERVICE FEE
Red Clay Ministries, Inc. uses PayPal Giving Fund to process all donations made by credit card.
You do not need a PayPal account to donate using your credit card.
The receipt for your tax-deductible donation to Red Clay Ministries, Inc. will come from PayPal Charities.
[The processing fee for recurring donations is
$ .0199 of the donation amount plus $.49 cents, which is a much lower processing fee than most credit card processing companies charge.
EXAMPLE: A monthly donation of $50 would be charged a service fee of ONLY 99.5 cents ; plus 49 cents, for a total $1.49 Service Fee for your monthly donation. Red Clay Ministries will receive $48.51 for each $50 donation]
*Walmart "round-Up" program with Red Clay Ministries
*Donate each time you order online from Walmart.com -- You may donate at checkout if you are picking up; having your order shipped to you; or having your ordered delivered by walmart. The change you donate by "rounding-up" to the next dollar will be much appreciated by red clay ministries
You will need an account on Walmart.com. After you have an account, select COMMUNITY & GIVING at the top/left side of the page; Select SUPPORT A LOCAL CHARITY; on the next page, type RED CLAY MINISTRIES, INC., then, follow the instructions to register your Walmart account for Red Clay Ministries. Each time you shop online, you will be asked if you would like to "round-up" your total to the next dollar. You will be donating your change to Red Clay!
