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News Alexandria, VA, US: Churches Connecting Inmates to Loved Ones
story shared courtesy of Potomac Conference
Potomac Conference’s Alexandria Spanish and Fredericksburg congregations in Virginia are currently connected to 18 Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) prisons, offering what possibly no other Adventist church in the world does—video conferencing to unite inmates with their loved ones.
Leaders from a Christian church in Richmond, Va., invited Ryland Holmes, the conference’s director for Families and Re-entry programs, to witness prison video conferencing. “At the time, [that church] had serviced more than 2,000 families,” explains Hector Cruz, senior coordinator for the Potomac Conference’s Prison Ministries department. “Ryland was so excited he called me and said I needed to come down right away to see this for myself. He was really touched by what this church was doing—it was connecting families with Virginia Department of Corrections.”