I'm ready to get involved.
Five ways in, from your kitchen table to a prison visiting room. Pick the ones that fit, or several, and tell us at the bottom of this page. You don't have to be qualified. You have to be faithful, available and teachable.
Every one of them needed.
The person who prays every morning and the person who answers a letter every week are doing the same work. Paul could not have done his without the people who prayed, gave, wrote and visited.
Prayer Partner
This is the first ask, not the small one. These are real spiritual battles, and the men and women inside can tell when they are being prayed for.
- Adopt one West Coast jail or prison and pray for it weekly
- Pray for laborers, inside and outside (Luke 10:2)
- Get stories and first-name prayer requests as they come
- Bring them to your small group or prayer chain
Financial Partner
This is growing faster than the funding. Gifts go to the Prison Ministry Outreach fund at Neighbors & Nations Church, the same fund behind the Oregon and California work.
- Bibles and printed study sets sent inside
- Coach travel to jails and prisons up and down the coast
- Clearances, training and video visits
- Workshops and vision dinners that raise up new coaches
Want to fund the person instead? Support Joe Kimmell, who leads this work full time through E3 Partners.
NPL Coach
Get equipped, get connected to a jail or prison where men and women are already working through the training, and coach them. Mostly by letter, phone and video. No prison clearance needed to start.
- Men coach men; women coach women
- Free training online, and a monthly call on Zoom
- Coach without controlling: they lead, you equip
- Be family when they come home
Monthly training call · First Saturday · 1:30 pm PacificNext call: the first Saturday of next month
Before you start: the training library and the coach toolkit (four roads in, your state's front door, letter templates).
Pioneer
Washington, Alaska and Hawaiʻi are still waiting for their first laborers. If God is stirring you for the jails and prisons where you live, we want to pray with you and walk with you as you start.
- Pray for one facility near you, and gather two or three others
- Get trained alongside the Oregon and California coaches
- Open the first doors: a chaplain, a sheriff, one man inside
- Host a vision night at your church
From “I'm interested” to coaching a leader inside.
Becoming an NPL coach is a real commitment, not a program you sign up for and forget. Here is the road.
Fill out the form below
It takes two minutes. A real person reads every sign-up and will reach out.
Get trained, free
Join the monthly Zoom training call (join link) and work through the 4-Fields level one training yourself. You practice it before you pass it on.
Get connected to a facility
We connect you to a jail or prison near you where men or women are already working through the training and asking for someone to walk with them. The coach toolkit shows the roads in for your state.
Cast vision, train, coach
Help the leaders inside launch and multiply simple churches from within, by letter, phone, video and visits where the facility allows.
Join the learning community
Share what is working with other coaches across the West Coast, and with the national NPL Prisons USA learning community.
A few things we ask of everyone who writes or visits. Use a ministry or PO box return address, not your home. Never send money or carry messages for anyone. Leave people's cases and charges out of letters, notes and social media. Follow each facility's rules. Men walk with men and women with women. We cover all of it in training.
Tell us how you want to be part of this.
Check every box that fits. You can change your mind later.
- A real person reads every one of these.
- Your state, city and the facility on your heart are how we connect coaches, and how we see which places nobody is praying for yet.
- If you only want to pray, say so. That is not the small option.
- Already serving inside somewhere? Tell us. We'd love to know you.
- We never share your information. Not with other ministries, not with anyone.
“Here I am. Send me.”
Isaiah said it before he knew where he was going. You don't need to know either. Start with the box that fits, and we'll walk the rest of the way with you.