A TDCJ* Field Minister is an inmate who has graduated from the Theological Seminary College located at the Memorial Unit in Rosharon, Texas (men) or the Hobby Unit in Marlin, Texas (women). After completing their studies, they are assigned to prisons throughout Texas to assist the Unit Chaplain.
Field Ministers can also assist BTL by facilitating our program in units that do not allow volunteers. In this role, they not only guide inmate participants through the BTL curriculum, they also provide encouragement and support. When a Field Minister was recently asked by an inmate, "What is the Bridges To Life program?", he wrote these words in response:
xxxxx"Grace, Mercy, Forgiveness and Reconciliation are all words that express every person's deepest needs. In Bridges To Life, these concepts will come alive as you read and work through the material. This class was developed with the hope of helping the incarcerated embrace and accept these needs. Forgiven people change and are more likely to extend grace, mercy, forgiveness and reconciliation to others.
xxxxxOur interest is for you to be blessed by this course in order to change into the man you know you should be, and reconciled to those you have hurt. We each have more victims of our crimes than just those it was committed against.
xxxxxREMEMBER: None of us is as strong as all of us!"
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*Texas Department of Criminal Justice
