College of Ministry

It's hard to believe we are in our 12th year together. Thank you for your continued generosity and prayer. Daily, the Lord has supplied our needs. We are committed to excellent stewardship, resonable projections, and prayerful following of the Lord in every step of this work he allows us to be a part of every day.

Here is our plan to continue in good stewardship. Stable, sustainable, generational — this is our heart for stewardship. We need you. We need those giving monthly to increase in number. We need the equivalent of 420 donors willing to give $200 per month. Any monthly gift helps greatly. Would you be willing to consider what you can give to the work of The Heart of Texas Foundation? Can you join with others to give $200 per month? Donate.

The Texas Field Ministers. 202 active Field Ministers are serving 86,366 men in 42 prisons. 64% of all men in TDCJ have access to a Field Minister team.


Literacy. 18 Field Ministers, certified literacy instructors, are skillfully teaching other men how to read.


Field Minister Academy. We are planning with TDCJ a multi-day gathering of all Field Ministers across the state for the purposes of continuing training and an opportunity for them to fellowship and be strengthened by one another.

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Field Minister Jimmy D. at the Estelle Unit

High security graduation led by the Field Ministers at the Estelle Unit. Field Ministers Jimmy Delgado and Ervin Kay led more than 70 men from high security through several TDCJ-approved classes which their students completed and were awarded a certificate. This is the fourth such graduation at the Estelle Unit.

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Field Minister Ervin K. at the Estelle Unit

College of Ministry. Class is in full swing. 142 men and 31 women are students in The Heart of Texas Foundation | College of Ministry preparing to become Field Ministers under our new curriculum. Both campuses are led by our capable team flanked with adjunct faculty who all activley serve in minsitry as pastors, missionaries, doctors, nurses, and even visiting faculty from other institutions. (Click Academic Catalog to see the curriculum)


Director Mark Baker, Ph.D. and Deputy Director Dr. Dan Reinhardt, Ph.D. lead the student body at the College of Ministry Memorial Unit for men.


Director Brenna Norwood, Ph.D. and Grove Norwood lead the student body at the College of Minstry at the Hobby Unit for women.

Class of 2025 student Asinate M. (2 min.)

Class of 2025 student Stacy J. (7 min.)

The Heart of Texas Foundation Press.


Exiles: A Prisoner's Daily Devotional, published by The Heart of Texas Foundation, continues to be a sought after resource for men and women all over the world.

News.

"Foundation helps inmates with religious education," by Rick Cousins, Galveston News, Friday, February 11, 2022.


"Ministry trains inmates to preach inside prisons," by Rick Cousins, Galveston News, Friday, February 18, 2022.

Grove Norwood has been nominated for the Governor's Volunteer Award for his work with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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Field Minister cell to cell ministry

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Become a part of taking the good news of Jesus to the darkest of places. Field Ministers can go where we cannot, reach who we can only reach together with them.

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Dear Friend,


We will have more impact this year than ever before if we have your continued help.


If you are willing to continue as a monthly giver, we will be able to achieve things through The Heart of Texas Foundation that we have never done before—more prisons, more inmates, more of their families, and more of the TDCJ staff. 


If you help us find another giver like you who will join our family of givers, you will enable the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to be shared to a greater extent than ever before through The Heart of Texas Foundation.


Please help us to increase our financial base this year. We are not volunteer-driven, we are inmate-driven. That’s why we need your help to support our two campuses, our two student bodies of men and women inmates.


We are not trying to grow bigger; we are trying to grow deeper. We want to embed the gospel into the Texas prison system in deeper ways, and do it through the changed lives of our Field Ministers, both men and women.


The gospel changes lives. And we all want that for men and women who live in the darkest of places. That’s where our College of Ministry goes, that’s where our Texas Field Ministers go.


Please stay with us as we all work to train and send them.


In Christ always, with thanks for you,

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