Description
Our goal is to bring the love of Christ to those in prison by providing encouragement, material support, transition and reintegration services, Christian education, spiritual guidance and the sacramental life of the Church.
History
In 1991, Metropolitan Philip, primate of the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America, asked Father Duane Pederson, a highly experienced prison minister, to establish a prison ministry for the Archdiocese. In 2005, His Eminence graciously offered the Archdioceses prison ministry to SCOBA. Shortly thereafter, OCPM was chartered by SCOBA as its official prison ministry.
OCPM continues to build on Father Duanes vision of ministering to prisoners and their families by mobilizing the Church to work in this important vineyard of the Kingdom of Heaven.