Ferrell continues to search for ways to reach those at risk for incarceration prior to their arrests.

"The opportunity to reach these high risk kids does exist, if we're  just willing to go where they are.

"We are spending time in the housing projects, providing gifts on holidays, clothes for the children there," Ferrell relates.

Ferrell had spent years in and out of trouble - in and out of prison.  It was in church one Sunday, where he'd gone to please his wife, that she reached over to take his hand and, instead, touched the hard steel casing of the pistol in the pocket of his jacket.  That was the Sunday Ferrell "got saved" and his live began to turn around.  Today he works relentlessly to free others form the same, seemingly endless cycle of anger-rejection-incarceration that keeps so many inmates on the path of self-destruction.

"You'll talk to these guys and they'll tell you that they've been wronged by society," Ferrell explains.  "It's so ingrained in their minds that sometimes it takes a ling timer for them to realize their crime warrants their incarceration""

The Faith Ministry is no stranger to the Mt Holly area.  Over the years the Ferrells have spearheaded food programs, helped to institute community-wide outreaches were ever a need was identified.

Today, Faith Ministry's  walls are virtually covered with awards and certificates and plaques attesting to the successes of the ministry and the other outreaches the Ferrells have developed.

"We need more partners willing to minister to the special needs of these people" Ferrell explains.  "We have a variety of positions for concerned individuals who would like to help work toward change."

Further, Ferrell invites those interested in learning more about Faith Ministry  to come out to their rural home just outside Mt Holly and see for themselves.

For Jack Ferrell and his wife Frieda, the ministry is their life.  No wonder it's working so well.