Greetings again everyone: Many of you are aware that I have been providing church services / bible teaching in the jails for about 20 years now. Your generosity has provided about 1,000 bibles so far for the inmates. The Bibles have all been given out to the inmates, So I'm starting another GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to purchase Bibles and bring them into the jails for distribution, as all of the last batch of bibles have been given out to inmates.

MANY of you donated to he last campaign I ran 2 years ago - THANK YOU! You helped bring 500 bibles into the jails. As I mentioned, those bibles have all been distributed (the inmates get to keep them and take them with them when they get released), and the Chaplain asked me to bring more. I am hoping to restock the facility at Watkins Street Jail in Phoenix, AZ. Also the Chaplain from the 4th St Jail has asked for me to supply bibles.

I do not know if a target of 750 Bibles is too much (I have been doing 500 at a time), but at the rate that they are being distributed to the inmates, it seems like a good goal.

The Bible's cost $7 each so now and I'm looking to get 750 hundred of them into the jails which would be $5,250. I will be purchasing and delivering them myself in person to Watkins Street Jail here in Phoenix. Feel free to donate any amount that you wish, as every dollar makes a difference.

Thank you for your support, and please be praying for the inmates and this jail ministry that God would be glorified in the redemption and salvation of those who hear the Word and respond wholeheartedly.

One last note: We have been able to add team members to our Jail Ministry, and we are excited for the new members who are receiving the HUGE blessing of getting to serve God and the inmates in the Maricopa County Jails - Please be praying for them in their ministry that God would do a wonder in their lives and in all the lives of those that they touch in bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the incarcerated.

In Christ,

Michael S Elia