Along Side Ministries

Along Side Ministries To mobilize the Body of Christ to disciple and equip incarcerated men and women for victorious Christian living.

It is our true desire to bring glory to God by honoring his command to love one another. He doesn't say only love those who are not shunned by society - In fact - He sought those individuals out while He was here on earth. In line with the word of God - We believe our calling is to help the incarcerated Christian community learn how to walk with Jesus, as they transition from prison to society. Th

rough prayer, mentorship, and most importantly, love ~ Our ministry reaches out and walks alongside those incarcerated Christians that have the desire to follow Him with everything they are. Our mentorship program is intensive and specific. By the grace of a loving and merciful God, we have been able to be involved in His work.

The hardest part of restoration is the part in the middle.Not the moment you decided to change. Not the day everything c...
06/22/2026

The hardest part of restoration is the part in the middle.

Not the moment you decided to change. Not the day everything comes together. The long road in between — where the past is still loud and the future isn't clear yet.

Paul knew that road.

"Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal." — Philippians 3:13–14

He didn't write those words from a place of arrival. He wrote them from a prison cell.

He wasn't telling us the past doesn't matter. He was showing us it doesn't have to lead.

At Along Side Ministries, we walk with people in that middle place — not just at the beginning of the journey, and not just at the end, but in the long hard stretch where most people stop showing up.

Pray this today:
"God, I release what I cannot change. I fix my eyes on where You are taking me. Give me the courage to press on from exactly where I am."

With 8 days left in our $60K matching challenge, your gift is what makes it possible to keep showing up in that middle place. Every dollar still doubled.

→ Give before June 30. www.asmaz.com/social-donations Arizona residents: QCO tax credit, code 20298.

✨ A Life Redeemed ✨Eddie Mitchell’s testimony is a powerful reminder that no life is beyond the reach of God’s mercy, re...
06/19/2026

✨ A Life Redeemed ✨
Eddie Mitchell’s testimony is a powerful reminder that no life is beyond the reach of God’s mercy, restoration, and amazing grace. What began with hardship, poor choices, and prison was not the end of his story. Through surrender to Christ and the faithful support of Along Side Ministries, Eddie found hope, healing, and a renewed purpose. 🙏
Today, his family has been restored, his faith is stronger than ever, and his life stands as proof that God still makes all things new. What the enemy meant for evil, God turned into redemption and purpose. 💙
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 ✝️
✅ Support this life changing mission:
alongside-ministries.com/social-donations

This is what 25 years looks like.Men and women who walked in carrying nothing but the weight of what their choices cost ...
06/17/2026

This is what 25 years looks like.

Men and women who walked in carrying nothing but the weight of what their choices cost — and who walked out carrying something no program could give them.

God promises it in Isaiah 61:3: beauty for ashes. Oil of joy for mourning. A garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

We have seen it happen. In prison yards. In halfway houses. In the faces of people who had been told their story was finished — writing new ones.

Not because of what Along Side does. Because of what God does in a life that decides to trust Him with the broken pieces.

This is the work. This is why we go back inside every week.

Right now, you have a rare chance to be part of it — and to double your impact while you do.

Through June 30, every dollar given to Along Side Ministries is matched up to $60,000 by a group of generous donors. Your $50 becomes $100. Your $100 becomes $200.

The ashes-to-beauty work continues because people like you show up for it.

→ Give today — www.asmaz.com/social-donations . Arizona residents: your gift may also qualify for the QCO tax credit, code 20298.

Become part of the solution to the men and women that are transitioning from prison to society. God is at work! Your gif...
06/15/2026

Become part of the solution to the men and women that are transitioning from prison to society. God is at work! Your gift will begin to impact a life immediately.

May is almost over.And before the calendar turns we want to ask you something.What shifted in you this month?Not what yo...
05/28/2026

May is almost over.

And before the calendar turns we want to ask you something.

What shifted in you this month?

Not what you did. Not what you gave or signed up for or liked or shared. What shifted — quietly, internally, in the space between the noise of daily life and the moments when something you read or heard or felt actually landed somewhere real?

Because we believe something was planted this month.

In the people who started asking harder questions about who the vulnerable actually are. In the ones who felt something stir when they read about a man learning to read at forty or a woman overwhelmed by a grocery store after six years inside. In the person who has been thinking about writing a letter or showing up on a Wednesday evening but hasn't quite made the move yet.

Something was planted.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 reminds us that everything has a season. May was a season of seeing — of opening eyes to specific people in specific pain and asking God what our hands were made for.

June is a different season.
It's a season of restoration. Of renewal. Of what happens after the hard work of serving — when God begins to heal not just the people you showed up for but something in you as well.

We have seen this truth play out more times than we can count. The person who came to serve and found themselves being restored in the process. The volunteer who thought they were giving something and discovered they were receiving something they didn't know they needed.

That is what June holds.

Don't walk away from this community before you see it.

💬 What is one thing from this month — a thought, a moment, a shift — that you don't want to lose going into June? Tell us. We want to carry it with you.

Today the country pauses to remember people who kept going when everything in them wanted to stop.That's worth sitting w...
05/25/2026

Today the country pauses to remember people who kept going when everything in them wanted to stop.

That's worth sitting with for a moment.

Not just the sacrifice of soldiers — but the specific kind of courage it takes to continue doing something hard when the outcome isn't guaranteed. When the cost is real. When the end isn't yet in sight.

Galatians 6:9 speaks directly into that.

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."

Notice what Paul doesn't say. He doesn't say it will be easy. He doesn't say the weariness won't be real. He acknowledges it — let us not become weary — which means becoming weary was always a possibility worth naming.

Doing good is tiring. Showing up for people who are struggling is tiring. Caring about things that take years to change is tiring. Loving people through their worst when your own tank is running low is tiring.

And yet.

The harvest is coming.

Not might be coming. Not coming if you perform well enough. Coming. At the proper time. For those who don't give up.

We have seen this at Along Side. Men and women who looked like they were too far gone — and weren't. Families that looked like they couldn't survive one more fracture — and held. Stories that had every reason to end badly — and didn't.

The harvest doesn't always look like what you planted. But it comes.

This Memorial Day — honor the spirit of perseverance by refusing to quit on the good thing God has put in your hands. Whatever that is.

💬 What is something good and hard that you are still showing up for — even when it's tiring? You don't have to have a victory to share. Just tell us you're still in it.

Vulnerability rarely looks the way we expect it to.We tend to picture it as something obvious. Someone visibly falling a...
05/22/2026

Vulnerability rarely looks the way we expect it to.

We tend to picture it as something obvious. Someone visibly falling apart. A dramatic moment that clearly signals — this person needs help.

But in our experience sitting alongside people in some of the hardest seasons of their lives, vulnerability looks much quieter than that.

It looks like a man who hasn't told anyone he doesn't know how to read — and has been covering for it for forty years.

It looks like a woman who just got out after six years and is standing in a grocery store completely overwhelmed by how many choices there are for shampoo.

It looks like someone laughing loudly in a group because the alternative is admitting that nobody is waiting for them at home.

It looks like a phone call that doesn't get made because shame is louder than the need to hear a familiar voice.

Psalm 34:18 says the Lord is close to the brokenhearted. Not watching from a distance. Not waiting for them to clean themselves up. Close.

That's the posture Along Side tries to take. Not fixing from a distance. Not observing with sympathy. Getting close enough to actually see what's there.

Because you can't sit with someone's vulnerability until you understand what it actually looks like. And it almost never announces itself.

💬 What has taught you the most about what it means to truly see someone who is struggling? A moment, a person, an experience — we'd love to hear it.

The gospel saves you from something. But it also saves you for something. Not everyone hears that second part.A lot of u...
05/18/2026

The gospel saves you from something. But it also saves you for something. Not everyone hears that second part.

A lot of us met Jesus and stopped at grateful. Forgiven. Safe. And those things are real and they are gift. But somewhere along the way, the finish line and the starting gun got confused.
Ephesians 2:10 pulls it back into focus.

"We are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
The Greek word behind handiwork is poiema — it's where we get the word poem. You are not an accident. You are not a mistake the world gets to define. You are something God authored with intention, before you were born, through everything you've been through.

We get to watch this truth come alive every single week. We walk alongside men and women the world wrote off long before anyone gave them a chance. And what we keep finding — every single time — is that God never did. You cannot argue with a poem He authored before they ever saw the inside of a cell.

The good works were never the price of entry. They were written into the original design. We see people step out of prison and discover for the first time what they were actually made for. That's the original design coming alive.

That same truth is yours this week.

Not to earn anything. Not to prove anything. Just to walk in what was already written.

💬 What feels most like the poem God wrote when you do it — not because you have to, but just because it fits? Share it below. This is a safe place to say it.

68% of people released from prison return within three years. Nearly 7 out of 10.Not because they don't want better. Not...
05/15/2026

68% of people released from prison return within three years. Nearly 7 out of 10.

Not because they don't want better. Not because they aren't capable of more. But because the system they walked out of wasn't built to actually reach them — to walk alongside them through the hardest stretch of their lives.

That's what Along Side Ministries exists to do.

We are an Arizona-based, faith-centered prison ministry focused on both incarceration outreach and post-release discipleship. And what makes us different is this: we don't just show up at one point in someone's journey. We stay for all of it.

Inside prison — Gospel outreach, Bible study, and mentoring for incarcerated men and women who want to go deeper in their faith and prepare for what comes next.

Through the transition — Structured discipleship and support as someone moves from incarceration toward release. This is where the commitment is made and the foundation is built.

After release — Reentry assistance, accountability, and community rebuilding for men and women stepping into Phase II of the program. Safe housing. Real relationships. A place to belong.

This is what we call a continuum of transformation. Programs that combine spiritual transformation and practical reentry support produce outcomes that outreach alone simply cannot. They address identity, stability, community connection, and the deep-rooted patterns that lead back to prison.
97% of Along Side graduates get out and stay out.

That number has a reason. Faith that holds when everything else lets go. Community that refuses to walk away. And people — volunteers, donors, prayer partners — who believed the 97% was worth fighting for.
Your support doesn't just reach someone in prison. It walks alongside them all the way to restoration.

👉 Two ways to be part of the 97%:
🤝 Volunteer your time — alongside-ministries.com/volunteer
💛 Donate to the mission — alongside-ministries.com/social-donations

💬 What made you first believe that restoration was possible for someone? We'd love to hear it in the comments.

Graduation at Along Side Ministries is more than a ceremony.It is a celebration of redemption, transformation, and the w...
05/13/2026

Graduation at Along Side Ministries is more than a ceremony.
It is a celebration of redemption, transformation, and the work God is doing in the lives of men and women seeking a new path forward.
At graduation, stories are shared, victories are celebrated, and graduates raise swords as symbols of the battles they’ve overcome and the strength they carry forward through Christ.
Read more about what makes these graduations so meaningful:
https://www.alongside-ministries.com/post/what-i-saw-at-a-prison-ministry-graduation

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2830 W Northern Avenue
Phoenix, AZ
85051

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Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm

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