More than 700 inmates attended the worship service and witnessed their fellow inmates accept the call from God.
The event was facilitated by 32 volunteers who served 1,000 hot meals, distributed 700 Bibles, and handed out 1,300 Bible study books. The outreach was led by Pastor Paul Daugherty who leads Victory Christian Center in Tulsa. He told CBN news, “I really feel like there’s a harvest of people in the prisons that we could reach with God’s love that [only a few] churches in our city [are] really going after.”
He noted that God gave him favor with Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and his team, which included a timely meeting with the state’s top operating officer, Brian Bobek.
Bobek encouraged Daughtery to launch a prison outreach, in which inmates would be drawn out of their cells.
The outreach was held at John H. Lilley Prison in Boley, Oklahoma late in June.
Daugherty was only expecting 100 inmates to show up. He was overwhelmed when 7 times that number attended.
Despite his doubts, approximately 751 inmates came out and heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ being preached. That’s almost the entire inmate population of the prison. 400 of those attending accepting Christ.