Learn how YOU can help prisoners find transformation out of their sins.


welcome to ARM Prison Outreach

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our mission Helping turn CHAINS to CHANGE through Jesus.

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who we are

Discover our story and the people behind driving our mission forward. Learn how a shared vision is impacting lives across Joplin, MO, and beyond.

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Get involved

Your support equips inmates with the truth of God’s Word and gives them a second chance. Read more about how to sponsor a Bible or Bible Study, donate a baptistry and more.

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GIVE BACK

Every gift makes a difference! Visit our Donate page to explore how you can help bring hope, redemption, and God’s Word to those behind bars.

From prison to purpose

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From prison to purpose: One Mans redemption – april 2025
Our history

Impact. inspire & brag on god.

Since 1973, ARM Prison Outreach exists, to take the gospel of Jesus behind prison bars, so prisoners find transformation out of their sins. Believing every person is created in the image of God, that image is not erased because a crime was committed. The marred image of God in prisoners waits to hear of a God with a love strong enough to give freedom to them.

They wait to hear about a Savior with the power and the truth that can restore and repurpose lives burdened with guilt and shame from their past. Each year, people like you help ARM proclaim Jesus to prisoners. Through the partnership of ARM, Prison Outreach, and our generous ministry partners, We are growing the church behind prison bars.

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“The inmate accepted the Bible with a quiet "thank you." I didn't think much of it then, but a few days later, I saw him again, and something had changed. There was a remarkable peace about him—an undeniable peace.

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