Better Homes and Garden.Outdoor Life. Car and Driver.
Prison Living Magazine.
You can find a magazine that caters to just about anything--including life behind bars. And it was a magazine with cell block circulation that really launched Roger Munchian's prison ministry.
Munchian's s vision for reaching the lost behind bars began on an Arizona Department of Corrections medium security yard called Stiner. Medium Security in classification--maximum security in potential perils--Stiner Yard is also known as "Stick 'em Stiner" by its residents.
God gave him the vision on Stiner Yard--and set his feet in motion two year's later when he finally walked back out through the prison gates a free man. Munchian got badged for ADOC visitation, and for a short period of time, was able to go back to Stick 'em Stiner and minister--this time without wearing the ADOC orange peals. However, it was soon discovered that Munchian's checkered past disqualified him from having visitation rights inside the ADOC system. Munchian resorted to starting his prison ministry on a smaller scale--doing one-on-one mentoring in the Maricopa County jails.
Doing one-on-one ministry was slow going at first. New mentees came to him through word-of-mouth as his reputation circulated throughout the jails. However, when his testimony and story of God's redemption was published in Prison Living Magazine, the hunger for the hope and inspiration of Munchian's story flourished. The Rescued Not Arrested ministry is now one of the largest badged volunteer organizations in the Maricopa County jail system and continues to be the largest provider of Bibles to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
Click here to read the magazine article that helped launch the ministry--and was the foundational inspiration for the recently published book Rescued Not Arrested.
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