Thousands of families are directly affected each year by having one of their loved ones in a prison or jail. Most of these families are broken and filled with loneliness, anxiety, and feelings of rejection. Few of these families receive adequate attention from the church. God told Abraham that through him, "all the families of the earth shall be blessed." As spiritual heirs of Abraham, we too can bless families. This training material explores ways you and your church can be involved in ministering to the families of inmates. The Bible admonishes us “to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction” - James 1:27 (KJV). Although children of prisoners aren’t exactly fatherless, and wives aren’t widows, their situations are very similar. The success of Family Ministry volunteers is determined by the emphasis placed by those volunteers going inside on the importance of this resource. Those going inside need to make the inmates aware of our willingness to have members of our ministry to visit their loved ones. Our family ministry team will be there to encourage, to show God’s love and to facilitate support mechanisms to address their psychological, financial, and spiritual needs. We will have inmates that express interest in these types of visits fill out our visitation request forms that give us their written permission to contact their family members. These visits will provide inspiration to the inmates, knowing that the same love being shown to them is also being shown to their family members in their absence. Our vision at PCPM is that, after facilitating with the physical needs of the families referred to us by the inmates, we can show the family that Jesus loves them with an immeasurable and everlasting love. We pray that the Holy Spirit will then transform their characters at the same time the inmate’s character is being transformed so that both can live in supportive harmony with one another upon the inmate’s release. We have confidence that GOD IS ABLE!! (Rom. 4:21 “And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.”)