Chaplain Curtis Browder Prison Ministry provides prison revivals in 9 correctional facilities throughout the state of Alabama beginning in March ending in September of each year. CCBMprovide barbecue’s dinner that serves each inmate bbq chicken, with two sides and a roll. After each meal Chaplain Browder and his team ministers the word of God through biblical scriptures.

 Chaplain Curtis Browder’s goal is simple. Feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, take a stranger in, clothe the naked and visit those in prison. The Great Commission found in Matthew 25:35-36.

In 1991 Chaplain Browder (Chap), established Faith Crusades Ministries through a street project called ”Stop the Violence.” A team of ministers took on the streets at midnight attacking crack and other substances in infiltrating the streets of Montgomery. As Alabama’s first black prison Chaplain he understands the need for after care facilities for ex-ofenders and the importance of meeting the needs of the whole man.

Nearly 20 years later , Faith Crusades/Montgomery Rescue Mission serves the homeless, battered women, substance abusers, at risk youth and the working poor. Serving over 200 meals daily. The mission’s prison team under Chaplain Browder’s direction conducts prison revivals every summer ministering to over 9,000 inmates in the prison system. The mission also sponsors monthly food distrubtions serving over 2,000 people. in Montgomery County, Chilton County and surrounding areas.

Today, Chaplain Browder obtained 14 trailers homes from FEMA that he is converting into housing for those in need. Some of the people he works with have been in prison or on the streets for a long time. ”At the Montgomery Rescue Mission/Faith Crusades we have a dinner table and kitchen where they can make their own breakfast. A lot of people we deal with are not used to having a home environment and we want to try to bring them back to family.

“Browder Ministries continue to have a positive effect in assisting with the culture change of the facility. The violence level is down and there is a certain peace and calm that has developed in the institution.”

 

Grantt Culliver, Warden III

W.C. Holman Correctional Facility

Alabama Department of Corrections