I saw her face at the door of the pod. She was asking the officer if she could meet with me privately. She introduced herself and explained that this was her seventh time at the Juvenile Justice Center. I asked her age, thinking she was 16. But she was 13.

Would you prayerfully consider making a monthly or one-time gift to support this amazing work that was commissioned by Jesus Himself (Mathew 25:36)?

Thank you, True Freedom Ministries, for your love, support, and kindness. I have learned so much about God, myself, and what it means to live free in Christ. I have learned…

There was a period of my life when I made one bad choice after another. I was completely lost, walking a path to a slow death, and I did not care. Ultimately, my chaos spilled over, costing…

Is there life after being in prison? Mike Swiger, Executive Director of True Freedom Ministries, and Frank Sinito, CEO of the Millennia Companies discuss re-entry programs, helping inmates find jobs and ultimately to see unbelieving inmates become committed followers of Jesus Christ.

True Freedom Enterprise is dedicated to prisoner workforce empowerment and transitional housing. Its program serves in specializing in Pre-Release prisoner workforce readiness training, Pre-Release Work Release Programming…

Mike Swiger runs True Freedom Enterprises. His goal is to find employment for ex-offenders after they’ve served their time. He said some employers are afraid to hire someone who has a troubled past. 

God is truly blessing True Freedom Enterprises. On March 1st, we officially launched this new initiative at the Northeast Reintegration Center, a female prison located on East 30th in Cleveland.

Thank you so much for your support this year. Your partnership is vital to the rapid growth of True Freedom. Below are a few highlights through the end of October 2017!

With great anticipation and the resounding clapping of hands, inmates at Northeast Reintegration Center warmly greet TF Women’s Chaplain, Rae Borders, facilitator of the ALPHA course. Why such a sense of expectation? They have come to learn of Jesus, light of the world…

True Freedom was one of only two organizations selected by the Ohio Department of Corrections to meet with Ohio Attorney General and candidate for governor, Mike DeWine, during a recent visit to Cleveland. ODRC featured True Freedom for its leadership, impact, and innovation re-entry programming.

Executive Director Mike Swiger presenting to Attorney General Mike DeWine on our pre-release, pre-employment program that we hope to launch soon. This program will help with unemployment for those formerly incarcerated as well as reduce recidivism. Mike DeWine was very engaged and supportive of this initiative.

Alpha For Prisons, a sister organization to Alpha International, provides prison-related resources, including the well-known Alpha course, to groups who minister inside of jails and prisons all across the country. 

Living the Word interviewed Executive Director Mike Swiger this week. The discussion revolved around the heroin epidemic, gangs in prisons, the various outreaches of True Freedom Ministries, and our Golf outing at Chagrin Valley Country Club on July 17, 2017. The radio interview will air next Monday and Tuesday. We praise the Lord for giving True Freedom this opportunity.

Reading is a gift that many take for granted. Unfortunately, many of the individuals we work with were never given this gift. God is using one volunteer, Ellen Naylor, to make a difference by teaching literacy at True Freedom.

What a privilege to be able to resource True Freedom Prison Ministries with 5 of the new Alpha Film Series DVD’s to take into prisons all over NE Ohio. Thanks to Frank Scalish, Mike Swiger, Gary Koly and ALL the other people involved with True Freedom for all you do to reach those who Jesus said: “as you do to them—you do to me…”

True Freedom Prison Ministry follows the model Jesus Christ laid out for the disciples in the books of Acts to spread the Gospel in ever-growing concentric circles from their hub in Jerusalem, we seek to reach those first in Cleveland, then to Northeast Ohio, and then to the uttermost parts of the state of Ohio.

True Freedom’s Gary Koly and Michael Swiger were featured speakers at the Nation’s largest Correctional Summit held at the Billy Graham Institute at Wheaton College in late May.

The Alpha Course invited True Freedom Ministries to partner with them in bringing solid biblical teaching to Northeast Ohio to their Women's Prison Ministry.

In August 2013 True Freedom partnered with Youth for Christ Director of Juvenile Justice, Pegi Powe, to launch a quarterly teaching series in the Northeast Pre-Release Center in Cleveland.