Contact: Dr. David Schuringa, President, Crossroad Bible Institute, 800-668-2450, David@cbi.fm
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 6 /Christian Newswire/ -- Crossroad Bible Institute, a non-profit prison ministry that focuses on biblically based reentry education for those behind bars worldwide, has opened a new Distribution Center in Quito, Ecuador.
This is the second Distribution Center in South America; the first is located in Columbia. In addition, there are DCs established in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Ghana and the U.S. Angel Aguirre Villamar will be the director of the Distribution Center in Ecuador.
DC Director Aguirre has previously served time behind bars for drug trafficking and is aware of the overwhelming conditions that exist within Ecuadorian prisons. Many prisoners spend years in pretrial detention and the overcrowding that exists has led to unhealthy conditions and a lack of beds for those in the prisons.
For Aguirre, however, the time served in prison changed his life. While there, he became a Christian and, by the time he was released, Christ had prepared him to minister to those still behind bars.
During the 20 years since his release, Aguirre has been a missionary to many of the prisons in Ecuador. This extensive background in prison ministry will now be used to establish CBI Ecuador.
Currently, the focus of CBI Ecuador is Penal Garcia Moreno, a prison located in Quito. Aguirre has trained volunteers to correct the biblical lessons and write letters of encouragement to the 34 students already enrolled in the program. In addition to hand delivering the lessons, Aguirre and his team of volunteers are working to gather Spanish Bibles for these students.
After the program is fully established at this prison, Aguirre has plans to expand CBI's program to the other prisons in Ecuador.
As with other international distribution centers, CBI headquarters will assure the quality of the program by providing instructor support, maintaining records of the students enrolled with CBI Ecuador and providing the lessons and training manuals in Spanish.
If you know of someone who would benefit from the programs or would like more information, visit CBI's website for enrollment forms and sample lessons. CBI's programs are provided at no cost to prisoners and families.
