Equip the Harvest Force Inside America's Prisons
We are uploading the Four Fields training on electronic tablets for over 1 million inmates nationwide. We can track their progress at the unit level all over the country. Now we are mobilizing Free World NPL Prison Coaches to go where the fire is already burning and help it spread.
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Buena Park, CA · In Person
📅 Saturday, August 29, 2026
🕘 9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon Pacific
Buena Park, CA · In Person
📅 Sunday, August 30, 2026
🕒 6:00 – 8:00 PM Pacific
What God Is Doing
Ten years ago, a small effort to train inmate believers with simple biblical tools began inside the Texas prison system. Today, entire prison cultures are being transformed by the power of the Gospel.
Once one of the most dangerous maximum-security prisons in the country — where officers feared for their lives and inmates begged not to be transferred — God began to move. Within two years, more than 1,000 men were baptized and over 300 inmate-led churches were meeting weekly in nearly every living area of the prison.
A baptism inside a Texas prison unit
"You hear the Gospel 24 hours a day. My officers are safe. This place has been transformed." — The Warden, Coffield Unit, Texas
About four years ago, two trained inmate believers began sharing the Gospel on Texas Death Row. Today, six inmate-led churches meet daily. Over 150 of the roughly 200 men on Death Row are Spirit-filled believers. Every morning at 5:00 a.m., the sound of Amazing Grace echoes through the chambers. Of the last 30 men executed, 25 died as Spirit-filled disciple makers who had come to know Christ.
Inmates gathered for discipleship inside a Texas prison
In another Texas prison, 100 men in solitary confinement were baptized in just nine months. One man — who spent 18 years in solitary, describing it as "darkness inside of darkness" — is now thriving in Christ and helping lead a residential training center inside the prison, despite a life sentence.
One moment captured the power of the Gospel as clearly as anything: an Aryan Nation white supremacist, his body covered with tattoos of racial hatred, stepped into the water. The man baptizing him was a Black brother who had led him to Christ. When he came up out of the water, the two embraced. It was a living picture of the ministry of reconciliation.
"The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
— Luke 10:2
The Strategy
This isn't a program delivered from the outside. It's a Spirit-empowered movement led from within — with Free World NPL Prison Coaches serving as catalysts, not controllers. The New Testament pattern: insiders lead, outsiders equip.
Complete the NPL 4-Fields Academy on prison tablets. Make disciples, start house churches, and multiply leaders across their unit — and carry the movement with them when they transfer or are released.
Adopt a specific prison unit. Train in proven CPM methodology. Visit, write letters, and coach inmate leaders — without controlling or replacing them. You fuel the fire; they spread it.
The NPL 4-Fields Digital Academy is now being uploaded to prison tablets nationwide through the Edovo platform — delivering disciple-making training to over 1 million incarcerated men and women in English and Spanish. Free World NPL Prison Coaches are the human bridge that turns digital training into physical movements.
Your Role
Becoming a Free World NPL Prison Coach is a real commitment — not a program you sign up for and forget. Here is exactly what it looks like.
An inmate leading a Discovery Bible Study
Fill out the form below to register as a Free World NPL Prison Coach. That's your first step into the movement.
You'll be notified of free online training covering best practices for engaging prison units and coaching inmate leaders. Learn what works before you step inside.
Based on your location, we'll connect you to prison units that have inmates already completing the 4-Fields online training and asking for coaches. You go where the fire is burning.
Engage the already-prepared inmates inside. Cast vision for a No Place Left movement in their unit, train them in what they need, and coach them to launch and multiply house churches from within.
Become part of an ongoing community of Free-World NPL leaders from across America — sharing what's working, learning from each other, and together impacting America's prisons with Church Planting Movements.
Regional Event · West Coast
Workshop & Vision Dinner · Buena Park, CA
Date & Time
Saturday, August 29, 2026
9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon Pacific
A practical workshop featuring former inmate disciple-making leaders who have multiplied churches inside prison. Discover the remarkable work of God inside America's prisons — best practices and tools to coach and develop multiplying disciple-making church planting movements inside prison walls.
Date & Time
Sunday, August 30, 2026
6:00 – 8:00 PM Pacific
God is already at work in surprising ways on the West Coast. Come hear stories of inmate-led disciple-making and church planting, what has already happened in Texas, and why we believe the potential across the West Coast is massive.
Featuring: Don Waybright, Brandon Light, Joe Kimmell & Jeff Timblin
Scan to RSVP for the Sunday dinner. Please only RSVP if you're sure you're coming, so we can prepare enough food.
Community of Practice
Connect with Free World NPL Prison Coaches from across America. Join our nationwide quarterly Zoom calls to share best practices, resources, and stories of what God is doing inside prisons — building a learning community of practice around Church Planting Movements.
Get Involved
Fill out the form below and someone from the NPL Prisons team will reach out with next steps — including how to get trained and which units need practitioners near you.
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