Dear Friends,
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Chuck Colson — our friend, founder, and brother in Christ — passed away at 3:12 PM today. Though we mourn the loss of a great leader, we rejoice knowing God has welcomed his humble and faithful servant home. When Chuck Colson left prison, he promised to remember the men who remained behind bars. “I will never forget you guys!” he told them.
And for 36 years, Chuck faithfully kept that promise. In 1976, he founded Prison Fellowship, a ministry dedicated to living out Jesus’ command to remember the incarcerated and share the transformational love of Jesus Christ with them and their families.
“I could never, ever have left prison and accomplished what has been accomplished but for God doing it through me,” Chuck once said.
Chuck also spoke directly into our culture through BreakPoint Radio, a program he started in 1991 and has been the voice of nearly every day for the past twenty plus years. His vision to lead the culture into a Christian Worldview led to the Centurions Program in 2004 and the founding of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview in 2010.
Please continue to pray for the entire Colson family. While we all deeply feel this loss, we take heart knowing God has welcomed Chuck into paradise with a “well done, good and faithful servant!”
Together, let’s celebrate the life of Chuck Colson — a man transformed by grace, dedicated to serving our Savior, and now living in eternal glory with the Lord.
Blessings,
Jim Liske
Chief Executive Officer
Chuck’s life stands as a testimony to God’s power to forgive, redeem, and transform us all. Would you like to honor the legacy of Chuck Colson? Share with us what his life and his ministry have meant to you.
“It’s deeply humbling to see so many lives that have been transformed through the grace of God and this ministry. That’s the greatest reward I will ever have,” Chuck once shared.
Now we faithfully continue carrying on the work that Chuck so tirelessly devoted himself to — spreading the Gospel to least of these behind prison walls. Tell us how he inspired you to serve the least, the lost, and the lonely.
Dear Friends,
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Chuck Colson — our friend, founder, and brother in Christ — passed away at 3:12 PM today. Though we mourn the loss of a great leader, we rejoice knowing God has welcomed his humble and faithful servant home. When Chuck Colson left prison, he promised to remember the men who remained behind bars. “I will never forget you guys!” he told them.
