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.
Read MoreNews 5 Anchor and Multimedia Journalist Leon Bibb interviewed True Freedom’s Executive Director, Mike Swiger, for his Sunday show “Kaleidoscope.”
Read MoreA 17-year-old boy survived getting shot seven times in a shoot-out with a rival gang. Two bullets could not be removed from his body. The doctor called him a miracle. During his stay at the Juvenile Justice Center (his eighth time in jail since he was 12 years old)…
Read MoreNews 5 Anchor Leon Bibb interviews Executive Director of True Freedom Ministries Mike Swiger along with Dennis Hagood who utilized the services provided by the organization discuss the organization's purpose, services provided and who is eligible for assistance.
Read MoreAt the Northern Ohio Golf Charities appreciation party on Sunday, Michael Swiger, Executive Director of True Freedom Ministries, explained how NOGCF has helped his ministry and how much they mean to all of the charities who receive grants.
Read MoreTrue Freedom Ministries Partner with The Dalton Foundation to teach inmates at the Grafton Reintegration Center important and essential tools like Office and Excel in the Microsoft Office Certification Program.
Read MoreOn April 21st, Mike Swiger had the privilege of delivering the final address at the Northeast Ohio Reentry Summit held at the Cleveland Convention Center, receiving a standing ovation. Over 250 potential employers, city and county officials, and…
Read MoreIn 2016 the administration at Grafton Correctional asked True Freedom to conduct character development classes to the men at the Grafton Reintegration Center (GRC). On April 24th, 2017, a group of forty men began an intensive forty-five-week program based on the book of Proverbs.
Read MoreAlpha 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.
Read MoreA young man cried during a counseling session because he wanted to be at home with his family. In jail for the first time for carrying a gun at 16 years old, he said he needed a gun because the streets of Cleveland weren’t safe. I asked him what time he got home at night. He said at 1 am. I told him…
Read MoreFive years ago, according to God’s sovereign purpose, True Freedom Ministries launched for the glory of His Great Name. He has shown Himself so abundantly faithful in every step of this journey. Only by His power have we been able to serve “the least of these” according Matthew 25:35-40.
Read MoreOn April 21st, Mike Swiger had the privilege of delivering the final address at the Northeast Ohio Reentry Summit that was held at the convention center. Over 200 business leaders and correction professionals were in attendance. God continues to bless and open doors for True Freedom Ministries.
Read MoreTrue Freedom’s Executive Director, Michael Swiger, was asked to participate in the very first broadcast of a new daily radio program featured on 1220AM entitled Living the Word. Swiger, along with three other ministry leaders from across Northeast Ohio, discussed the controversial topic of: Has the Church in America lost the Truth?
Read MoreTrue Freedom Ministries gratefully thanks the Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation for its $10,000 grant, which enabled us to renovate the restrooms in our Cypress Avenue Building, making them handicapped accessible.
Read MoreLiving 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.
Read MoreOn Easter Sunday, Pastor Mark Stradiot was able to visit all five houses in the Juvenile Justice Center. In each house, there are three separate pods. For the first time, Pastor Mark went in, personally, to each of the 15 separate pods (in one day!) with the message of the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Read MoreGod continues to use True Freedom Ministries to disciple and give hope to those incarcerated. Below is a testimony from an inmate we serve: “I thank God for this Alpha course cause it’s letting me know there’s still hope for me regardless of my stained past. No one told me at the age of 16 the streets would mess my life up…
Read MoreTy, a sixteen-year-old drug dealer, has been in jail three different times since the age of fourteen for carrying a gun. Just before his third arrest, he was involved in a shootout on the streets of Cleveland, being hit three times in his right leg and foot.
Read MoreRecording artist Jul BIG Green (aka Julien Huntley) went into the Juvenile Justice Center today with Pastor Mark Stradiot of True Freedom Ministries.
Read MoreReading 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.
Read MoreTrue Freedom Ministries is an evangelical, non-profit organization dedicated to reaching people locked in jails and prisons, the homeless, and those trapped in addiction across Ohio with the message of the true freedom found only in Jesus Christ.
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