Frank Ortega teaching a group of young men seated under a pavilion in a prison yard

2026 — 2027

Depth, not width.

The vision was never how many prisons we could get into. It was how deep we would go with the one door God opened.

“We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too.”
1 Thessalonians 2:8, NLT

01 — What 2026 was

Not more doors. This door.

Jesus did not say go and make converts. He said go and make disciples. You do not make a disciple by preaching and rolling out. You make a disciple the way Paul did — by loving people enough to share the gospel, and loving them enough to share your own life.

That was the commitment for 2026. If the door that opened was Suwannee Correctional Institution, then Suwannee is where we stay. Not a tour. A life.

It has looked like a call twice a week, anywhere from ninety minutes to three hours, and flying in every month. Josh Sullivan, a ministry partner who lives in Florida, has carried the in-person week with us. One Road to Damascus class at a time. Fifteen or sixteen men. There is a waiting line. We still will not take fifty at once. You can share the gospel with fifty. You cannot share your life with fifty. Jesus spent His life with twelve.

The men in this class are not general population. They are in close management — very limited contact with other people. That is the ground we chose to go deep on.

The Road to Damascus class gathered in the chapel with the MOG Ministries team
One class. Shared life. Suwannee CI.

02 — What God has done

The record is on the site. Not in a highlight reel.

We did not build 2026 around posts. We built it around presence. God has honored that with baptisms, with men discipled week after week, with a class that became family, and with the State of Florida moving a man across the system to sit in Road to Damascus.

If you want to see it, look here — not at a social feed.

The first graduating class of the Road to Damascus Program at Suwannee Correctional Institution, holding certificates with ministry partners and facility staff
The first graduating class. Road to Damascus. Suwannee Correctional Institution.

03 — What 2027 adds

Same life. A much wider door.

We are not aiming at five prisons, or ten, or fifteen. We are going harder at the door already open, and at the men who walk out of the class still hungry to stay in relationship.

In 2027 we are publishing on the Pando app — the faith-based app on the tablets inmates are given. Not only teachings. Life. A golf course. A river. A workout. A trip. Ordinary hours, full of Scripture, conversation, and the kind of presence a podcast camera cannot fake. This content is for the men. It is not a social media push.

671,071 Inmate tablets already have the Pando app

That figure is published by God Behind Bars, the ministry that runs Pando. It is tablets, not a headcount of men MOG has reached. Tablets also change hands. The point is the size of the platform we are stepping onto.

One class at a time

Road to Damascus stays small on purpose. The masses get reached when a few men are actually discipled, not when a calendar fills up with facilities.

Write them after they transfer

Like Paul kept writing the churches. We are seeking an approved messaging channel so graduates are not cut off when they move. It is not open yet. When it is, it will run under clear guidelines, and the ministry will cover the cost. We will not risk our volunteer standing in Florida.

Someone local remains

Paul stayed until someone could steward the church, then he was sent on. We believe Josh Sullivan is that person at Suwannee, for the day God opens the next door.

For the men, not the feed

If you can film and edit, we need you.

Not for social media. For tablets inside the walls — fast, watchable, and full of faith. Write us if that is the work you can carry.