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Who Cares??? Scott Mann on the Miracles of Prison Ministry and Lives Transformed Behind Bars
About this episode
Pastor Scott Mann of New Vision Ministries joins Philip Cameron to share nearly four decades of frontline prison and jail ministry — and a bold challenge to every church that isn't doing it. Scott opens with the story of how it all began: two friends walking him through housing projects, earning the nickname "Oreo Cookie," before God opened a jail door for him without paperwork or orientation. "I feel the presence of God more in my camp a lot of times than I do in church," Scott says — and once you hear his stories, it's hard to argue. Drawing on Matthew 25:31–46, Scott makes a pointed case that visiting prisoners isn't optional for believers. He recounts confronting a large, debt-free church that had no outreach program — and watching it become the prison ministry's second-largest financial supporter within weeks. He also breaks down the practical difference between jail ministry and prison ministry, explains North Carolina's PREA training process, and describes the seven weekly services his team runs at their facility — with more volunteers than inmates. Scott's book "Who Cares?" — available on Amazon and now digitally on every North Carolina inmate tablet — grew from an audible word from God during a deer hunt. For more, visit newvisionnc.org.
Part of our Missions collection of conversations.
Quotes worth sharing
“I would get tired and I would say, oh, dad. And he would say, Philip Cameron, you are not overworked. You are under motivated. And the problem with the church today isn't that we're overworked, we are just under motivated. My dad would say to me, if a lion came in that door just now, how tired would you be? And I would say, I wouldn't be tired at all. And he says, well, that's the proof.”
“I was deer hunting and I was praying and talking to the Lord, and I heard an audible voice say, who cares? And I look and I'm like, Lord, you know I care. I'm for the underdog. I've always been for the underdog. He said, no, Who Cares is gonna be the name of your book.”
“I feel the presence of God more in my camp a lot of times than I do in church. Those guys are freer than the people in the church. When I take people in there that have never been, it blows their mind how the power of God is moving and these guys are real.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Scott Mann of New Vision Ministries (newvisionnc.org) shares nearly 40 years of prison and jail ministry experience, anchored in Matthew 25:31–46. He explains the practical difference between jail ministry (short-term, revolving) and prison ministry (relationship-based), outlines North Carolina's PREA volunteer training process, and describes seven weekly services at his facility — which draws more volunteers than its 235 inmates. Scott recounts challenging a church with no outreach program and watching it become his ministry's second-largest supporter. He also discusses his book "Who Cares?" — now available on every North Carolina inmate tablet — which began with an audible word from God during a deer hunt.
- Forty Years of Prison Ministry Beginnings
- Matthew 25 and the Church's Obligation
- Confronting a Church With No Outreach
- How to Start Jail or Prison Ministry
- Seven Weekly Services and PREA Training
- The Who Cares Book and Inmate Tablets
- Experiencing God's Power Behind Bars
Scripture in this episode
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith Today. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am so glad you're with us today. We've got a great guest, a man who is doing something for the Kingdom of God. Scott Mann is with me and he's got a tremendous witness and testimony, and I feel a call to action.
Philip:And I believe that if you're looking to do something, I believe today God will show you and help you and let you see the possibilities that you can do. Listen, everybody has a responsibility in the body of Christ today. All of us have got something to do.
Philip:One thing I've got no time for, it drives me absolutely crazy, is when I hear Christians saying, oh, I'm bored. Well, I'm not bored. I got more stuff on my plate than I could ever eat in a million years. And when I hear people — when I came to America first with my dad, I was only a young boy, I was 13. And then we traveled in a Ford LTD station wagon all over America, and we would sing and preach in our church and then sell books and tapes and then put them back in the car and drive that night and get to the next place.
Philip:And we were doing this 10 months a year. And I would get tired and I would say, oh, dad. And he would say, Philip Cameron, you are not overworked. You are under motivated. And the problem with the church today isn't that we're overworked, we are just under motivated. My dad would say to me, if a lion came in that door just now, how tired would you be? And I would say, I wouldn't be tired at all. And he says, well, that's the proof. And most of the church does nothing for the kingdom of God.
Philip:We think that going to church on Sunday morning is doing our duty. And that's not what the kingdom of God is all about. There's no special man, there's no special preachers. God calls all of us to do something. And I hope today God uses this program to challenge you and give you a vision of purpose to go into all the world and preach the gospel. And I believe Scott Mann is gonna help us see that today.
Philip:I'm excited. Help me if you would share the program, like the show. And if you're watching this today, this is kind of a pre-show of the actual show, and this gets kind of gathering social media together. You're watching us on social media right now. If you could share this with your friends, if you hit that bell, it'll remind you when we are on the air, and you can come and meet some of my great friends that you'll love and be blessed by meeting them, enriched in your life.
Philip:Daily Faith is here to affirm your daily walk with the Lord, to undergird you and strengthen you, and make you realize that yes, what I'm believing is right, what I'm seeing is right. We are living — you know this — we are living in perilous times. We've never had a world like we're living in just now. I mean, we are a hair's breadth away. If Iran had the facility to arm a bomb, it would be off today with a nuclear device. I promise you, I can promise you that. And we are living that close to annihilation in this world.
Philip:And it's time we realize that and do something about it. Don't sit and curse the darkness. Don't talk about all the bad things that's going on in the world. Fix something. If all the church were to go and fix one problem, we would discover our world is a whole lot better than it is right now. And I am motivated to see the world change for the Lord Jesus. And I hope you are too. Listen, let's get to the show. We are delighted to have you with us. Welcome to Daily Faith.
Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am absolutely delighted to have you with us. We've got a great program today. I believe that God wants to motivate us like never before. You see, as you see the day approaching, the Bible talks about what we are looking for. Jesus isn't gonna leave the church blind. I know he is coming as a thief in the night, but he also says, look at the seasons, look at the times. And if you look around you, we are living in the most sophisticatedly evil world we've ever lived in.
Philip:In the old days, it was just throwing stones at each other and hitting each other over the head with a bat. But today, the evil is sophisticated electronically. People can monitor your life and destroy you without leaving their office, without leaving their computer key. We have nations — we're watching it just now in Iran — we have nations that are literally striving, desperately trying to get a bomb that will destroy God's people.
Philip:I don't care whether you like Israel or not, you've gotta love it because the Bible says, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. And if you love Israel, I'll bless you. If you hate Israel, I'll curse you. That's God's law. You don't fight with it. It's not up for referendum. That's the facts. And we are living in a world right now — all of Great Britain used to be pro-Israel, and now they hate Israel. And because of what's going on in Gaza, we are living in not just an evil world, it's a sophisticated evil world that you're watching when you go on Facebook.
Philip:You can watch images of Trump and other characters that aren't even real. You can't even tell the difference anymore. That's how evil evil has become and how sophisticated it has become. And God is looking for the church that will stand up in the most incredible days of history and say, I choose to be used of God in this day. And I hope that you are. I hope that you are motivated today to see the fields that are white unto harvest, and the laborers are still few.
Philip:My son Andrew, who normally helps me produce this program — excuse me — he is in Moldova right now. He was in Ukraine yesterday visiting our home for girls in Odessa. And with him are my two grandkids, my eldest two grandkids, Allie and Kara. And they're staying over for the whole summer and they're working at our kids' home. For those that don't know, we have homes in Moldova. In Moldova, trafficking is a horrendous need.
Philip:And we've got this amazing place called Vatra Village, which is a village of homes right on the largest lake in the country. And girls that would be trafficked and are at risk of being trafficked — we find them and tell them, if you're born, God has a plan, and they come. Every girl you're looking at right now is worth $300,000 a year to the trafficker. They use them 30 to 50 times a day. And we take them into our homes, put them back in school, tell them that God has a purpose for their life. And these kids are turning into missionaries.
Philip:It's the most — I've never seen anything like it in my life. And most recently a young girl was offered to come to our place, came from a horrendous situation. But the problem with her was she was under 16 and we could only have them 16 and older in Vatra Village. But we took the risk of being found out by the authorities to protect this girl because of the horrible world she was living in. And we took her to us and she was great. She was healing and participating in all the things that were going on in Vatra Village.
Philip:And then we were made to put her back because they found out that we had taken her in underage, and they put her back to our village. And within 10 days, she was gang raped, lost her mind. And it has so hurt us as a ministry, hurt us as a family, because we are a family. And her name's Maria. Pray for her. And what we did is we immediately went out and started looking for a place that we could take little kids between the age of four and 16, which would have saved Maria.
Philip:And so my son yesterday — we found a place, we've signed the contracts, we're in the process of paying for it. And my son Andrew took my two granddaughters along with Nadia. Nadia is our head girl in Moldova. She runs the ministry. We found her 16 years ago, lost in an orphanage with no hope. And this woman has become just the most amazing woman I've ever met. God is using her. And they went to see — they went to see rather, Promise Land, which is the new homes we're looking at.
Philip:And they sent me this video. I got it last night. And you're gonna see it this morning. Watch this.
Andrew:Hey, this is Andrew from the Orphan's Hands. Right now I am standing in our newest project that we're believing God for, Promise House. And Promise House will help kids ages four to 16. And our hope is that we can save all kids that don't have a place to go, a place of safety. And also when they come here, they'll learn about the love of Jesus through family. Our kids from Vatra will be able to come on weekends and pour into them and hang out with them and basically become big brothers and big sisters to these younger kids as well.
Andrew:We walked around the property and looked at the area that we're gonna make a camp. And so our kids from Vatra will host summer camps and impact kids all throughout this region. We learned recently, Nadia just had a meeting with Child Protection Services and there's over 70 villages tied to this city that need help. They don't have a great assistance program for young children. And so Promise House will become a key part and an impact point to help kids.
Andrew:So we ask you to pray for us. It's a big challenge, something that we've prayed about. God led us to this property. There's two homes that are gonna help over 50 kids. We're asking you to pray for what we're doing here. And hopefully, you know, one day you'll be able to stand here and see the kids and the lives that your giving has impacted. So we thank you very much for what you're doing on a continual basis and supporting this ministry. God bless you.
Philip:That's them a long way away on the other side of the world. And it's amazing to have my grandkids there with him. And I'm watching it and being part of the mission outreach of this ministry. It just blows my mind that my grandkids are now going there and being part of it. That new place — we can't open it until we get 300 people per house giving a dollar a day.
Philip:That's a financial commitment we've gotta make. We've gotta find 300 people giving. One house is completely finished. We can move in right this minute. It's got terrible colors inside, we're gonna repaint it. But that first house is available right now. If I had the money to pay for the workers in that home, we would be able to open it right now and take little kids between the age of four and 16. I just need you to help me.
Philip:I believe that 300 people will watch this program. They could help and say, Philip, I can give a dollar a day. I can help that. I can make that possible. I can make space for a wee girl and a wee boy that are living with alcoholic parents, that are getting beaten on a daily basis, who are living in a hopeless world. And because of their poverty, they're at risk of being trafficked. And we just need you to pray with us.
Philip:To finish the second house is gonna cost about a hundred thousand dollars. We need someone to stand up and say, Philip, finish that second house. We can make a place of safety for these kids. I know you've got dreams in your life. I know you are asking God to give family salvation to your household, something in your life that's unattainable in the natural. Why don't you sow a seed and say, listen, Lord, I'm going to plant this gift towards these orphans, because the Bible says that he is the father of the fatherless.
Philip:These are his kids, these orphan kids that come into our world. I'm very aware that they belong to God, they are his children. And I just need to help you to help us open these homes. And if I were to take you there where Andrew just walked around and showed you, and I could say, we can open these two houses for a dollar a day, we can reach 50 kids for a dollar a day. There isn't one of you that could say, wow, I couldn't find a dollar, I couldn't make that happen.
Philip:If 300 people in America, out of 350 million people, if 300 people think that thought, we can open a house and rescue 25 kids per house. Let the Lord speak to your heart. Ask God if you'd be a part with us in this situation. And I promise you this, when you give to the poor, the Bible says you lend to the Lord. There's a special place in God's heart for those who see others in need and say, I'll be their help. And I want you to do that.
Philip:You can contact us. It's really simple. Just write Orphan's Hands or Daily Faith, PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. It's so simple. That's the address. And you can also call right now. The 800 number is 833-DAILY-FAITH. So simple, 833-DAILY-FAITH. And a real live pastor will take your phone call right now. Just say, I'm watching Philip right now on Daily Faith, and I wanna be one of the 300 people to open that new house.
Philip:And if you do so, I promise you the rewards of heaven will be your portion. Because he loves the orphan, he cares for the orphan. You can also go to dailyfaith.tv, which is like our home base. And that giving page there, just write, this is for the new houses. And your dollar-a-day gift will make a miracle happen. I mean this. Listen, we could open this thing this month if we had 300 people giving a dollar a day. Let the Lord speak to your heart. And if you obey him, I promise he will give it back to you, pressed down, shaken together, running over.
Philip:In this life, I am so delighted to have with me today a man of vision. I love men that have a bigger vision than themselves. And Scott and his wife Glenda head up a ministry called New Vision Ministries. And Scott, I'm delighted to have you back on Daily Faith today, my friend. God bless you.
Scott Mann:It's great to be here. Can't wait to get started.
Philip:Tell us what God's been doing with you. I'm really interested in what God's called you to do.
Scott Mann:Well, before I do that, I just want to thank you again. Every time I hear this story and watch your videos and stuff, it's inspiring what you're doing. It's just awesome ministry and I praise God and I pray God blesses you and I know he is gonna continue to give you what you need. You know, the last time I was on we were talking about how God had restored our church and we went from $3.2 million in debt to — actually April the 27th this year we paid off. So we're totally debt free and God's just blessed us that way. But what I wanted to talk to you today about was some prison ministry.
Forty Years of Prison Ministry Beginnings
Philip:Yes. I like your T-shirt.
Scott Mann:Yeah, yeah. Going all the world. This is our mission church. We go to Alaska, we go to Honduras. I don't know how many times I've been to Haiti. And so we do different things. We've been talking about coming to Moldova. Me and Anita have been talking about getting a trip with Andrew.
Philip:I wish you would.
Scott Mann:So we would love to do that. But the prison ministry — I started prison ministry probably 40 years ago, almost 40 years ago.
Philip:Wow.
Scott Mann:And the way I started it was two Black gentlemen that we would go into the projects with, and they called us Oreo Cookie because they would walk on the outside and I would walk in the middle, because people would try to start stuff with a white guy in this project area. And they called us Oreo Cookie. So that kind of started things and we started going to the jail. I would actually sing. I wasn't even preaching at the time. And God just blessed. And the very first time I ever went into a jail — which Matthew 25 tells us to go into the prisons, and we're supposed to feed the orphans and all these things that we're doing — Matthew 25:31 through 46 tells us to do those things.
Scott Mann:I got favor that night. I wasn't even supposed to be able to go in. I'd never been through orientation. I didn't have any paperwork or anything. The chaplain came out — which I'm a chaplain now, so I know that he was not supposed to do this — but he came out and God just gave me favor. And he said, young man, we need you, so we're gonna let you go in. And so that's how prison and jail ministry started for me.
Philip:That's amazing.
Scott Mann:And I've been doing it over 40 years. I'm a chaplain now at the local facility. We've got 235 inmates. We just gave out 235 Father's Day bags yesterday. And we have seven services a week at our prison, seven services a week at our prison.
Matthew 25 and the Church's Obligation
Philip:Wow.
Scott Mann:We have the second smallest prison in the state of North Carolina, and we have more volunteers than any prison in the state of North Carolina. We'll probably have 250 volunteers this year, more than we have inmates.
Philip:Oh my goodness. So God's moving. Well, the thing is, people don't understand — Jesus is describing the last days, the judgment day. This is not Paul's doctrine, this is not Peter's surmising. This is Jesus describing what's going to happen on the last day. And he says, many will come and they'll say, I've done this and I've done that. And he's gonna say, I was in prison and you didn't visit me. I was naked and you didn't clothe me. I was hungry and you didn't feed me. And they're gonna say, when? Of course we would've fed you if. And he says, no, when you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me. And he puts them out into the darkness.
Philip:And a lot of times — I'm gonna throw this out there and I hope I don't get you in trouble — but I was invited to a local church about three years ago, and I had a friend that was an elder in this church, a deacon in the church. And they had a big, beautiful facility, just spent $3 million on a family life center, whatever. And we were in that room and I looked at him that day and I said, what do you guys do for outreach, for missions or anything?
Confronting a Church With No Outreach
Philip:And he looked at me for a few minutes. He said, well, I think the ladies make quilts for the ladies in the nursing home. I said, but what do y'all do for missions? What do you do? None of y'all come to the prison that I know of. What do y'all do? He said, well, I'm ashamed to say, but I don't know of anything. So fast forward, a couple weeks later, I got invited to bring some of my inmates out to speak at their church, and they got to share their testimonies. And they told me, I'm gonna give you five minutes.
Philip:Gonna give me five minutes. Okay, gonna give me five minutes. As much as I like to talk. So when I stood up, the Lord had spoken to me, Matthew 25:31 through 46. And I asked them, I said, how many of you, if you knew Jesus was 25 miles away, you would go? And everybody in the church, big church, raised their hand. I said, how many of you if he's 10 miles away? All of them raised their hand. I said, what about a mile away? All of them raised their hand. I said, well, he's a mile away and I ain't seen none of you.
Philip:And boy, it got really quiet. And I said, let me tell you something. I'm the chaplain at the prison, and these guys are in the prison. You've heard their testimonies. I said, I don't see none of you come down here. You don't give us any support. And I said, what are you doing? I said, how does this fit in with your theology? When Jesus said, if you don't go do these things, you're not going to heaven. I said, most of you believe you're going to heaven and all this, but you don't do nothing for the Lord. So how are you going to heaven? He's not gonna say, well done, my good and faithful servant, to somebody who's not a good and faithful servant. Period.
Philip:And so the pastor got up, he looked like he had a deer in headlights. And he's a great man, by the way. We've made really good friends. I gave him one of my books and let him read it so he knows my heart. But he stood up and he apologized and he said, we're gonna fix this. And Philip, the next week, I took some guys out. See, we get to take inmates out every Sunday. We pick them up at the prison, we bring them to church, we take them out and we feed them because they missed their meal. We pay for their meal. And then we take them back to the prison, and these are guys that are on good behavior and they have to be case-plan compliant and all that stuff.
Philip:Well, that Sunday after that meeting, the guy looked at me and he said, we won't never have to worry about coming back here again. And I said, well, I don't care. I spoke the truth. I told what God told me to tell. The next week we went by that church — we'd taken the guys out to eat — we went by that same church and the parking lot was full. And I'm like, oh man. Somebody said, what are they doing there? I said, I don't know, but I bet you it's got something to do with food. I'm a smart aleck.
How to Start Jail or Prison Ministry
Philip:So about five o'clock, the gentleman called me and he said, Pastor Scott, have you heard from this church? And I said, no. I said, am I in trouble with them? And he said, no, they just had a meeting and they voted to give us $10,000.
Scott Mann:Hallelujah. Now that — they're the second largest supporter of the prison ministry. And they have men in their church that come with me and go in and do prison ministry now. Amazing. So sometimes, Philip, what we've gotta realize is people need to hear things like your podcast. They need to hear these things. And I wanna challenge anybody that's watching that's a pastor. I'm telling you right now, if you're a pastor and you're not doing prison ministry, you are not doing what God told you to do.
Philip:Let me — I beg you, go ahead.
Scott Mann:I'm sorry.
Philip:What came to my mind is, you know what, I think the problem is most folk don't know how to start. I just think that people are saying, if I knew — I don't know how to begin. How does someone watching us right now in Muncie, Indiana, how does someone say, okay, I want to do this? What do they do?
Scott Mann:This is what you do. I'm glad you asked that because I've been in it so long I don't think of those questions. So that's a great question. All you have to do, if you want to do jail ministry — which is different than prison ministry — you call the local jail.
Philip:What's the difference?
Scott Mann:Well, jail is where these guys get locked up. They might be there two days, they might be there one day, they might be there a week — short time, you know, until they're sentenced to prison. Once they go to prison, they're in prison.
Philip:I never knew that. I never knew that.
Scott Mann:Oh yeah. So jail ministry is totally different than prison ministry. Jail ministry, you go in and blow out. In prison ministry, you get to establish a relationship. And you get to see these guys on a weekly basis. I go up there four times a week. I just came from there a little while ago. I preach up there twice a month. And so I get to build a relationship with these guys.
Philip:And are there specific already established ways to go? Or can a church go and start its own outreach in a prison?
Scott Mann:This is what they need to do. If it's jail ministry, you call the local jail. You get in touch with the sheriff. Most of the time he will put you with his assistant, and then they'll do a vetting process. You'll send in your information, they do a background check, and then you try to establish a day or a night that you can go in. They'll tell you everything about it. It's really simple if you just go through the process.
Scott Mann:In prison ministry, in the state of North Carolina and most states, you have to go through what is called PREA, the Prison Rape Elimination Act. So they'll pick a date, like the 23rd of this month, and say, we're gonna have training at six o'clock. And anybody that wants to come into the prison, they'll come to this training, they'll fill out a background check, and then they go through the training, and then the chaplain will set them up with dates to come in and preach. Or like with me, if it's somebody new, I bring them in with me so they can get their feet wet and see if this is what they like to do.
Seven Weekly Services and PREA Training
Scott Mann:We have what we call Yoke Fellows on Monday night. That's where you go in one-on-one or with a table full of people. So if you don't preach, you can go in and do some teaching. Tuesday nights we have discipleship. That's where we teach either 40 Days of Purpose, the Driven Life. Somebody will be teaching a book study. Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday morning, Sunday night, we preach the gospel.
Scott Mann:I've got some great preachers, people that are ex-inmates that spent 20 years in for murder. I got a guy named Jamie Torres. I need to hook y'all up. Y'all need to do a podcast with this guy. He's powerful. But when I leave and go on mission trips or on family vacation, I have inmates that have been in prison that are out, that are doing great, that preach for my church services.
Philip:Amazing.
Scott Mann:See, I just think a lot of times people don't do anything because they don't know how to start. You wrote a book entitled Who Cares?
Philip:Tell us — put up the book on the screen so folk can see it. It's a great book that I need you to get. Tell us about the book.
The Who Cares Book and Inmate Tablets
Scott Mann:Okay. Let me tell you first, there's nothing wrong with people selling books and making money. That's awesome. If they wrote it and God gave it to them, that's good. I purposely don't take any money out of this. I'll sell the books and I take the money and I put it right back into the books. My books have been in Angola. My books have been in 52 prisons, 52 states. And I don't charge anybody a penny. And this is the kicker — in the state of North Carolina, well, probably every state, but in the state of North Carolina, every inmate has a tablet. They have a tablet that they can read books on. And it's just been approved to put my book on every single tablet.
Philip:Congratulations.
Scott Mann:Every inmate in the state of North Carolina will be able to look at my book free. So this is how it started. I was deer hunting and I was praying and talking to the Lord, and I heard an audible voice say, who cares? And I look and I'm like, Lord, you know I care. I'm for the underdog. I've always been for the underdog. He said, no, Who Cares is gonna be the name of your book.
Scott Mann:And so I ran up — I was crying. My wife thought something happened. I knocked on the door, she came to the door, she said, what's wrong? I couldn't talk. I was crying so hard. I said, the Lord told me to write a book. She said, I've been telling you to write a book for 20 years and you hadn't done it. So I wrote the book. It's 100% truth. And when I say that, the editor tried to edit some of my words. He's a very intelligent man. I'm more redneck, old school, didn't graduate from high school, and I wanted a redneck book. I didn't want an educated book.
Scott Mann:And so it's my words 100%. It is true stories, it is testimonies of God getting people out of prison, testimonies of people I've led to the Lord in prison. It's just some powerful stuff that God did through my life through jail and prison ministry.
Philip:Well, I want you to get that. But if you're watching just now, you can get the book on Amazon today. Look, amazon.com, and you can order the book, Scott Mann, Who Cares? That's how you get the book through Amazon. But I'd like you to help this ministry. The web address is newvisionNC.org, newvisionNC.org. If you're interested in starting in prison ministry, get in contact with Scott.
Philip:If you're interested — let me tell you what you should do today. Why don't you sponsor one of these books for a prisoner? Buy a book and say, give that to someone who really needs it in the prisons. And I think that'll be a great blessing. We've got a minute left, Scott. So getting started is the biggest thing. Getting off your seat and beginning is the biggest thing, isn't it?
Experiencing God's Power Behind Bars
Scott Mann:Yeah. Once they go in and they see the power of God — we're having a move of God at my camp. I feel the presence of God more in my camp a lot of times than I do in church. Those guys are freer than the people in the church. When I take people in there that have never been, it blows their mind how the power of God is moving and these guys are real. So just contact me. I'll help you any way I can. You can tell my passion. I'm passionate about everything, but I'm really passionate about this.
Scott Mann:I love it because once you get people in and they experience it, Philip, I'd love for you to come down and I'll let you preach at our prison. We'll set you up.
Philip:That sounds like a plan.
Scott Mann:I know we ain't got no time, but I had Miss Claire from War Room, Karen Abercrombie, she came and preached at our prison. She wrote the foreword to my book. Powerful ministry.
Philip:Listen, time's gone. Get in contact with Scott, newvisionNC.org, and he'll help you fulfill your great commission. And that's the go into the world and preach the gospel. Thank you for watching Daily Faith today. Thank you, Scott, for being with us. Help us in Ukraine. Help Scott reach the world for the Lord Jesus. Help us with this new building as well. We'll see you again. Bye-bye.
For over 25 years, the Cameron family has been changing the lives of orphans in Romania and Moldova, from providing running water, flushing toilets, and clean wells to coal for heat, new windows, as well as food and clothing. They champion the physical needs of the orphans in these broken and desolate countries. Many of Moldova's orphans are saved from the horrors of trafficking through homes founded by the Camerons. And in the process, orphans become daughters and sons.
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Common questions
How did Scott Mann first get into prison ministry?
Scott started about 40 years ago by going into housing projects with two Black friends — they called themselves the 'Oreo Cookie' because the friends walked on the outside to protect him. From there they started visiting the local jail, where Scott initially sang rather than preached. His very first jail visit happened without any paperwork or orientation — a chaplain felt led to let him in anyway, and Scott says God just gave him favor that night.
What's the difference between jail ministry and prison ministry?
Scott explains that jail is a short-term holding facility where people stay anywhere from a day to a week before sentencing, so relationships are harder to build. Prison is where people go after sentencing, which means volunteers can see the same inmates week after week and develop real, ongoing relationships — something Scott says makes prison ministry especially powerful.
How does someone actually get started doing prison or jail ministry?
For jail ministry, Scott says to simply call the local jail, ask for the sheriff, and go through their vetting and background-check process. For prison ministry, most states require completing a PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) training session, after which the chaplain will set volunteers up with service dates. Scott also recommends that first-timers come in with an experienced volunteer to get their feet wet before going solo.
What does a typical week of ministry look like at Scott's prison?
Scott's team runs seven services a week at their facility. Monday nights feature 'Yoke Fellows,' a one-on-one or small-group teaching format that doesn't require preaching. Tuesday nights are discipleship sessions using resources like 40 Days of Purpose. Thursday through Sunday they preach the gospel, and Scott himself goes up to the prison four times a week and preaches twice a month.
How did Scott's book 'Who Cares?' come about, and how is it being distributed to inmates?
Scott says he was deer hunting and praying when he heard an audible voice say 'Who Cares?' — and God told him that was the name of his book. He wrote it as a collection of 100% true stories and testimonies from his decades of jail and prison ministry, intentionally keeping it in his own plain-spoken voice. The book has reached 52 prisons across all 52 states, and it has recently been approved to be loaded onto every inmate tablet in North Carolina — completely free of charge.
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