MERCY AND GRACE MINISTRIES INC

The below goals are driving towards our impact to bring Love, Hope and Encouragement to the lost, incarcerated. We do this through the teaching and preaching and providing pastoral care to those whom may not have access to that in their current environment. We are building a network of prison and juvenile churches to raise effective leaders internally and externally to use the Gospel message to ignite change from the inside out of these correctional facilities.

2018-2019
1) Add 6-8 additional Church services over 2 state prisons & 2 juvenile facilities.
2) Launch Fresno Region- Serve 8 State Prisons within 1.5 hour drive from Fresno.
3) Grow Prison & Youth volunteer teams and raise up and equip leaders to preach and teach to help accommodate additional services.

Our strategy is to leverage our relationships to build the network of prisons and youth juvenile facilities in the regions we serve. We are building church relationships to drive the raising and equipping of leaders, funding efforts and the focus on raising effective teachers and preachers to bring the change agent of the Gospel to these facilities. Our strategy is to blueprint the successes we have to bring on affiliate churches to raise leaders in the local areas to the facilities we serve as it related to adult and juvenile facilities. Our strategy is to develop programs that augment the prison programs to bring Biblical teaching into these facilities.

We have proven capabilities evident in our growth of the ministry to this present time. We have donors that support us extensively and two major funding events that sustain us each year. Financially, we are solid and that will increase as we take on church partnerships. As it relates to human resources, we have a solid dedicated Board that is diverse in skill sets and has the capability to set and accomplish the goals of the organization in a timely manner. Our network we have built as it relates to prisons, prison chaplains, District Attorney's, Judges and law enforcement is helping to open doors where they would not be available if not for the reputation we have as a ministry. These relationships are the key to our success in growing the correctional facility network. We have faithful volunteers, donors, servants and teams that support the ministry and give us the further confidence for growth into the future. Most importantly, our capabilities don't rest on our own strength, our own network, our own efforts, we are supported and guided by a God who cares about the population we serve. our capabilities truly depend on something greater than ourselves.

The progress as it relates to reaching our goals has been significant. We set goals for 2014 and BEYOND. God has abundantly blessed us in meeting and exceeding all the goals we set. As seen in the Goals section of this report, you can see the accomplished goals for the year. We set these goals and God opened the doors for us to walk through to accomplish them. Our obedience in walking through the doors that God has opened gave us the opportunity to meet our goals. Our biggest risk is not being able to fill the growth of the ministry with the current resources we have. Building church partnerships is the big area of focus and if we can't execute on that strategy, then we will not be able to meet the growth trajectory of the ministry.