Timeline · 2020 to today
Only God could write this.
One question to a pastor. One son’s sentence. Eighty bags. Then a team that keeps growing. Tap a photo or a newsletter to see the moment for yourself.
“The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.” Proverbs 16:9
January 2020
A question to a pastor
Marisol asks the Monroe campus pastor what Graystone is doing in prison ministry. “Nothing,” he says, “but we should be.”
August 2020
The call, confirmed
Our founders’ oldest son is sentenced to twenty years in federal prison. Their life falls apart, and God confirms the call.
December 2020
80 bags for 80 inmates
The first Lincolnton Christmas outreach. Socks, stamps and beef jerky, sponsored at $50 a bag, shipped by UPS. Only God opened that door.
June 2021
The vision
A Prison Fellowship article about loneliness in prison says it plainly: the simplest thing is a note from someone on the outside.
January 2022
GPM is born
Four women start meeting every Tuesday at the Loganville campus to study God’s word on prison ministry and plan outreaches.
November 2022
Inside for the first time
Six men and six women minister in person with music, testimony, pizza and brownies. The start of a relationship with the jail.
August 2023
Record sign-ups
Seventeen women and ten men join. Special Kneads and Treats begins baking 80 treats for every single outreach.
📄 The August 2023 GPM newsletter January 2024
From four to twenty-seven
GPM grows from its original four to twenty-seven on the roster, and God uses the team’s visits to lead five men to salvation.
📄 The January 2024 GPM newsletter May 2025
Invited by Prison Fellowship
GPM hosts Prison Fellowship’s Mother’s Day Hope Event at Whitworth Women’s Facility.
The GPM team at Whitworth Women’s Facility, Hartwell August 2025
48 and growing
Forty-eight active volunteers and supporters, a rotating team of preachers and teachers, and worship joining in September.
2025
Five years of faithfulness
The GPM family gathers to celebrate five years of prison ministry, and everything God has done through it.
Celebrating GPM’s 5 year anniversary 2026
Restore 2026, Washington, D.C.
Marisol and Jamil join Prison Fellowship’s Restore 2026 gathering, where Marisol shares GPM’s story with ministry leaders from across the country.
Marisol with the GPM handbook at the “How to Start a Prison Ministry” table 
The Graystone team at Restore 2026 Marisol at Restore 2026 Today
We will follow Him where He leads us.
“The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31:8
