$30,000 for 30 Years Free

Freedom Forward! 

Thirty years of faithfulness, thirty years of vision:    

It has always been personal for Reverend Jonathan Clayton. When he was released from Pollsmoor Prison on March 18th 1991, he kissed the ground.

“With the help of God, this place will never see me again.”

He jokes that he has been driving over this kiss for thirty years. Reverend Clayton escaped the shadow of South Africa’s prison system, but his heart remained with the men and women still suffering behind bars. 

He studied and was ordained through the Baptist Theological Seminary in Cape Town. Together with his wife Jenny, they founded Hope Prison Ministry. What began with one couple and a Volkswagen Beetle is now an international movement of more than 150 staff and volunteers serving across 26 prisons on a weekly basis. 

We receive no funding from the Department of Correctional Services, so we are completely reliant on our faithful community of donors who have made this journey possible. The global pandemic has had a devastating effect on chartable giving, but our programs are needed now more than ever.   

Help us launch into the next thirty years of faithfulness!

We have an ambitious goal of raising $30,000 in honor of the thirty years that God has been faithful since Jonathan’s release.  

We are proud to announce that we have already received commitments for $15,000 in matching funds that will make this campaign a reality. Whatever you give towards this project before the end of April will be doubled,