Jesus ministers on the other side.....

Mar 5:1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.
Mar 5:2 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.
Mar 5:3 He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,
Mar 5:4 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.
Mar 5:5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.
Mar 5:6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him.
Mar 5:7 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me."
Mar 5:8 For he was saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
Mar 5:9 And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
Mar 5:10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.
Mar 5:11 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside,
Mar 5:12 and they begged him, saying, "Send us to the pigs; let us enter them."
Mar 5:13 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered the pigs, and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and were drowned in the sea.
Mar 5:14 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened.
Mar 5:15 And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.
Mar 5:16 And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs.
Mar 5:17 And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region.
Mar 5:18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.
Mar 5:19 And he did not permit him but said to him, "Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you."
Mar 5:20 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
This passage of scripture was the inspiration for the name Gadara, which was a gentile region that most of the religious folk of the day, would not dare to venture into. Yet Jesus Christ would make a deliberate visit to encounter someone that no one else would. He delivered this man and his life was forever changed. The compassion of Christ is so profound, reaching out to those who were outcasts, regenerating the spiritually dead, healing the sick, restoring sight to the blind, and delivering captives from bondage.

According to a study by OJP's Bureau of Justice Statistics, almost 7.3 million men and women were under correctional supervision in the nation's prisons or jails or on probation or parole at yearend 2009. About 70 percent (5 .0 million) of the adults under correctional supervision at yearend 2009 were supervised in the community (either probation or parole) while 30 percent (2.3 million) were incarcerated in the nation's prisons or jails. At yearend 2009, approximately one in every 31 U.S. residents was under community supervision or incarcerated. An estimated 756 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents were incarcerated in state or federal prison or in local jails at yearend 2009. The majority will be released back into the population with strained family relationships, employment challenges, lack of education, and uncertain futures.

The mission of Gadara Ministries is to provide the formerly incarcerated with the training and tools necessary to break the cycle of prison recidivism, and become productive citizens by the power of the Holy Spirit of God. Gadara Ministries is a Christ centered organization that provides for their physical, emotional, mental, and deepest spiritual needs of the formerly incarcerated. Utilizing biblical principals we will transform character and change conduct to mold productive citizens.

To the point of no return......