Gerard Chrispin is enthusiastic about the Christian message! He feels the greatest joys are to receive Christ and to help others to do so. He is fully involved in this work through his local church, his writing ministry, Christian Prison Resources Ministries, United Beach Missions and Christian Answer. A qualified lawyer, he is convinced that the evidence for the truth of the Bible and the resurrection of Jesus Christ is rock solid.
We cannot stay out of prison! ‘Hi Tim. What on earth are you doing in here again?’ ‘Breach of licence. This geezer said I had threatened him, and I’m back inside. You know me, Gerard. He was lying’. Tim smiled wryly and looked knowingly at me. At previous prisons he was…
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What a weekend! I am convinced that the UK needs young men more concerned about reaching the lost with the gospel than about whether the guitar is in tune or amplification working properly! It was a pleasure, therefore, to join 80 young folk, men and women, motivated to make Christ known, at Speakers' Corner,…
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Discharged Gerard Chrispin has recently retired as General Director of DAYLIGHT Christian Prison Trust – but not from sharing the gospel! Here he challenges his ‘fellow dinosaurs’ to use their retirement to serve the Master. How easy it is to get institutionalised! It is sad to see men and women who were…
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Captive audience, with liberty to stay away! Gerard Chrispin discusses a unique prison double mission During DAYLIGHT’s Easter Mission at HMP Verne and Young Offenders Institute (YOI) at Portland, one inmate called Bert (all prisoners names changed) declared that the Christianity Explored (CE) course – modified for prison use – had ‘filled…
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Britain's young offenders Murders involving teenagers are in the news repeatedly these days. British youth behaviour must be among the worst in Europe. Teenage pregnancies are at an unprecedented level. Binge drinking spawns immorality and criminality, and youngsters now boast about their drug habit. Yet there is pressure to lift the age of criminality…
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Recent media coverage on prison life suggests that it is all ‘a bit of a doddle’. Attention is focused on the cost of keeping in prison men and women who have many victims between them. Some victims are ‘primary’ sufferers because of the wrong done to them. Others are hurt because loved ones or…
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Recent media coverage on prison life suggests that it is all ‘a bit of a doddle’. Attention is focused on the cost of keeping in prison men and women who have many victims between them. Some victims are ‘primary’ sufferers because of the wrong done to them. Others are hurt because loved ones or…
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