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At a recent training for volunteers for Texas prisons, a prison chaplain was quoted as saying “Before the Texas prison system allowed Christian volunteers to come to prisons, they had a recidivism rate of 84%. Since the inception of the volunteer program in Texas prisons that rate has dropped to 34%.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Mountain River Ministries co-founder, Mark Houser, is an experienced praise and worship leader, song writer and preacher with a gift for ministering to prisoners. Two to three times a month Mark and his team travel to area prisons where they lead services and bring souls to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>If you would like to learn more about the prison ministry, please contact us.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/mountainriverministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Crowded-Prisons.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on” column_padding_mobile=”on”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/mountainriverministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mark.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section transparent_background=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on” padding_mobile=”off” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”off” custom_width_px=”1080px” custom_width_percent=”80%” make_equal=”off” use_custom_gutter=”off” fullwidth=”on” specialty=”off” admin_label=”section” disabled=”off” global_module=”200″][et_pb_fullwidth_post_title title=”on” meta=”off” author=”on” date=”on” date_format=”M j, Y” categories=”on” comments=”on” featured_image=”on” featured_placement=”background” parallax_effect=”off” parallax_method=”on” text_orientation=”left” text_color=”light” text_background=”off” text_bg_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)” title_font_size=”73px” title_all_caps=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1px” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”240px||40px|” disabled=”off”][\/et_pb_fullwidth_post_title][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section transparent_background=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on” padding_mobile=”off” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”off” custom_width_px=”1080px” custom_width_percent=”80%” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"yoast_head":"\nMark Houser<\/h5>\n