Jeff Grupp

Lead Chaplain Jeff Grupp, preaching at Mattawan Community Church, 08/18/24.

Kalamazoo Jail Ministry 1500 Lamont Ave Kalamazoo, MI 49048 PDF Copy of Press Release KJM Receives $30,000 Grant for KJM Aftercare Grant Purpose: Specifically for expanding the Good News about how GOD/Jesus helps those who have next to nothing. August 3, 2024 Kalamazoo Jail Ministry (KJM) has received a $20,000 Read more…

NOTE: caution to the reader, this story contains a lot of humor 🙂 Usually, the jail inmates are so well behaved with us. They are not the same people as they were out in the world. This is because they are GOD’s children, and the devil cannot so readily do Read more…

My wife and I experienced a shocking miracle this week, to do with the jail ministry. It was like the LORD struck me with (His) lightening, and showed me the impossible. I don’t feel I can give specifics, and I do not feel the LORD urging me to either. If Read more…

I can’t give many details, but there was a recent particularly intense situation inside the jail with a suicidal inmate. (Fortunately, the situation abated quickly with no harm or injury.) I had been wanting to see the specific inmate involved, but it had been difficult get in front of him Read more…

Last week, I was talking to a seasoned, hard, angry, loud, violent life-long gangster and criminal, who has till very recently, not received Jesus. But over the past few weeks, he has started to love Jesus. And this formerly ravening wolf, has become soft, loving, obsessed with serving others, with Read more…

We’ve seen a lot of answered prayer inside the jail lately. Often the answered prayers are bold prayers, or prayers for the impossible. To witness this happening pulls one closer to Christ. Let me give you another example of this from the jail. Last week Monday I was on the Read more…

They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. Psalm 34:5 As I have been writing about, the inmates and I, in the jail, have been really focusing on the verses in Scripture about prayer and answered prayer. I gave a list in a recent email Read more…

There is an inmate who is very young that arrived at the jail about a month ago. He’s in the place in the jail where men have the most serious situations. When I first saw this inmate, he was very cold, staring at me in a sort of unfriendly stare-down Read more…

In Scripture, there are accounts of people appearing drunk (see Acts 2:14-15), because they were just healed by GOD, because of their closeness to GOD, or because of direct revelation of GOD (such as with the Pentecost prayer). There are other examples, too. This sort of overtakenness, of sheer out-of-control Read more…