Dr. Ray Mitchell, DMin, has been in the pastoral ministry since 1995 and active in jail ministry for more than ten years. He has served as the lead chaplain of the Chautauqua Count...view moreDr. Ray Mitchell, DMin, has been in the pastoral ministry since 1995 and active in jail ministry for more than ten years. He has served as the lead chaplain of the Chautauqua County Jail (New York) since 2005. One of the greatest concerns that Dr. Mitchell has is that more than 80 percent of men and women released from county jails will fail to have a successful re-entry into society and will return to jail. His desire was to write a book in simple laymen's terms in order that churches seeking to be involved in jail ministry might have a resource to use as an effective ministry tool.
Dr. Mitchell is also the director of IN-STEP Ministries, a counseling and consulting ministry specializing in jail ministry, anger management, and biblical counseling centered upon cognitive renewal. He and his wife, Lisa, live and minister in western New York; they have been married for more than twenty-seven years and have three grown children and two grandchildren.view less