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John Karjanis, volunteer with the Prison Book Project, playfully demonstrates the plight of the outreach, whose quarter-of-a-million books, housed at Titusville’s Miracle City Mall, will soon need to find a new home if the organization is to continue its mission.
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a divine call to bring hope to broken lives through Christian literature. He started by taking his own books to the county jail, gathering more from flea markets and garage sales. His goal was to deliver 1,000 books within two years. He contacted publishers, who sent books by the pallet. The outreach has since expanded to roughly two million books and Bibles delivered to 18,047 prisons throughout the United States. Books are also sent to 35 countries through missionaries, as well as military chaplains in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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When Ray Hall, founder of the Prison Book Project, looks at the quarter-of-a-million Christian books warehoused in 4,000 square feet of space at Titusville's Miracle City Mall, he sees lives that could be changed. He wants to put the books in the hands of inmates, as he has since 1994. But when anchor store JCPenney closes its doors in February, the mall will too. Although Titusville is working toward redeveloping the site, the mall's closing threatens to leave the outreach with nowhere to store its books. “We might soon be out of business,” Hall lamented. The outreach began when Hall retired and answered
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