TRANSFORmaTION TOUR

That's not a brag. It's just true.

Every year, my team and I walk into prisons across the country. Not because we have to. Because somebody needs to show up and share hope. 

There are 2.4 million people locked up in America right now. That makes the prison population the fourth-largest city in the country. Bigger than Houston. And here's the part that doesn't make the news — up to 97% of them are getting out. They're coming back to your neighborhood and mine.

Rehabilitation isn't working very well, is it? The recidivism rate hovers around 75%. Meaning three out of four people who get released end up back inside. Something has to change. And it has to start somewhere deeper than a program. 

It has to start in the heart.

That's what the Transformation Tour is. We use music to get in the door, behind the bars, past the walls people put up when they've heard every pitch and every promise. Music opens hearts. And once they are open, we bring the one thing that actually has the power to transform a life from the inside out. The Gospel. 

We've watched it happen. Men and women who walk in with no hope walk out different. Changed by something real and powerful.

When that happens, our cities get safer. Our communities get stronger. Someone who was headed back in becomes a light that keeps somebody else from going in the first time.

Not many people get to walk through these doors. God opened this door for us. And we do, and we take it very seriously. We know the value of each person we stand before. 

If you want to be part of what happens in those rooms, there's a place for you in this.