Helping and Enriching Lives Through Prison Ministry

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Daryl Townsend

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Off The Chain Ministries

Daryl Townsend lives in Middleburg, Florida, just south of Jacksonville. A member of the church of Christ from his youth and affiliated with the congregation in Middleburg for over 25 years, Daryl has been teaching and preaching in Florida Prisons since 2004. He began doing prison ministry full time in December of 2005 and is currently being supported by about seven congregations of the Lord’s church.

Daryl works primarily in prisons in the NE Florida area, including the Florida State Prison at Raiford, particularly the Reception and Medical Center, Union Correctional Institution in Lake Butler, Baker Correctional Institution in Sanderson and the Lawtey Correctional Institution, the state’s only men’s faith and character-based prison, which is located near Starke. Daryl teaches classes, conducts worship services, does individual and group Bible studies and performs individual and group counseling, developing close relationships with inmates who desire to change their lives through Christ. Daryl and his wife, Missy, own two transition houses. They have been married since 1984 and have three adult children.

thDaryl is a graduate of the University of Florida. After a career in the dairy industry for 20 years he made the decision to devote himself to full time evangelism in the Florida Prison System. For nearly two decades now Daryl has been preaching, conducting Bible Studies, teaching Christ based 12 Step Programs, Re-Entry Programs and doing individual inmate counseling daily at several prisons in North East Florida. Most of his activities are conducted at RMC Main Unit and Lawtey CI. He is the president of Off the Chain Ministries, Inc. a not for profit 501 (c) (3) Florida Corporation designed to help support work with men in prison and released from prison. He has been operating a transition program to assist men leaving prison since 2006.