Warning!  This is a No-Hostage Area Enter At Your Own Risk

Each week, Jill Storms passes this warning sign on the way to her Bible Study within the fences and walls of the maximum security section of the Elmwood Women’s Correctional Facility.

“It is such a humbling experience to be with these women each week," says Jill.  “We are all sinners.  I deserve 24/7 lock-down as much as anyone, and when I see these formerly hardened and abused women signing, praying and praising God, it just reminds me that I am right where God wants me to be.”

Unlike other Bible studies she has attended, Jill says that all the women at Elmwood is at some crisis point in their lives. “Yet every week, women stand to claim their reliance on Jesus Christ. It is just amazing to watch them minister and pray for each other.  I am blessed and strengthened just being around these women each week, far more, I believe, than they are!”

In spite Jill has never been afraid to enter a maximum security prison. “The safest place to be is in God’s will, and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”

The Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy (CIC) touches hundreds of men, women, boys, and girls in the Santa Clara county jails and juvenile facilities every day. Their primary mission is to minister to individual needs and present the "Good News" of the gospel of Jesus Christ to all who will listen. Lives are changed as inmates, young and old, respond to and accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord.

CIC works with about 300 volunteers. Orientation meetings are held 3 times a year and are open to all interested persons. For meeting times & locations: www.cicministries.org.