Broken Chains: Thousands Come to Faith through Eyeglass Ministry at Summit County Jail – 2011-05-27
By: Katie Sobiech
The lyrics of Amazing Grace, “I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see”, echo throughout the halls of the Summit County jail these days, literally.
Broken Chains Ministry (BCM) has opened the doors of opportunity wide to minister to offenders by creating an eyeglass ministry. Through this, they open people’s eyes physically and spiritually.
This started in 2004 when BCM first formed, after much prayer and realizing how poor the eyesight of many inmates was. “We saw that we were missing a lot of opportunities to minister to people. People wouldn’t come to chapel or bible study, even though those doors were wide open for them. We were missing a multitude of people who we could get the gospel message to,” Reverend Dennis Shawhan, Executive Director of BCM , said.