Dr. Angela Solomon
The Church Behind Prison Walls is motivational, inspirational, divinely instructional and empowering. It is designed to inspire and instruct Pastors, as well as, lay persons how to care and mentor the socially, psychologically and spiritually ills of our society.
Students, universities, prison institutions and churches will be able to enable and facilitate individuals in goal setting in life’s journey. It is especially designed to motivate and assist mentors and men tees set goals and carry out future plans for their destination in life. It is a deterrent to crime, I believe. I have been called, anointed and divinely appointed for this task that I share.
The book’s main goal and purpose is seeking to stop recidivism, drug abuse and chemically dependant individuals toward an alternate life style.
Rev. Dr. Angela Solomon is a proven and dedicated leader who has responded to God’s Call through faith, preparation and hard work in her vocation and ministry.
Dr. Solomon is a New York State Certified Chaplain and serves as Associate Director of Pastoral Care at Westchester County Department of Corrections. There she ministers to 1300 persons on the correctional staff and more man 1800 inmates. In addition, she serves as Chaplain at the Westchester Country Medical Center and Ruth Taylor Nursing Home where she is the Coordinator of the Chaplaincy Volunteer Program.
In 1989, Dr. Solomon was ordained an Elder at the New York Annual Conference of the AME Church by Bishop Frank Curtis Cummings.
In this Book, I have followed the methodology of Liberation Theology. It was an attempt to present a picture of the reality of the prison experience within the Westchester County Penal System, in particular, as it involves Afro American women. This is a reflection on the God of Compassion and Liberation and on my own journey of faith in response to God as friend. This is the basis upon which my ministry and caring for my Sisters inside the system rests. This is a reflection on Feminist and Womanist Theology, illustrated by my reading of the familiar story of Hagar and others. My “reflection” on the God of compassion and liberation called me to a ministry of caring for those who are so often alienated. God walks with me in this faith journey, as a Friend, so I try to walk with my sisters as a friend together with other Pastors, Ministers, Evangelists and Missionaries, who have attempted to minister to our sisters within the Correctional Facility and to set in motion an After Care Mentoring Program.
This experience of positive growth has brought an air of richness into my life and a renewed awareness of my proud African American heritage. It is with this pride that I write this demonstration project, my faith journey, through my own eyes, that of an African American Woman, ministering in “THE CHURCH BEHIND THE PRISON WALLS”.
