Shepherd’s Heart Ministries, Inc. — Organization Profile
Shepherd’s Heart Ministries, Inc. is a Christian prison ministry affiliated with the Independent Christian Churches and Churches of Christ in the Restoration Movement. The ministry is focused on bringing the Gospel, pastoral care, chaplaincy, counseling, discipleship, and long-term support to incarcerated people, juvenile offenders, ex-inmates, and their families.
The ministry is based in Speedway, Indiana, and serves correctional settings and people connected to incarceration in Indiana, including county jails and state correctional facilities. Public ministry materials identify work connected to the Marion County Jail in Indianapolis, the Madison County Jail in Anderson, the Indiana Women’s Prison, and other correctional ministry contexts.
Shepherd’s Heart Ministries takes its name from the Parable of the Lost Sheep in Luke 15. Its public materials describe a calling to go after people many others have written off, especially incarcerated youth and adults who are isolated, lonely, spiritually searching, or facing long sentences. The ministry’s approach combines biblical teaching, pastoral presence, personal testimony, correspondence, chaplaincy, counseling, and relational follow-up.
Shawn and Lynn Springer bring complementary experience to the ministry. Shawn’s story includes incarceration, spiritual transformation, Bible study, and a later call to return to correctional settings as a minister. Lynn has served in jail and prison ministry since 1987, with a particular focus on juvenile offenders, including youth who have been remanded to the adult system. Her work has included Bible studies, pastoral care, volunteer coordination, training, and long-term correspondence and visits with incarcerated people.
The ministry has served through Bible studies, pastoral care, Celebrate Recovery, chapel services, volunteer chaplaincy, juvenile ministry, correspondence with inmates, support for ex-inmates, and relationships with families affected by incarceration. Its public site also includes articles, testimony pages, prayer requests, recommendations, pictures, prison poems, and project-support information related to correctional ministry.
People can engage with Shepherd’s Heart Ministries, Inc. by praying, giving, contacting the ministry, reading ministry updates, supporting chaplaincy and counseling work, and helping provide spiritual and financial support for ongoing prison outreach. Its distinct contribution is Restoration Movement prison ministry rooted in lived experience, long-term jail and prison presence, juvenile offender care, and Gospel-centered discipleship for people affected by incarceration.
Key Links
- Website: https://www.shmprison.org/
- About Us: https://www.shmprison.org/about-us.html
- His Story: https://www.shmprison.org/his-story.html
- Her Story: https://www.shmprison.org/her-story.html
- Our Story: https://www.shmprison.org/our-story.html
- Prayer Requests: https://www.shmprison.org/prayer-requests.html
- Articles: https://www.shmprison.org/articles
- Testimonies & Recommendations: https://www.shmprison.org/testimonies–recommendations.html
- Contact: https://www.shmprison.org/contact.html
- Donations: https://www.shmprison.org/donations.html
Contact Information
- Email: sh*************@***oo.com
- Email: LC***********@*ol.com
- Phone: 317-299-1217
- Mailing address: Shepherd’s Heart Ministries, Inc., PO Box 241009, Speedway, IN 46224
Socials
- Not publicly listed.
Leadership
- Shawn Springer — Prison ministry worker; volunteer chaplain
- Lynn Cole Springer — Prison ministry worker; volunteer chaplain
