Our Mission
- To provide for and promote the spiritual comfort and growth of those incarcerated at OCC,
- To hire and supervise a full-time chaplain,
- To support programs that benefit OCC residents holistically,
- To facilitate the development of skills, abilities and motivation for residents to successfully reintegrate into their communities and families upon release,
- To foster and deepen public understanding of the needs of people who are incarcerated,
- To solicit, receive and manage funding and volunteer support for the operation of the ministry, the chaplain and AOPM programs.
- To make connections with individuals, organizations, resources in the broader community to join in the mission of AOPM.
Alamance Orange Prison Ministry (AOPM) is the non-profit community organization providing a chaplain and bringing spiritual comfort and growth to the men assigned to Orange Correctional Center
How We Started
What originally began as a chaplaincy program through Yates Baptist Association in 1984 became Alamance Orange Prison Ministry in 1987. While Alamance Orange Prison Ministry remains a Christian organization, we serve people of all faiths through our chaplain to the residents and staff at Orange Correctional Center, a North Carolina minimum security prison for adult males in Hillsborough, NC.
Many people assume that the state pays a chaplain inside all prisons, but the state does NOT provide chaplain services in smaller state prisons.
Orange Correctional Center is one facility which relies on the community to provide a chaplain for religious and spiritual support programs.
