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Leland Maples
Leland and Linda Maples live in Odessa, Texas, and have for many years. Leland is a graduate of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.
Leland is the Executive Director of LOOPS (Loved Ones o...mehr sehenLeland and Linda Maples live in Odessa, Texas, and have for many years. Leland is a graduate of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.
Leland is the Executive Director of LOOPS (Loved Ones of Prisoners.) Beginning in 1985, Leland, and his wife Linda, have conducted faith based programs in most West Texas prisons and some as far away as McNeil Island, Washington.
He has received Outstanding Service Awards from the Chaplaincy Department of the Odessa Police and the Texas Department of Parole. Leland received the President’s Award from the Odessa Chamber of Commerce while serving as their sports committee chairman.
LOOPS has been honored by the Texas Corrections Association for their “Day With Dad” program for prison inmates and their elementary school age children; by the Texas Baptists for their Good Samaritan Award and the Governor’s Award for Family Programs.
Leland conducts weekly “spirituality programs” at Turning Point, Men’s Clover House on Jackson Street, Ladies Clover House on Dixie and the Clover House relapse facility on Idlewood. He also teaches a weekly class at the parole office and serves as a chaplain at the Ector County Jail in addition to teaching a Sunday School class at his church.
LOOPS began and conducts the REC-Room (Re-Entry Chapel) each Thursday night.
Linda Maples works in the LOOPS office assisting with the publication of the monthly LOOPS newsletter, Reflections. She also helps organize the Prison Fellowship Angel Tree Christmas program for local children whose parent(s) are incarcerated.weniger sehen
Bücher von Leland Maples
Keep Looking Up!: Gleanings from Thirty-Plus Years of Prison Ministry