Angel Tree Founder Visits Judson

Mary Kay Beard, former Alabama director of Prison Fellowship and founder of Angel Tree Ministries, made her sixth trip to Judson College chapel Oct. 5. Beard, a former inmate, found salvation in the Jefferson County jail in Birmingham after a life of crime. She earned a full scholarship to Auburn University while incarcerated at the Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, where she was paroled after serving five years of her 20-year sentence. Her story is told in her autobiography, “Rogue Angel.”