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.”
Angel Tree Founder Visits Judson
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