WASHINGTON, 
D.C. (WordNews.org) April 28, 2012 — Chuck Colson will be remembered during a service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on May 16.
The service is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.
The memorial service is open to the public.
Colson died on April 21 from complications resulting from a brain hemorrhage.He was 80.
Colson was a Watergate figure who “emerged from the country’s worst political scandal, a vocal Christian leader and a champion for prison ministry,” the ministry said.
Colson entered a guilt plea to Watergate-related charges although he was not implicated in the Watergate burglary. He voluntarily pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in the Daniel Elsberg case. He entered Maxwell Federal Prison Camp in Alabama in 1974 as a new Christian, serving seven month of a one- to three-year sentence.
But when he was released, he had a new mission: mobilizing the Christian church to minister to prisoners. He started Prison Fellowship in 1976. He visited some 600 prisons in the U.S. and 40 other countries, and built a movement that at one time extended to more than 50,000 prison ministry volunteers.
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