Paula White Ministries supports Loving Hearts Ministry, which is dedicated to helping incarcerated men, women, and their families, ex-offenders, and those battling with addictions and survival obstacles, to attain victory over their past…through the love of God through Jesus Christ.

Bear and Dove Ministering

“Loving Hearts visits and preaches in prisons around the United States at least once a month; we touch 500 to 1,000 prisoners monthly through letters, books, and services. Postage is our biggest cost each month!” says LHM co-founder Dove Morgan-Osborne. “LHM reaches nearly every state in the union, and eight different countries, including Canada, Egypt, England, Mexico, and the Philippines.”

Best of Bear

“At our main office (in Bristow, OK), the services we offer include a weekly, loving support group for ex-offenders, and those that have loved ones still incarcerated – we feed them, offer them a visit to our clothing bank and food bank…[assist them] in finding local employment, housing, and ex-offender friendly churches to plug into; we teach them the Word of God at every meeting. At Christmas we gave all the families a big turkey dinner to take home!”

Best of Bear Back Grouping

Additionally, Loving Hearts sponsors a weekly Christian 12-Step Program called “Choose Life” for those challenged with addictions, depression, or who “just need a listening ear,” says Dove. Other LHM outreaches touch prisoners throughout the world, through a network of support. “We help them find jobs, housing, placement for parole plans; we write parole board letters for those that have been in contact with LHM for a year or more…[and assist in] writing or calling their family members for encouragement.”

Through the support of Paula White Ministries, Loving Hearts has been able to publish one of its most important evangelizing tools – the new book, A Bear and A Dove: A Journey of Faith, a true story detailing the life of Richard “Bear” Morgan, Dove’s now-deceased first husband.

A Bear and A Dove Book Cover

Bear spent twenty-two years behind bars, but was radically transformed after giving his life to Jesus while incarcerated. After his release, he and Dove started Loving Hearts Ministry with the mission of “bringing victory to prisoners and their families.” Their journey tells a powerful story of restoration, provision, and faith, and through its publication has enabled prisoners who read it to be freed of bonds of hatred, racism, violence, and abuse through their own relationship with Christ.

Dove recently shared a testimony sent by an inmate who’d read A Bear and A Dove:

Dove on Motorcycle

Dove shares, “My greatest joy in the ministry is seeing the thousands of lives transformed -- and the salvations as men and women that are incarcerated read A Bear and A Dove and take the Bear Challenge: that they will never do another drug or drink, and they will serve God with all of their hearts for the rest of their lives.” LHM also publishes the magazine Prison Victory.

Bear

“Paula White Ministries helps us, financially, to get the books and magazines into the hands of prisoners all over the world, and to answer the mail of inmates that come in by the piles…helping us with postage, printing -- and helping us to get the book translated into Spanish! The other thing that helps so much is the teaching ministry of Paula White and how we are so encouraged, nurtured and fed by the Word of God…to do the work the Lord has called us to do with boldness and determination,” says Dove.

Dove at a Radio Station in Texas

Loving Hearts has a staff of eight working in Oklahoma, and has recently opened an office in California. “One of the things I’m proudest of is bringing the races together in a very racist community here in Oklahoma…we have a great mix at our meetings!” states Dove. “I believe God has called us to reach the community (our Jerusalem), then Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth. God loves the prisoner…Psalm 102:20!”

Dove at Coleman Prison

Thanks to the partners and friends of Paula White Ministries – making the difference through efforts like these…and touching God’s precious souls in prisons around the world!