For years, Mission Possible director Jo Anna Woody has worked quietly behind the scenes, helping chaplains bring the Gospel into prisons, detention facilities, juvenile centers, and correctional ministries across America. The ministry equips those serving in difficult places with tools they often could not afford on their own, including Bibles, Chick tracts, Christian comics, and Christian resources.

Many prison chaplains work in difficult environments with limited budgets and few ministry resources. Yet they faithfully step into places filled with loneliness, brokenness, and people searching for hope. Mission Possible exists to help meet that need.

One prison chaplain recently shared how Mission Possible stepped in when his ministry had almost nothing to work with.

Chaplain Albert Sanchez explained that when El Centro Detention Facility first opened in 2019, there were virtually no ministry resources available. “When we first opened our doors—being a new startup—there weren’t any materials in my office. No desk, no bookshelves, no phone, no computer, no materials, and no Bibles.”

Searching for organizations willing to help led him to Mission Possible.

“Because of our partnership and your generous giving to the Lord’s work, we have been able to hand out hundreds of KJV and Reina-Valera Bibles to prisoners coming in and going out.”

He explained that many detainees are surprised to discover the Bibles they receive are theirs to keep.

“Only the Lord knows what has happened in the lives of those who have taken the Bibles you have provided—not only to their country—but into their homes.”

Mission Possible’s ministry stretches from juvenile detention facilities and county jails to prisons, halfway houses, and outreach ministries nationwide. And it’s all made possible through the generosity of faithful supporters.

One chaplain requested 16,000 copies of This Was Your Life! so every inmate in a Puerto Rican facility could receive the Gospel message. Another chaplain requested 3,000 John/Romans books from Chick Publications for the inmates he ministers to. These and thousands of other requests through the years have been met through Mission Possible.

In 2025 alone, Mission Possible distributed 3,939 Bibles, 75,521 Chick tracts, 6,287 Chick comic books, and 1,796 additional Christian resources to correctional facilities nationwide.

“That is 87,544 opportunities to reach a soul for Jesus,” Jo Anna wrote. “That is 87,544 ways that you’ve encouraged a chaplain as he has the resources to do the work God assigned to him.”

Many stories Jo Anna shares reveal God’s hand at work behind the scenes.

One day, a grandmother contacted Chick Publications hoping to get tracts into a prison where her grandson was incarcerated. We connected her with Jo Anna, who reached out to the facility chaplain. At first, she had little success reaching him. Weeks later, she finally made contact.

The timing proved remarkable. The chaplain explained that he oversaw three facilities housing roughly 1,500 inmates and had just lost the man who had been supplying Bibles for the ministry. “I was praying about where to go to find help,” he told her.

For Jo Anna, moments like these serve as reminders that God often opens doors at exactly the right time.

Though Jo Anna runs Mission Possible, she is the first to say that the ministry is truly a team effort.

“There is NO WAY I could do ANY of this by myself,” she recently wrote. “This is a great TEAM effort, led by God’s Spirit!”

Every Bible, Chick tract, comic book, and Christian resource sent through Mission Possible becomes another opportunity for someone to hear the Gospel. Behind each shipment is a chaplain eagerly awaiting a box filled with Bibles and Chick tracts, preparing for the next opportunity to share Christ.

If you would like to support Mission Possible directly, you can contact Jo Anna Woody at 352-464-4448 or write to:

Mission Possible
PO Box 2728
Dunedin, FL 34697

Mission Possible also has a tract purchasing account with Chick Publications. To support this prison ministry, just call 909-987-0771 and mention that you’d like to support Mission Possible. The funds will provide financing for the next shipment of Chick literature to go into these prisons.

Together, we can help place Gospel resources into the hands of chaplains—and into the hands and hearts of men and women many have forgotten.