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Thor has been married to his sweet wife, Trish for over 36 years, and they have three children and nine grandchildren.
Several years ago Pastor Thor and Trish began trying to start a church. The only part of the church ministry that really grew was the jail ministry. As God closed the doors of the church, He was opening a window into the jail ministry. In September, 2008, we decided to just concentrate on the jail ministry. It began, Easter, 2004, when a family visited our church. They looked like good prospects and visited several times. Suddenly the father of the family was arrested and put in jail. He was accused of murdering a prostitute who was blackmailing him. Pastor Thor visited him in jail. A ministry there invited Pastor Thor to help them and he began going once a month to help with a worship service they gave weekly. Soon Trish joined him in this. In February, 2007, we branched out on our own and began going once a week to hold worship services in the jail. After a month it was obvious that we needed to do more if we were going to have an impact. Pastor Thor started writing Sunday School lessons for the men to do on their own, and turn back into us at the services. The men we minister to are waiting for trial. After a few months they are either set free or go to prison. Some of the ones who went to prison continued to take our lessons by mail. Word spread. Now we have about a 125 active Bible students in prisons from California to New Hampshire. We are currently sending free Bibles and Bible studies into 75 facilities. We have given away over 1,500 Bibles. God has truly blessed this work. |
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Thor Carden accepted Christ as his Savior in December 1973, and was called into the ministry March 2003. In
April 2003, Thor initiated the Bibles for Soldiers Project, which donated Bibles to
the military deployed in Iraq.
Thor graduated Cum Laude with a Master of Arts Degree in Religion from
Liberty University in January 2005. He served as a
Volunteer Chaplain at Tennessee Christian Hospital from 2006 - 2007, holding two services every Sunday morning for the patients.
Since September, 2008, Thor and Trish have been focused on their jail ministry and Bible Study by Mail lessons through their church, Love Bible Church.