Chaplain Ray Perez is the senior Good News Jail & Prison Ministry chaplain serving both the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center and the Prince William Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center. 
He will speak at AFiM on Sunday May 16th at our 4pm service.
We hope to find ways to partner with this ministry and learn more about life in our City. Visitors are welcome!
See the prison ministry website
Chaplain Perez has been in ministry… since 1985 and has served in many ministry capacities:
Director of Christian Education, Director of Outreach & Missions, Principal of New Life Christian Academy, Associate Pastor, Sunday School Teacher, Men’s Group Leader, Nursing Home ministry leader, Bible Study Teacher, Cell-group leader, and many other functions in the local church. In November of 1995, through a string of circumstances natural and supernatural, Chaplain Perez began his service as a full-time Chaplain for the Essex County Sheriff’s Department in Essex County, Massachusetts.
Chaplain Perez served in this role until January 5, 2006 when he took a position with Good News Jail & Prison Ministry to serve here in Northern Virginia. During his tenure as Chaplain in Essex County he established a mentoring program for at-risk offenders, established an after-care network called New Brothers Fellowship, started a transitional house for newly released Christian offenders, served on the Essex County Anti-Crime Council and served on the Governor’s Advisory Council for Institutional Chaplaincy.
Chaplain Perez is married to his lovely wife Gail and is the proud father of seven children and the grandfather of three. His daughter, Anna, lives in Rhode Island and his daughter, Leah and her husband live in Massachusetts. His eldest son, Joshua, lives with his wife in Northern Virginia. Chaplain Perez and his wife currently live with four of their children and his mother-in-law in Jeffersonton, VA.
