Gregory E. Von Tobel

As a former stockbroker, Gregory E. Von Tobel has been involved in full-time prison missionary work for more than thirty years. He is the founder and president of Prisoners For Christ Outreach Ministries (PFC), a ministry dedicated to taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ into the jails, prisons, and juvenile institutions not only in Washington State but also worldwide. PFC has field offices in seventeen foreign countries, including Russia, Nepal, India, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Togo, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia, and the Philippines.

Last year in 2018, PFC’s volunteers worldwide conducted more than five hundred church services and Bible studies per month, averaging almost seventeen services per day somewhere in the world. More than 880,000 inmates attended PFC services, last year. PFC’s national Bible Study Correspondence School in America has over twenty-seven hundred inmates on its student-body roster. PFC’s national inmate newspaper, Yard Out, is sent to over twelve hundred prison institutions nationally in America. In addition, PFC has over fifteen hundred volunteers worldwide, coming from over two hundred different churches. PFC has opened up four Bible colleges inside prisons in the last four years, two in America, and two in Nigeria.

Mr. Von Tobel was a stockbroker for eleven years, from 1978 through 1989, for various firms, including EF Hutton & Co. and Shearson Lehman Brothers, when God called him into full-time prison ministry work. On May 14, 1990, God closed one chapter of his life as a stockbroker, and on the following day, May 15, 1990, God opened up a whole new chapter of his life as a full time prison missionary. As of 1984, Greg has been ministering in Washington State jails and prisons, six years on a volunteer basis and the last thirty years as a full-time missionary to those incarcerated.

Mr. Von Tobel has also served on the Governor’s Panel of the Department of Corrections, Religious Services Advisory Council, assisting the department in setting religious policies and practices for inmates. In addition, he has served as past president of the Washington Chaplains Association and was a former Duvall city councilman.

Greg has been married to Rhonda for the past forty years, and they have three children and three grandchildren.