Steve Deace Show Ministry BEHIND BARS | Guests: Jeremy & Eve Coe | 3/2/26
Mar 2, 2026
Eve Coe, co-founder of Real Vida Ministries who led evangelism and media for inmates. Jeremy Coe, former pastor and attorney who launched Real Vida TV to reach prisoners. They discuss why they left traditional ministry for prisons. They describe digital tablet outreach, creative sacramental practices behind bars, stories of conversions, and how prisons became fertile ground for large-scale discipleship.
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Weekly Jail Visit Built Lifelong Discipleship
- Jeremy and Eve began weekly jail ministry across the street from their first church and developed relationships by showing up every Monday for 13–14 years.
- Men released from the county jail crossed to their church, joined discipleship, and many stayed connected into long-term recovery and housing programs.
Drug Dealer Noticed Church Changed Local Market
- A former drug dealer told Eve he lost clients because church members quit selling drugs after conversion, which surprised and encouraged him.
- The story illustrates cultural transformation when pastors engage the marginalized directly and discipleship changes behavior in the community.
Revival Often Springs From The Margins
- Jeremy links Jesus starting ministry among Galileans to God choosing the marginalized as the primary locus of revival.
- They believe a movement is rising inside prisons where desperate people are more open to God than comfortable churchgoers.