Bexar County Detention Ministries, Inc.

Our Mission Statement

To facilitate the spiritual, emotional and personal transformation of incarcerated individuals, those formerly incarcerated and their families. 


Statement of Purpose

BCDM, an interfaith agency, began in 1941 with a small group of local pastors who provided worship services and pastoral counseling at the County Jail. Incorporated as a non-profit, 501 (c)(3) agency in 1972, BCDM staff and volunteers provide religious services, support groups, and/or educational classes in 11 adult and juvenile detention and treatment facilities in the San Antonio Metropolitan area. Our Family Renewal Center, located at 503 San Pedro, serves as our outreach center and administrative offices. A wide variety of religious and social services are provided at the Family Renewal Center to those formerly incarcerated in any detention or treatment facility. These same services are also provided to the family members of those incarcerated, or formerly incarcerated. Dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination, BCDM strives to:


  1. Assist incarcerated individuals with developing new direction and meaning in their lives.

  2. Assist in the successful reintegration from incarceration back into society by providing life skills necessary for lawful existence.

  3. Provide support, services, and resources to the family members of the incarcerated.


Bexar County Detention Ministries staff and volunteers provide chaplaincy services in the detention facilities as well as all of our social services in the Family Renewal Center to individuals of any religion, or no religion.
"I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness." (Isaiah 42:7)