P.O. Box 40031 | Cleveland, OH 44140-0031 | 440.541.8544 
Founded as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, charitable organization within the State of Ohio in 1983
About Us
- Our Purpose and Mission
- Description
- Brief list of activities
- Contact Information
- How to find your way around our site
- Missing Link FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- Our Swiss founder's background
- Pictures of The Missing Link in action
- References
- What The Missing Link provides
Our Purpose and Mission
To provide troubled youth and adults with life-changing programs and resources. To help sinners truly understand what it means to be born again. To see that new believers are discipled and trained for Christian service. To teach God's Word to children and youth, steering them away from a life of crime.
Description
This full-time Internet and prison ministry, based in Cleveland, Ohio, was founded in 1983. The Missing Link concentrates on linking troubled youth and adults with life-changing programs around the world, through their 24-hour-accessible, online database of Christian residential programs. Round-the-clock practical help for troubled youth and adults, and those who minister to them, can be found on their web site. Their online Lorain County Free-Net Chapel, original home of David Wilkerson's Times Square Church Pulpit Series, is filled with preventive counseling and a host of resources for new, struggling, and growing Christians, and even includes an award-winning Children's Chapel, which features a growing repertoire of Bible story lessons and over 150 family-friendly links for children. Our weekly Bible stories are now being sent to thousands of e-mail subscribers in more than 220 nations, reaching from Argentina to Zimbabwe.
Our Swiss founder's background
Chaplain Mario, a Swiss evangelist, was converted to Christ from a life of alcohol addiction through “Mom” Wilkerson of the New York City Teen Challenge. He held a Master of Arts in Pastoral Psychology and Counseling through Ashland Theological Seminary and was a licensed professional member of the American Correctional Association. He was fluent in English, the Swiss dialects, German, French, and Italian.
Chaplain Mario was affectionately known within the prison system as the “Chicken Soup” Chaplain. He gained this title because of his popular, tearful readings from “Chicken Soup for the Soul” at the beginning of each of his chapel services. Inmates readily related to these heart-warming stories of courageous people who climbed impossible hurdles, when life was against them - stories that reopen the heart and rekindle the spirit. There was hardly a dry eye after these stories, which God used in a remarkable way to reopen the hearts of hardened criminals.
Chaplain Mario received heaven’s call November 5, 2023. He fought a good fight and finished his course. He now shines as a star for all eternity after leading many souls to Christ (2 Timothy 4:7; Daniel 12:3b). Visit obituary link and scroll down to find his dramatized life story and watch service and tribute videos: www.wyers-bollinger.com/obituaries/kurt-haas.
Chaplain Mario's wife, Barbara, has faithfully stood by her husband’s side in ministry since they married in 1972. The Missing Link board of directors felt it wise to now appoint her to oversea the ministry since she knows her husband’s heart best.
To learn more about Chaplain Mario and how it all began, follow this link. To learn more about his wife, go to About Me.
Brief description of activities
Full-time ministry to prisoners and to those who live in prisons of their own making. Bible studies; discipleship and Christian service training through free Bible courses; correspondence with prisoners; referral services; teaching God's Word to children and youth, preventing them from a life of crime.
How to find your way around our site
We've designed our site to be a great Christian starting point on the web. Bookmark it so you can return later on.
You'll notice two blue panels running down the left and right sides of the page. Inside the left blue panel are links to The Missing Link web site, our family ministry that specializes in linking troubled youth and adults with life-changing programs around the world.
Inside the right blue panel are links that lead to our online Chapel, the Lorain County Free-Net Chapel, which is the original home of David Wilkerson's Times Square Church Pulpit Series.
Inside the white space in the center of our home page are links that lead to news, weather and Christian resources off our site. Also, in that right blue panel, you'll find links to our Chapel Library which is full of links to scores of Christian resources. This one page alone will keep you busy for days!
What The Missing Link provides
Training - It is a joy to help sinners truly understand what it means to be born again through our free, How to Be Born Again Bible study which we regularly mail to prisoners. We see that new believers are discipled and trained for Christian service by sending them applications for free Bible courses in English and Spanish that include personal follow-up by Christian mentors.
Crime Prevention - We love to teach God's Word to children and youth, preventing them from a life of crime. Childrenschapel.org crime prevention arm of The Missing Link reaches over 220 nations, delivering free, weekly Bible story lessons, teaching God's Word to thousands who are hurting and lost in hopeless situations, facing daily persecution, trapped in prisons created by godless governments. This three-year Bible curriculum is available online 24/7 free-of-charge. These stories are being used around the world in Sunday school classrooms (even with seniors!), in care homes, in vacation Bible school, in religious education classes, in Bible clubs, in family altar time, and as bedtime stories.
Referral Services - The Missing Link concentrates on linking troubled youth and adults with life-changing programs around the world, through their 24-hour-accessible, online database of Christian residential programs, focusing first on Adult & Teen Challenge centers where available. If a computer is not available, prisoners may write us for assistance, letting us know if they can be paroled out of state.
Web site - misslink.org
Chapel Site: misslink.org/chapel2.html
Updated March 17, 2024
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