GROVE CITY, Pa. – President of Prison Fellowship and former Virginia Attorney General Dr. Mark Earley will speak at the 2007 Christian Life Conference March 27 and 28 in Harbison Chapel on the Grove City College campus. Earley will speak at the 9:30 a.m. chapel service March 27 and at 7 p.m. March 27 and 28. The three presentations are free and open to the public.

Earley, also a former Virginia state senator, became president and chief executive officer of Lansdowne, Va.-based Prison Fellowship in 2002. He oversees the national ministry founded by Charles Colson in 1976, which has since spread to 108 countries in addition to the United States. Prison Fellowship works with thousands of churches and volunteers across the U.S. to disciple prisoners and prepare them to re-enter the community; to minister year-round to prisoners’ children through Christmas, camping and mentoring programs.

Additionally, Earley serves as chairman of Operation Starting Line, a multi-ministry, interdenominational outreach to prisoners in America that is helping the local and in-prison church provide in-prison evangelistic events, ongoing inmate mentoring and post-prison assistance for ex-prisoners and their families. He has also served in campus ministry at the University of the Philippines in Manila and in the U.S. at the West Chester University in Pennsylvania and at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

Earley practiced law for fifteen years in Norfolk, Va. He served in the Virginia State Senate for 10 years and served as the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1998-2001.

A graduate of the College of William and Mary, Earley earned a bachelor’s degree in religion and a juris doctor degree from Marshall-Wythe School of Law.