December 17, 2020
(BRAZIL) – Leaders of the Indiana Sheriffs’ Youth Ranch for future law enforcement officers, at-risk kids, young witnesses, and victims of crime have named Pastor Phil Ping of Indianapolis as the not-for-profit’s volunteer senior chaplain.
Phil Ping
Ping, a minister at Joyful Manna Ministries, will head inter-denominational faith programming and coordinate personal items wanted and needed by teens attending overnight visits, weekend retreats, and post-COVID weeklong leadership academies at the 62-acre training retreat.
A U.S. Army veteran and graduate of the Colorado Theological Seminary, Ping is both a successful business and faith leader in Central Indiana. He founded, owned and operated Ping Tree Service, Indiana’s largest family-owned business of its type. He also established Joyful Manna Baptist Fellowship, which features a daycare ministry, a memorial legacy to his late wife. Ping’s missionary work has taken him to Eastern Europe a