Holly Springs Cop Spreads the Gospel

Code-4, Holly Springs. Everything is OK.

What started as a gift from another church has turned into a life mission for Brian Cain. Two years ago, First Baptist Church of Woodstock gifted all of the with a Bible.

From there, Cain, a Holly Springs police officer decided to give all of the Cherokee County police officers and a Bible as his way to share the gospel.

The Bible collection is part of a larger project, "Code-4 Ministries," which Cain founded to reach the law enforcement officers who had a bad perception of religion. Code-4 is police jargon for "Everything is OK," a message Cain promotes to the men and women who come to the monthly meetings.

"I'm called to reach cops who have given up on God and have been burned by church," Cain said.

Police officers are a hard group to minister to, Cain said. Somewhere between respect and fear that they'll give you a speeding ticket, people have become afraid to speak about religion with them.

Still, these are the men and women on the street who see the most heartache and terror.

"It's like Paul Harvey said, 'A police officer must know where all the sin is and not partake."

Cain doesn't come with talk of Heaven and Hell or fire and damnation. The focus of his words, actions and lifestyle revolves around the one fact that he loves you.

"They need to at least know there are people who will accept them and love them," Cain said about the non-Christian police officers.

His goal for the Bibles is just to give one to each officer to carry in his gear bag that sits next to him in the patrol car, Cain said.

"Police officers are exposed to traumatic events every single day," Cain said. "Traumatic events that on a regular basis shut people down."

Code 4 ministries meet once a month on Cain's day off. He said he's never had any backlash from non-Christian officers, and that the only people to ever speak negatively about the ministry were Christians.

They'll be meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in the . While anyone is invited to attend, the sermon will be centered on things that police officers deal with and will include jargon from their everyday life, Cain said.

How you can help:

Cain collected more than 65 Bibles during his first month, but there are 500 officers in the county. Each Bible, a special edition for law enforcement, costs about $3 and can be ordered from the Bibles for Cops website. Cain stresses that donations are not made to the ministry, but rather you purchase the Bible yourself and it is shipped to them. You can also find them on Facebook.