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44% organize “circles of support” or a “reentry team” through which congregation members can help minister to RCs 67% offer other fellowship opportunities where RCs can build per- sonal relationships with congregation members, for example: • Celebrate Recovery • small groups • sponsorships and encouraging relationship-building • integration into life of congregation (RCs lean toward contem- porary rather than traditional worship) • part of encouraging everyone in congregation to build relation- ships • meals and visitations • men’s group • outreach ministries • non-RC-specific intentionality about relationships across so- cio-economic and cultural lines • fellowship not as events but as living life together • Simply Church • monthly mixer events Actively network and partner with other reentry services and reen- try coalitions to better serve RCs, learn best practices, provide mu- tual support, etc., with this regularity: • Actively engaged on a weekly basis: 28% • Actively engaged on a monthly or quarterly basis: 22% • Only occasionally: 31% • We don’t actively network with others: 19% 42% of congregational reentry ministries have a special name: • Renew/Youth Collective/Connect/Turning Point/Forward • Celebrate Recovery • Restorative Justice Ministry • Hand Up to Victory • AIM CENTER Jesus Loves Me Club • Last Door, Inc. 501(c)(3), also branded curriculum called “God Made Real Ministries” • Restoration Groups • Welcome Home • Inspiration Ministries • Community Recovery International • Rescued Not Arrested • GATE Outreach Ministries
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