• Christmas gifts • encouraging families to worship together
What Else? Q36:
58% engage with RCs in ways not yet mentioned in the survey: • Try to help RCs find work opportunities • Inmates are able to call our organization collect for registration for services and house • Placement prior to release • Social media • Church-planting internship for inmates trained in prison • We work with a men’s halfway house and a halfway house for single mothers • We are hands-on, raw, in the streets, jails and prisons, advocates serving the system for the benefit of those reentering, in high- touch, personal relationships with them, in every way we can. (This congregation has a formerly justice-involved pastor.) • We listen. • Advocate for state policies and laws Reentry Wisdom from the Front Lines—Successes, Challenges, Dreams Q45: Most successful aspects of your congregation’s reentry ministries: • Sponsorships • Spiritual Formation • Step studies change people’s hearts as they grow closer to God. • FIT (Family Integrity Training) program has two dedicated vol- unteers. • We have a decent pen pal program. We are working to grow and develop to offer a full range of services. We just need partners like Inside Out Network to help us grow. • Family Integrity Training at the Dream Center. It is designed to meet RCs’ needs. • Our organization is extremely successful in every aspect. We are seeing a 70% success rate for those we assist. • We do not have a formal reentry ministry. The Lord has opened the door for us to do in-prison ministry. For now, we have cho- sen to stay in that lane and be aware of other churches with re- entry ministries. • If we have someone going through re-entry who expresses a de- sire for support, through our counseling ministry we would get
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