• Celebrate Recovery services • Monthly or occasional RC-specific services • “Welcome Home” worship service • Lifting up RC challenges and successes in worship, prayers • Prison chaplain as guest preacher • One non-profit in FL started a worshiping community on-site after a returning citizen who’d been a sex-offender was turned away at 18 churches he phoned.
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80% have regular prayer ministry to lift up needs of RCs
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Estimate of number of RCs congregation engages with per year: 1-5: 29%; 6-10: 16%; More than 10: 55% Estimate of number of congregational staff and volunteers currently involved in reentry ministry: 1-5: 70%; 6-10: 7%; More than 10: 23% 56% offer a peer support program where RCs minister to each other 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%
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