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Prison-related Christian Ministries... for Indianapolis, IN...

Here's a related SECULAR wiki-page re Ex-offender Issues & Solutions.

Connect for prayer, dialog and solutions?  Currently a number of Re-entry-related Leaders are meeting bi-weekly at the Unleavened Bread Cafe.  Contact dgushee@sbcglobal.net for more info.

Recent Event... June 2008 (Martin Univ Gathetorium)... 'Town Hall Meeting' sponsored by Dept of Corrections Director, David Donahue.

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Best Practices for Ex-Offender Programs (per UrbanMinistry.org) 

Indianapolis Star article... Mayor Ballard & ex-offender programs

(Btw, here's an interesting prison-related innovator's speech as she addressed the recent Q conference.)

Prison-related Ministry Links, etc...

• Prison Fellowship Ministry (Charles Colson, Founder).... Willie Jenkins, Indiana Director  (RECENT ARTICLE)
• Jesus Inside Prison Ministries... ('Jesus House') William Bumphus, Founder, Indianapolis
• Kairos Prison Ministries...
• Grace Place (Indianapolis) for ex-offenders.  (contact Dan G.)
• Peter's House (Indianapolis) co-op for homeless & ex-offenders.
• Lee Ladd and Rick Hall
• Brian Shobe (Indy East)
• Nick Bolden, Shepherd Community
• Bob Blume (Promise Keepers director for Indiana) has a great program in Anderson.  Man4ManMinistries.com. 
• Good News Ministries -- Indianapolis
• Westside Community Ministries (ex-offender program).
• Use What You've Got Ministry (Cecelia Whitfield... transportation ministry for visiting family-members in prison)
• PrisonMinistry.com -- a national resource.... connector.... and egroup.
• Second Chance -- Rudy Hightower -- Construction Apprenticeship Program
• Dr. Bud Ford (Dayton, OH)... author and cityreacher involved in transformation via prison ministry.  Public link.
• Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church has an outreach program you can see via IndianaReentry.org.  [search RESOURCES there]
• Also see The Christmas Group (blog)... Rev. Melvin Fleming.  Also see our new book... "Mission-POSSIBLE: Faith-Based Mentoring"
• "Tony Dungy encourages you to mentor a prisoner"
• Here's the direct link to IFI's page re Dungy initiative.
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Secular or Faith-based Links...

•  Indiana Dept of Corrections, David Donahue, Director 
• 7/11/2007 announcement of ex-offender work program (Mayor Peterson)
• Choices Team -- A Faith-based Care-team-per-exoffender Concept

Helpful Links...

• Recidivism -- an overview at Wikipedia

Other 'PRISON' related tagged items

(Needs a lot of work here... but it'll be greatly worth it, to collect such an informational page... and help all these leaders get to know each other and be able to work together in some practical ways.  Don't forget, this will impact our 'State of the Church at Indianapolis' report.  We want to specially consider community-ministries having to do with the whole crime issue.  Someone wanna help edit this page in a big way?????)

former page of Indianapolis prison-related links

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Keywords:  ex-offender ex-offenders prison jail reentry re-entry program crime peace