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Spiritual Resources
Spiritual Resources provides information about faith-based organizations, services, & opportunities of benefit to those reentering society from incarceration. The page will not prosetylize. It will strive to include views of all religious denominations, sects, & practices in their relations to reentry. Please communicate suggestions to rseidel1@rochester.rr.com. Also, check out Bob Crystal's prison ministry blog at Prison Ministry Reflections.
Contents: [Principles][Being Mindful][Reentry & Faith Organizations][A Word][Services & Programs][Resources]
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Principles: We recognize & affirm:
1. The humanity of each person & reveal it in our work.
2. The power of hope & activities designed to increase its
possibilities.
3. The promise of forgiveness.
4. Personal & on-going spiritual relationships.
5. The grace of compassion, charity, & honesty in all relationships.
6. The spirit of open-heartedness, fair-mindedness, & acceptance
among persons of all religious demonimations, sects,
& practices in our work & communities. [Top]
Being Mindful
"Remember those in prison, as if you were there with them, and those who are being maltreated, for you are vulnerable too." Hebrews 13:3.
"When they kept on asking him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone at her." John 8:7.
[Note: Please submit additional inspirational passages from sacred & other literature of all faiths.] [Top]
Reentry & Faith Organizations
Click here for Reentry Resources & Services, with many reentry services marked "FB" (provided by individual faith-based organizations & coalitions). See SMART Members for similar information. [Top]
A Further Word about Faith, Incarceration, and Rentry: Strong & warm relationships with faith communities positively benefit incarcerated & reentering persons in terms of well-being and achieving success after release. Good documentary evidence supports this with regard to Christian & Islamic ministries. Other faith affiliations are likely to yield similar effects in the United States although there is less public information about them. Most penal institutions allow, and indeed may encourage, faith group interaction with incarcerated people. Furthermore, each correctional institution & the state & county jurisdictions involved have diverse policies & procedures concerning these activities. [Top]
Religious Services and Programs with spiritual focus, see, among others:
"FB"--> Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, Prison Reentry & Aftercare Ministry. Phone: 585-334-1110 (St. Peter's Church); PRAM headquarters: 585-442-3544 (St. Thomas' Church); PRAM coordination with Monroe County Department of Social Services: 585-254-6790.
"FB"--> Greater Rochester Community of Churches.
"FB"--> Hope Initiatives, CDC. Mission to address material, behavioral, & spiritual poverty in lives of adults, youth, & children. [Top]
"FB"--> Judicial Process Commission. Programs include Faith Community Adult Mentoring Program (FCAMP) for incarcerated & reentering persons.
"FB"--> Project URGE.
"FB"--> Rochester Interfaith Jail Ministry. Contact: Bob Crystal, 2 Riverside St., Rochester 14613; 585-254-6790; crys24634@aol.com or
PRAM@frontiernet.net. An ecumenical association of lay ministers.
"FB"--> Salvation Army, with services at 3 locations (60 Liberty Pole Way, 100 West Ave., and 915 N. Clinton Ave.).
"FB"--> Saving Grace Ministries Rochester, Inc. and its Grace House Rochester for men.
"FB"--> Spiritus Christi Church, home of Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach, programs for women & men. [Top]
"FB"--> St. Matthew's Missionary Baptist Church, 333 Sixth St., Rochester, NY 14605. Sunday School 10 am & worship at 11 am & 6 pm; Wed. prayers at 6 pm; Thurs. Bible study 6-7 pm; Fri. service 6 pm. Pastor Evelyn Penn is a member of SMART.
"FB"--> Find places of worship at "Churches" in the Yellow Pages. [Top]
Resources:
"FB" "Reentry Partnerships: A Guide for States & Faith-Based and Community Organizations," a 12/18/08 publication of the Council of State Governments Justice Center. "[P]ractical recommendations for how state government officials and community-based service providers" can better serve persons leaving incarceration. 66-page booklet is available free for download or upon request online. [Aso listed at Research & The Big Picture.] [Top]
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