![]() One of the ways that everyone can help is with PRAYER, and there are a couple of ways of doing it. Several people have asked about other ways of supporting the Kairos ministry weekend retreat being held at RJ Donovan Correctional Institute over the weekend. Thank you for your support of this powerful ministry! ![]() (Start now and it’s an easy task to write one a short letter a day between now and the weekend.) Each short letter/note must be handwritten. If you (or a group you belong to) can take the time to write 36 short letters of love and encouragement for the candidates. For some it is the first mail they have ever received from anyone on the outside. The effect these letters of LOVE and PRAYERS have on the candidates is unbelievable. That same weekend there are also ten other men’s weekends throughout the United States and five women’s weekends and one Kairos Outside weekend for women related to incarcerated men that could be included in your prayers.ĭuring the course of the weekend each inmate candidate receives a bag full of AGAPE mail from team members and other outside people who choose to write letters. Pray for all those who may have baked cookies for the weekend or wrote Agape letters for the candidates. ![]() Prayers could be included for the inmates participating, the inmates on the inside team, the prison staff and administration staff, the staff chaplains and yard pastors, the families of the inmates involved, the outside team that comes into the prison, and their families. You would simply spend some time during your assigned hour and pray for the weekend. Contact the church office for this applicationįor those of you who would like to make the commitment to pray for the upcoming Kairos Weekend at RJ Donovan, there is an internet link where you can sign up for an hour time slot during the weekend. If would like to attend, you must submit an application request. The Praise and Worship experience and hearing the candidates’ individual testimonies about their weekend experience is powerful. For men this is a wonderful way to see first-hand the results of the weekend for the candidates and “try the ministry on.” It is also an opportunity for women to participate and show their support for the ministry. ![]() This opportunity is available to anyone (male or female) who is eighteen years old or older. If you would like to color some or have a group that would like to, please contact the church office. The placemats hold special meaning for the candidates and many will remove them from the table to make sure they don’t get any food spilled on them and then take them to the cell as a special remembrance of the weekend. Our Sunday School children color placemats that will be part of the three meals taken into the prison. Please see and follow the instructions here. There are specific instructions to follow in the baking and packaging process since the cookies are being brought into a prison. You can bake now and freeze them or bake just in time to get them to the church. Our cookie donations the last two weekends have enabled us to give cookies to every resident at Donovan. ![]() The cookies are many times the one thing that will cause an inmate to accept the invitation to attend the weekend, so they play a vital part in the success of the weekend. Here are all the instructions for participating in this ministry. Please deliver cookies to Foothills on Sunday March 17th during worship. ![]()
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