Reentry that Works!
Remember those in prison as if you were in prison with them. Hebrews 13:3
Our caring volunteers train, console, and mentor into wholeness people both in and out of long-term incarceration. Choose what you can do:
2nd Chance Indiana envisions having, in each of the Hoosier state's 92 counties, at least one Church Prayer Partner, a church group actively praying for those incarcerated in our state's prisons and jails as well as for the work of 2nd Chance Indiana and that of our partners. We'll provide your church's prayer group leader with the names of people who need to be lifted up in prayer, including those who are preparing to reenter the outside world as well as some who are facing multiple years of incarceration and others who don't expext to ever again set foot outside the walls of the correctional facility.
If you're interested in exploring the possibility of your church prayer team becoming a 2nd Chance Indiana Church Prayer Partner, please either email info@2ndChanceIN.com or you can reach us through our Contact page.
Either way, please put Church Prayer Partnership in the subject line.
We’ll connect you via the mail to an inmate who has asked for somebody to write to him or her. We’ll give you the guidelines that will help you to be comfortable corresponding with the inmate. No face-to-face or telephone contact is necessary unless you decide to call or visit.
A volunteer mentor (same sex) can go inside the corrections facility:
Not all corrections facilities allow mentors inside. In this case video chats are arranged to start the relationship development process prior to release,
A mentor walks alongside his or her mentee as he or she completes a job preparation training course, develops an understanding of his or her true value as a human being, and learns how to successfully transition from a life of day to day survival into an atmosphere of teamwork in the workplace. Then, volunteers continue to provide encouragement and guidance for a minimum of 90 days following the reentrant’s release from incarceration. Volunteers should strive to be there for friendship, advice, emotional (not financial) support, encouragement, and as a source of contacts as the mentee reconnects with his or her family or finds housing elsewhere, gets a job, and begins the process of rebuilding his or her life.
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.
1 Peter 4:10
For even The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Mark 10:45
The King will reply, "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."
Matthew 25:40