[ROVERNET - UK] OT Prison

[Fritz Rauschenberg]

Now, Brooks, how do you know that?? Are you trying to throw ice water on a
great ministry?

Fritz Rauschenberg
wfritz at mindspring.com
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> [Original Message]
> From: Brooks <restore at nbnet.nb.ca>
> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
> Date: 10/9/2007 1:56:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] OT Prison
>
>
>
>   You are to be commended for your warmth and caring....however in many 
> cases these criminals already found God at their bail hearings or trial.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kent Kinard" <kkinard at wcc.net>
> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:33 PM
> Subject: [ROVERNET - UK] OT Prison
>
>
> > On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:31:31 -0400
> >  S Manwell <s_manwell at alum.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
> >> Well, Bill Robertson beat us to the master cylinder punch, but I hate
to 
> >> let the prison comment go by.  Hmm, let's see:  a Texan figure of
speech? 
> >> A sacrifice for a good cause?
> >>
> > No, literally.  Twice a year I do a prison ministry called Kairos.  We
go 
> > in on Thursday afternoon and finish Sunday afternoon.  There is some 
> > teaching, group discussion, singing and dancing, and sharing faith 
> > stories.  Some of these men simply have never had the experience of
being 
> > loved unconditionally.  The team takes turns going back on Thursday of 
> > each week for Prayer and Share.  It is a pretty substantial commitment. 
> > The team is ecumenical, but a little heavy on the Right Wing.  I try to 
> > keep them more in the middle theologically.  I was the head spiritual 
> > director for this one.
> >
> > Roverecidivisticly,
> > (recidivism-technical term for the tendency to return to prison instead
of 
> > staying out.  Most prison systems have a high recidivism rate. Some
people 
> > find the high degree of choice involved in living in the free world to
be 
> > threatening and uncomfortable and find the regimentation of prison life 
> > more comfortable.  They can't wait to get out, but making a successful 
> > transition is hard and violating parole is easy.  The term is usually 
> > applied to those who are incarcerated, but in this case, it is jokingly 
> > applied to those of us who are hooked on prison ministry.)
> > Kent K.
> >
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