In September we brought together community stakeholders across Arkansas to host a conference, in partnership with Prison Fellowship, the Department of Community Correction, and the Arkansas Department of Correction. The purpose of the event was to get educated, equipped, and networked to reduce recidivism (rate of return to prison).
Several hundred local and State agency employees [...]
Dec
13
2009
13
2009
Out4Life Conference Videos
Oct
24
2009
24
2009
Locked Up Talent
Bob Snider loves art. Loves creating it himself and helping others do the same. For the last two years, as a part of Fellowship’s annual art festival, Bob has encouraged some incarcerated men and women to create pieces for the show. I was with him yesterday in the Hawkins women’s unit as he received this year’s [...]
Oct
12
2009
12
2009
The Good Life
I attended chapel at Arkansas Baptist College last week where one of our guys in the pilot program that has 10 inmates from the Dept of Community Correction attending college at ABC gave a message on the good life.
The sound is a bit spotty (taped with my phone), but well worth the listen. It gets [...]
Oct
9
2009
9
2009
Tashonda’s Freedom
This post by FBC member Rita O’Kelley.
FREEDOM!!!
My name is Rita. I don’t carry a badge (think Joe Friday and Dragnet) I am a prison ministry volunteer. I’ve been “in” for three years and am now OUT. I’m out because God released Tashonda Whitlock today, September 8, 2009.
He told me to be a mentor [...]
Sep
21
2009
21
2009
Not Your Average College Boys
Nine months of collaboration and developing relationships of trust have resulted in a new program
that allows 10 residents incarcerated in the Arkansas Department of Community Correction to attend Arkansas Baptist College at no cost to the State.
These 10 men take college reading, writing, and arithmetic MWF mornings and Personal and Social Development on TU/TH as well as life [...]
Jun
18
2009
18
2009
Six Thousand Arkansans Leaving Prison - Will They Be Out4Life?
Each month 500 people return to Arkansas communities from our prisons.
We’re partnering with Prison Fellowship, the Department of Community Correction, and the Arkansas Department of Correction to educate, equip, and network community stakeholders to help ex-offenders stay Out4Life by hosting an event planned to start a movement of regional coalitions of community stakeholders partnering to [...]
