This week is wrapping up with a Prisoners in Christ meeting at COS, 30 students from Grand Haven High School coming to visit and talk with formerly incarcerated Proud Fathers, and tomorrow’s meeting of Citizens for Prison Reform in Lansing. It started out with a Bach program in the Calvin Chapel, followed by 3 “visitations”…

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On Friday, March 13th, 5 months before Troy’s 46th birthday, Rich and I will be sitting in the visiting room at Lakeland Correctional Facility talking with our son for a couple hours. We will try to be positive about the future – discussing plans to get letters of support together for the Parole Eligibility Review (PER)…

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This is a list of the books that, along with the Bible,  have shaped the work of Prisoners in Christ and guided PiC founder and member TR as he follows Jesus and leads others to do the same: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. Edited by James M. Washington//…

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The PinC team is thankful for the unsolicited contributions that very special friends gave to the Prisoners in Christ ministry at the end of 2014. Because of their faithful support we are able to continue work such as: 1. Sending volunteers to R.A. Handlon prison in Ionia every Wednesday evening for Life Change Group –…

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A discussion of “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, hearing the author Bryan Stevenson speak at the January Series, hanging a couple of Troy’s paintings for the COS members’ art show – this week is rich with possibilities. The cold weather can’t stop us!

We came up with challenges most every day of this very unusual week – events canceled left and right because of the snow. So, lots of time to think and read and talk and watch – about the implications of this, a quote from pg. 64 of “Locked Down, Locked Out” by Maya Schenwar: What…

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The newsletter that Prisoners in Christ published for 5 years was called “Our Generation.” I was reminded of it this morning when I read Clayton Hardiman’s column in the Nov. 2, 2014 GR Press, p. H3 “We keep losing the very ones we need.” I ran into the lost generation in the grocery store. It…

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On Saturday, Nov. 8, at Hope Reformed Church, 2010 Kalamazoo, the American Friends Service Committee Michigan Criminal Justice Program will provide training for their Good Neighbor Project. This new program is developing a co-mentoring program — connecting long-time prisoners with outside persons/businesses/organizations so that, over time, they can develop positive relationships that will still be…

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