Prisoners In Christ

Dates set for Book Group

June 7, 2017 / 0 comments

Please consider coming to 1,2,3 or all of the discussion gatherings at Hope Church in June and July. Troy is looking forward to starting with a good-sized group of good news people! book-study-group.pdf

Book Group on Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times by Howard Zehr.

June 5, 2017 / 0 comments

In partnership with Micah Center and the Restorative Justice Coalition of West Michigan, Prisoners in Christ is offering a book group led by Troy Rienstra, of Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times. by Howard Zehr. To sign up, e-mail troyrienstra112@gmail.com.

Shane Claiborne, Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us

March 4, 2016 / 0 comments

Shane Claiborne, author of the forthcoming book Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us, will be speaking at Calvin College on Monday evening, March 7, in the Covenant Fine Arts Center Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. This is a free and open to the public event, so come early to be…

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Locked in Solidarity Prayer Breakfast, Vigil, and Walk Feb. 11

February 5, 2016 / 0 comments

The third annual Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) national “Locked In Solidarity prayer vigil of lament, hope and stories as we seek the Lord regarding a Christian response to Mass Incarceration” takes place on Thursday, February 11. In the Grand Rapids area there are three events to which the public is invited. 1. A Prayer Breakfast from…

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Locked In Solidarity February 11

January 27, 2016 / 0 comments

Join Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) practitioners and friends throughout the country on Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Locked in Solidarity “national prayer vigil of lament, hope and stories as we seek the Lord regarding a Christian response to Mass Incarceration.” One way to engage with this movement: Join COS Prisoners in Christ from 8-9…

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2005-2015

May 4, 2015 / 0 comments

Thank you for your prayers for the work of Prisoners in Christ. We can only imagine what the Lord has in store as we continue the work that has began more than a decade ago. Here are examples of how God has used us so far on this journey: published a newsletter by and for…

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Ignite the Fire

April 18, 2015 / 0 comments

One of the dogs in the Greyhound Inmate Experience program is named “Ignite the Fire.” This and many of the recovered greyhounds are adoptable. Check out www.tgie-greyhounds.org

Evidence of God at Work Around Us

March 20, 2015 / 0 comments

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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The 13th (of March)

March 12, 2015 / 0 comments

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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Good books for 2015

February 14, 2015 / 0 comments

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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