Active Programs
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- Kairos Retreat at Dixon Correctional Institute (DCI)
- Two of our parishioners, Ted Stacey and Mark Truxillo, have joined Kairos and will be an active leaders in future retreats to build church inside prisons.
- Usually those retreats occur twice a year. See the DCI # 9 Retreat Testimonial to get a better feel for the powerful healing impact these retreats and support items can have.
- Because of covid-19, the LA DOC has stopped all voluntary visits to prisons. The next 3 day retreat wll probably be in spring of 2021. If DOC allows it, we may do 1 day retreats or day of prayer sooner.
- Parish Support Services lead, Jackie Appleton, coordinates a very large effort to gather Kairos Agape: bake cookies, write anonymous support letters and build a personalized prayer chain for the 42 inmates on a 3 day retreat at DCI.
- 24th JDC Re-entry Court Mentor program – 10 of our members are involved as mentors to reduce recidivism and help selected probationers rebuild their lives.
- See the Community at the Gate Testimonial
- We were blessed with a great recent Clarion Herald article:
- There is an online Life Coach training of several hours required to become a mentor. Once you are assigned a mentee, you will receive a phone call about once a week from your mentee, typically 5-10 minutes. You are asked for a 2 year committment to this program.
- Prison Youth Ministry
- This is a very exciting direction led by member Ryan Gallagher. Ryan is principal of Brother Martin High School. He is also reaching out to other area high schools as well as youth programs at SCS. This effort is both ministry to the incarcerated and education to our youth to increase their compassionate awareness.
- A great summary of his efforts was in a recent Clarion article: https://clarionherald.org/2019/01/23/brother-martin-students-call-to-mind-the-imprisoned/
- Kairos Retreat at Dixon Correctional Institute (DCI)