Who is involved - Christian Prison Ministries

This is a partial list of some of the people currently involved with the Beto Unit program, either directly or indirectly. You are encouraged to read their information below and invited to click on links to their web sites. The links will open in an additional screen so you don't have to worry about losing this site.

The following list is in alphabetic order.

Alpha
Casey Miner
Celebrate Recovery
Dallas Preston North Lions Club
Diocese of the Holy Trinity
Jesus Fishhook Co.
Kairos
KG Communication
King of Glory Fellowship
New Wilderness Adventures

Through an interdenominational national network of over 8300 churches, which regularly conduct the Alpha Course, Christians are sharing their life changing experiences with inmates in our nations prisons & jails.

Jack Cowley - National Director. Jack retired with 30 years of service from the State of Oklahoma Department of Corrections. The majority of his career with the state was as a prison warden where he served in that capacity at three facilities.

www.alphausa.org/prisons/

Bishop Casey Miner is the Suffragan Bishop of The Anglican Province of Christ the Good Shepherd coordinating prison ministry for the province.

Bishop Casey is the coordinator of a faith based wing at the George Beto Unit. Many organizations, ministries, and churches are collaborating with Alpha USA to facilitate this ministry. The wing has 198 beds and will be dedicated to fostering spiritual growth and leadership among the participants

Casey is a co-founder of “Jesus Fishhook Co. LLC” along with Stu Johnson (now sole principal) to employ recently released inmates and other disenfranchised people. Jesus Fishhook LLC is the holding company for several businesses.

www.faithbeto.org casey@faithbeto.org

The purpose of Saddleback Church's Celebrate Recovery ministry is to fellowship and celebrate God's healing power in our lives through the "8 Recovery Principles." This experience allows us to "be changed."

Pastor John Baker, founder

www.celebraterecovery.com

Diocese of the Holy Trinity - (The Anglican Province of Christ the Good Shepherd)

The Diocese of the Holy Trinity is a member of the the Anglican Province of Christ the Good Shepherd. The Diocese of the Holy Trinity encompasses the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. We are a continuing Anglican Church that holds to the 39 Articles of Faith, the Chicago Quadirilateral, and other tenents of the Anglican Faith. We hold to the three streams of the Convergence Movement - Charismatic, Biblical and Liturgical. We welcome all in the name of Christ. For those parishes/ministries who would be interested in joining us, you are welcomed to contact the Bishop.

Rt. Rev. A. Jimmy Broussard

http://www.forministry.com/USLAAPCTKCOTHS/

“Jesus Fishhook Co. LLC” is a company created to employ recently released inmates and other disenfranchised people. Jesus Fishhook LLC is the holding company for several businesses, Wood World, and Enviro Technologies are the largest.

Chief Operating Officer: Stu Johnson. Co-founder Casey Miner.

http://jesusfishhook.org/

See an interview with Stu and Casey click HeartBeat. (Note you can click play or save to your harddrive. File size 25.3 mb and depending on your connection, it may take a little while to extract. Then you will need to click "Excerpts from the show" Also Note: Interview is 17 minutes long, the first 4 minutes is the introduction of the TV show.)

Kairos of Texas operates as a State Chapter and serves in prisons and Jails through a contractual agreement with the Warden and Chaplain of each unit. At present, we are in thirty-five units (prisons & jails) across the State of Texas (we are opening more units from time to time). We are blessed also to have four locations where we minister to family members with the Kairos Outside Ministry.

We form teams of Christians who become TDCJ Certified Volunteers to serve at TDCJ Units. When we serve we become guests of the Units and are given many privileges because we have such a positive impact on the inmates. We accept forty-two inmates per weekend, and put on two weekends per year, in each unit. The selection at each Unit of the residents who are to attend our weekends is made by the Warden and the Chaplain, with input from the Security.

Texas Chairperson: Bob Bunch

www.kairosoftexas.org/

Hello everyone. I am your webmaster. I am the owner\operator of KG Communications (formerly Knowledge Graphics). Sounds quite impressive doesn't it. It really just means that I work for myself as a consultant to organizations as a technical writer and information specialist. This site is one of my first forays into creating HTML pages from scratch (usually I'm writing in a publishing tool and then converting to an output form). That being said I hope you experts out there will forgive my simplest code.

I hope to help make this site as useful and relevent as it can be so please write to me any suggestions, criticisms, or questions. kirk@beto.org

Owner: Kirk Gonzalez

www.kirkgonzalez.com Wiki: http://technicalwriter.wikispaces.com

King of Glory Fellowship can best be described as a "full gospel, liturgical church." We use the Anglican liturgy as a basic structure, ancient and modern worship music, all with a definite sense of freedom. Our goal is to glorify God, proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ, to make disciples, heal the sick, cast out demons, and stand on the Word of God. We will in everything do our best to be the New Testament Church as described in the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles. We are empowered and lead by the Holy Spirit.

Rector: Stu Johnson

www.kogf.org

WE SERVE - Mission Statement of Lions Clubs International:

“To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community involvement and international cooperation.”

http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/index.shtml

God created man with a desire for adventure and risk as a part of his spirit. We have not effectively appealed to these desires in traditional Christian settings. It is our goal in Man Adventures to use the excitement and attraction of outdoor adventure to get the man's attention who is either totally absent from the traditional church or who is there but is bored and uninvolved.

Founder: Barry Strickland