Good Samaritan Ministry - Part 3
Good Samaritan Ministry - Part 3
This session builds on several Every Second Saturday sessions to provide a framework for ministry with crime victims and survivors. Part 3 provides resources, tools, approaches and opportunities for deeper growth in your restorative justice, care ministry and Stephen Ministry victim/survivor care responses. This interactive session incorporates ODRC Victim Awareness case studies, the Stephen Ministry model of care, restorative practices and personal experiences.
A FREE digital participants guidebook for personal growth and ministry development is located below as a downloadable PDF.
Presenters:
Jami Nathan, All In Community Leadership Team and Stephen Ministry Leader
Karri Lewis, All In Community Leadership Team and Survivor
Good Samaritan Ministry - Part 1
Good Samaritan Ministry - Part 1
This session builds on several Every Second Saturday sessions to provide a framework for ministry with crime victims and survivors. Part 1 lays the foundation for why victim care should be a priority for justice-involved ministry and offers a deeper understanding of who victims are in our communities and the unique spiritual, emotional and relational needs victims have. This session's focus on on immediate care needs and appropriate immediate care responses.
A FREE digital participants guidebook for personal growth and ministry development is located below as a downloadable PDF.
Presenters:
Jami Nathan, All In Community Leadership Team and Stephen Ministry Leader
Karri Lewis, All In Community Leadership Team and Survivor
EVERY SECOND Saturday Series: Trauma-informed Ministry, Part 2
EVERY SECOND Saturday Series: Trauma-informed Ministry, Part 2
Part 2 of our Trauma-informed Ministry series provides an understanding of developmental trauma, explains effects of trauma on the developing brain, provides best practices and interventions for working with young persons affected by trauma and information and opportunities to practice four coping strategies and grounding techniques to use when experiencing stress.
Presentation slides are available below as a downloadable PDF.
Presenters:
Kathy Kaufman, Gilboa UMC Restored Citizen
Pastor Ruth Carter-Crist, Gilboa/Pandora UMC
EVERY SECOND SATURDAY SERIES: Trauma-informed Ministry, Part 1 Communities of Healing, Part 1
Introduction to Trauma-Informed Ministry, Part 1 – Trauma seems to be all around us- in the news, in our communities, and in our churches. It is certainly part of justice-involvement. The Trauma Informed Ministry (TIM) series was created for ministry leaders- lay and clergy. Part 1 is designed to help participants understand what trauma is and its impact, recovery from it, and protecting volunteers and staff from developing vicarious trauma.
Presentation slides are available below as a downloadable PDF.
Presenters:
Kathy Kaufman, Gilboa UMC Restored Citizen
Pastor Ruth Carter-Crist, Gilboa/Pandora UMC
EVERY SECOND SATURDAY SERIES - Creating Communities of Healing, Part 2
This session continues the continuum of care in the Healing Communities framework for supporting successful reentry. Healing Communities is a restorative justice approach for ministry with incarcerated men and women, their families, and the larger community. This session provides real, tangible ministry steps you can take to walk with persons and family members through their lived experiences of reentry and reintegration into family and community through mobilizing existing resources.
Presentation slides are available below as a downloadable PDF. A complete Healing Communities Manual is available upon request. Contact Reba Collins at allincommunity@wocumc.org with your request.
Presenters:
James Clay, Grace UMC Restored Citizen
Jami Nathan, Olive Branch/Clarksville UMC
EVERY SECOND SATURDAY SERIES - Creating Communities of Healing, Part 1
This session introduces participants to the Healing Communities framework. Healing Communities is a restorative justice approach for ministry with incarcerated men and women, their families, and the larger community. This national training model helps congregations, through mobilization of their existing resources, to walk with persons through this lived experiences of incarceration. In addition, the presenters provide real, tangible ministry steps you can take to be the healing hands and feet of Jesus with justice-involved persons.
Presentation slides are available below as a downloadable PDF. A complete Healing Communities Manual is available upon request. Contact Reba Collins at allincommunity@wocumc.org with your request.
Presenters:
James Clay, Grace UMC Restored Citizen
Reba Collins, All In Community Consultant
Cultivating Your Call to Justice-involved Ministry, Part 3
Parts 1 & 2 prepared you to navigate today’s complexity and highly connectional ministry/organizational context. This is session brings it all together with practical tips and tools for seeking common ground and bridging across cultural difference to transformative relationships.
Join us for this session where we apply restorative practices, trauma-healing techniques, emotional intelligence strategies, and culturally aware bridging skills that prepare you to push through to - not push back from - a more comprehensive approach for justice-focused ministry.
A FREE digital participants workbook full of tools for personal growth and ministry development is located below as a downloadable PDF.
Cultivating Your Call to Justice-involved Ministry, Part 2
Part-one of this series prepared you to navigate today’s complexity in justice-involved ministry. Part 2 prepares you to navigate in a highly connectional ministry/organizational context. Seeing the person you're looking at; looking past a person's behavior to their being; and suspending judgment of "the other" takes developing culturally competent skills of understanding others. This session helps you really meet people where they are by seeing them where they are.
Join us for this deep dive, so you can be prepared to push through to - not push back from - a more comprehensive approach for justice-focused ministry. This webinar was originally recorded on March 13, 2021.
A FREE digital participants workbook full of tools for personal growth and ministry development is located below as a downloadable PDF.
Presenters:
Reba Collins, Eileen Andrews & Pastor Dave Pennington; from the All In Community Leadership Team
Cultivating Your Call to Justice-involved Ministry, Part 1
Walking with justice-involved persons can happen by choice or by circumstance. This three-part webinar series prepares you for both. This webinar prepares you to navigate today's complexity in justice-involved ministry. Confronted with major cultural challenges or disruptions, don't let your calling of reconciliation, restoration, repair or reintegration get lost in the chaos.
Today's paradigms for justice-focused ministry require more than just new skills. They require a close examination of how we show up as people of faith in this world, but not of this world. Part 1 is a deep dive, so you can be prepared to push through to - not push back from - a more comprehensive approach for justice-focused ministry. This webinar was originally recorded on February 20, 2021
Presenters:
Reba Collins, Eileen Andrews & Pastor Dave Pennington; from the All In Community Leadership Team
The Emerging Justice-involved Ministry Paradigms
What Does it Mean to be Doing Justice-involved Ministry Right Now? Join us for a timely session on the shifting reality of justice-involved ministry. In this session, we uncover the new pandemic-induced ministry paradigms that challenge us toward justice-focused ministry. In addition, this session provides real, tangible next steps you can take to be the healing hands and feet of Jesus with justice-involved persons right now and to develop ministry with an intentional outcome of greater justice for all people in your community. You are invited lean into these new opportunities for “doing justice.”
Presenters:
Dr. Mike Davis, ODRC Religious Services Administrator
Ms. Reba Collins, WOC All In Community Consultant
Volunteering from 6-Feet Away: How to Activate Your Community Volunteers During COVID-19
Originally recorded on June 2, 2020, this is a deep dive with three leaders who are meeting the challenge of keeping volunteers safe in their service and making the most vulnerable feel safe being served. Engaging and mobilizing volunteers in the community is a powerful opportunity to care for our neighbors and build resilience within our community. Join some of West Ohio’s community ministers as they discuss strategies for engaging your church’s and community’s volunteers safely and communicating to your community that you value their safety first. Also, our guest presenters how to tend to the spiritual and emotional needs of volunteers and the vulnerable while serving during the pandemic. Use the Webinar Guide below to assist in planning your next steps. It provides several essential questions to consider before engaging volunteers.
Guest presenters:
Gwyn Stetler, Bellefontaine UMC Community Minister & Family Promise of Delaware County Executive Director
Tonia Wilson, Family Promise of Delaware County Director of Housing and Family Services
Jesse Rourke, Saint Mark’s UMC Resource Center Director & Lima-Allen Counties Neighborhoods in Partnership President.
Navigating Online the Reentry Continuum of Care
In this Webinar, Guest presenter Bethany Friedrichsen, statewide coordinator for ReLink.org walks through how to find resources using the Relink online platform. Relink.org is a free, up-to-date online resource guide for reentry and recovery services across the continuum of care for Ohio. It is used every month by thousands of Ohioans including parole officers, pastors, families, and those directly in need to connect to local organizations. Services listed on the site include everything from addiction treatment and basic needs to employment and free health clinics.
In addition, Bethany walks through how to register your organization as a community resource. Relink.org provides the platform that puts your organization’s ministry and services in front of those who are responsible for managing the continuum of care for recovery and reentry in Ohio.
Mentoring Incarcerated Members and Neighbors
Know someone who is currently incarcerated? Need to know what you can do to support them in a way that encourages life change?
Join Gary Croft, Faith-based Reentry Coordinator from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, as he provides the basics on effective faith-based mentoring practices. He will discuss steps you can take to effectively mentor residents inside our state prisons whether they reside right next door or are incarcerated far away. This Webinar is for anyone who is currently walking with an incarcerated church member, family member, friend, or neighbor.
Jail Ministry 101
With 12 million county jail admissions each year, local jails are a community’s critical shut off valve in the community to prison pipeline. Jails, also, provide an opportunity to break the addiction-incarceration cycle.
Join jail minister UM Pastor David Pennington for an online workshop about effectively ministering to our vulnerable members and neighbors who are detained and incarcerated in our local communities. Pastor Dave walks you through the basics of responding to a person’s arrest and detention, getting prepared for jail ministry, after care upon release, providing the right spiritual guidance, and sustaining yourself in ministry. This Webinar is for anyone who wants to reach out to local jails or is currently walking with a church member, family member, friend, or neighbor residing in their local jail.
Caring for Crime Victims
Forgiveness and empathy are essential for healing when harm has been experienced. This Webinar session focuses on developing a deeper understanding of what crime victims experience, insight into their practical and spiritual needs, and concrete suggestions for giving wise and sensitive help. Based on the book God and the Victim, Reba Collins, All In Community Consultant, walks you through this important ministry that is often overlooked. This Webinar is for ministers who are walking with individuals who have experienced an individual or community crime-related incident.
COVID-19 Pandemic Grant Info Session
Join Reba Collins, All In Community Consultant, to learn about the requirements and application process for this grant opportunity. Tips for community collaboration and ideas for appropriate initiatives are discussed.
Caring for the Justice Involved During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Join Reba Collins, All In Community Consultant, for this short, 10-minute webinar about the best ways to learn about what is happening inside our state prisons, where you can get available resources in your community, and how you can restore hope and provide healing during the pandemic.
Justice-Involved Family Ministry
Many faith groups offer families a Christmas gift through Angel Tree ministry. But few have a year-long ministry with children and families living through a loved one’s incarceration. In this Webinar, special presenter Michelle Payette with Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree ministry offers tips and tools for reaching out to families any time of the year to offer prayer, tangible support, and loving encouragement. Originally presented during the COVID-19 pandemic, this webinar offers unique insights into connecting with families during and after times of intense community stress.