Celebrate Recovery Inside Director, Jan Thomas, addressed chaplains from the Correctional Service Canada in Guelph, Ontario, on May 2, 2008. Canada has had CRI in some of its facilities, but not to any large extent. The meeting was arranged by Ruth Williams and Gerrit Blok from New Life Prison Ministry and Gerrit Blok, Celebrate...

We welcome a new addition to our great list of State Reps. Norma Ollie is our new State Representative for South Dakota. She attended the 2007 Saddleback Summitt last year and was sold on the program. She lives in Belle Fourche, SD, and she wrote that she was in Pierre at the Womens Prison...

Celebrate Recovery Inside is doing well at the Orange County Jail in Orlando, Florida. Chaplain David Cramer said, “We have 274 graduates…131 men accepted Christ for the first time and...

The Commissioner of Prisons has approved the Re-entry Project on the Island of Fiji, Daniel Savou, Program Assistant at Prison Fellowship Fiji, states that he is presently awaiting confirmation from the Ministry of Justice.

When it starts, Celebrate Recovery Inside will be the first program of the Re-Entry Project. It will cover three months of the project. Twenty inmates will be selected to go through the program. The following three months will have sessions on Risk Management and counseling, before they are released back to the community. The inmates will have a PowerPoint presentation of the program when they launch.

CR Inside State Reps Ernie Holland and Johnny Mitchell reported that during the previous calendar year there were a minimum of 70 professions of faith during the various ministry outreach activities including Celebrate Recovery inside the state of North Carolina.  CR has been heavily active at both the Gaston and Charlotte Correctional Centers, to say the least.  Even though custody staff cap the weekly meetings at 50 due to an escape, there are...

Cathy Sherman, Ontario Provincial Rep for CR Inside in Canada kicked off the New Year CR Inside Open Share Group in the Grand Valley Institute for Women prison facility with 32 women in attendance.  Nine women have already graduated from their Step-Study, four of which have since paroled and are attending local CR’s in community.  The remaining five women recently completed Sponsor Training as well as completing Testimony Writing workshops.  As you might have guessed, they have also taken on Co-leader positions for the Open Share groups, lead worship and assign weekly greeter’s to their weekly CR sessions. One of the young ladies has become an ambassador for the prison by accompanying the prison chaplain to speak at local churches and the community about how Celebrate Recovery, the Restorative Justice program and how our Savior Jesus Christ has changed her life (click here for an article about her story).