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August 2026 | Issue 017

Volunteer News

Hello everyone.

It has been a busy four weeks since I last wrote to you. The Lord continued to go before us and to open pathways for us.

KO Perth Guest Weekend was blessed, and the team welcomed ten beautiful women into their Kairos community. They held their reunion which also went very well.  Three other Regions have worked to complete their team formation training in readiness for delivering programs this month.

Please pray for Kairos Outside South Coast and Kairos Outside Canberra that their Weekends will run smoothly, that their guests will all attend the weekends and that many members of the outside community will attend their closing ceremonies on 16 August and 23 August.

We pray for the Kairos Inside Goulburn team as they ready themselves to deliver Program number 27 on 24 to 28 August. Unfortunately, they will be unable to join us at the conference. We will miss their smiling faces but know that they are with us in spirit.  

We also pray for the Kairos Outside North Queensland team and both the Kairos Inside St Heliers team and the Kairos Inside Mannus team as they continue with their team formation meetings in preparation for delivering programs in September.

Lord, we thank you for your gentle guidance and protection over us. We thank you for the many people who have been touched and moved to support us in prayer, financial support and acting as intermediaries opening new doors and opportunities for us to assess and pursue. We thank you for the volunteers who have been moved to provide testimonies to encourage us and enable us to promote the ministry.

We thank you for the words of encouragement and witness which we received when attending the international conference in Orlando. Affirmation that God is not done with this ministry and that he has plans both in Australia and world-wide for expansion and renewal.

We thank you for the witness given by the two Kairos volunteers who delivered powerful testimonies on the power of God to heal us and use us as his hands and feet even when we are under attack. 

I hope that you find these two testimonies as moving and powerful as I did:

Pamelia - https://youtu.be/eTkk8jkbwMk?si=J3G_J9Fe5v-vENJM

Roy - https://youtu.be/miOGiNCg8ls?si=ep-Uw2SAd_w4_OJp

Let us go forward obedient to our Lord's instructions in Colossians Chapter 3 verses 12 to 17

"You are God's chosen race, his saints, he loves you and you should be clothed in sincere compassion, in kindness and humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with one another, forgive each other as soon as a quarrel begins. The Lord has forgiven you, now you must do the same. Over all these clothes, to keep them together and complete them, put on love. And may the peace of Christ reign in your hearts, because it is for this that you were called together as parts of one body. Always be thankful."

And in Matthew Chapter 6 verse 34

"So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own"

Lord, we place our trust in you and thank you for the privilege of being your hands and feet and witnesses to the miracles you work in this ministry to the incarcerated, and the families of those impacted by the incarceration of family members or close friends.

God, your love is amazing. Thank you for modelling how to love people well – we want to do our best to follow your example. Your love has changed us. Help us to lead others to your transformative love. In Jesus name. Amen.

Thanks, and abundant blessings.

Deb

Deborah Poulton

Chief Operating Officer

Kairos Prison Ministry Australia

coo@kairos.org.au

Training

Kairos Outside - Advanced Kairos Training

23 October – 25 October 2026 - YWAM Tahlee - 31 Church Street Tahlee NSW

For further information contact your Kairos Outside Coordinator Coraine AKTKO@kairos.org.au

Application Form is available on the Events page of the website and is linked here.

Kairos Inside - Advanced Kairos Training

Initial planning - Dates to be confirmed later this year:

January 2027 - Newtown New South Wales

February 2027 - Adelaide South Australia

June / July 2027 - Wagga Wagga New South Wales

For further information contact your Kairos Inside Coordinator Ken AKTKI@kairos.org.au

Encourage

Kairos Prison Ministry International 50th Anniversary Conference 🎈

On 21 July our Board Chair Colin Stiller, our Deputy Board Chair Tony Hoban and I flew out to Orlando to attend the 50th Anniversary Conference, sit in on a KPMI board meeting and to participate in two days of International Council meetings, two days of workshops and fabulous evening presentations. We had the opportunity to meet up with representatives from South Africa, Northern Island, England and many of our American brothers and sisters.

We also met with the KPMI Chief Operating Officer Evelyn Lemly and the KPMI Chair Steve Musselwight.

Colin and Tony also had the opportunity to chat with last surviving member of the nine old men who established Kairos Prison Ministry fifty years ago. 

Tony participated in memorial service and read out the names of the Australian volunteers who had passed away in the last two years.

Coraine joined us for the Friday and Saturday sessions of the conference and the 50th anniversary dinner celebration 

There will be a story with more photos on the News page of the website later this month.

Governance

Music - CCLI 🎵

We are all required to report the songs we use to CCLI.

Kairos Prison Ministry Australia provides an easy way to report song use via connecting to the CCLI reporting website. Our Operations Manager Bruce Bond is happy to guide and assist you in navigating this process.

Bruce has provided a summary of when reporting is required for me to share with you.

Copyright reporting is not required for the use of Public Domain songs, songs owned by Kairos Prison Ministry International or songs for which you have obtained written permission to use from authors or publishers.

Copyright reporting is required each time the words of a song are projected onto a screen or every time the words of a song are printed. These reporting obligations exist for songs used at any Kairos event – team formation, program events and continuing ministry activities.

The submission of song usage data ensures that CCLI can distribute the correct amount of royalties to song writers and publishers.

Bruce sends each leader details on how to use the CCLI website when the Program Notification Form is submitted for the upcoming program.

Just because publicly available songs are on YouTube or the like does not mean that there is no need to report song use.

Kairos Prison Ministry Australia pays an annual copyright fee to CCLI which is then on billed to each of the active Regions.  Find out more and get all the information on MyKairosOz 

Contact Bruce if you have any questions: operations@kairos.org.au

Supporting You

Key Contacts

EZRA Support Team:

There are difficulties now in downloading the EZRA. Please contact your EZRA support person before you attempt to download EZRA. This will avoid delays and heart ache. In two recent instances new EZRA downloads have had to be ordered because the leaders did not work with the EZRA team.  The reissue of EZRA downloads is done by KPMI and we are experiencing delays.

To ensure a speedy download please work with your assigned support person.

Southern New South Wales - Jan: ezrasupportnsw2@kairos.org.au

Queensland and Northern New South Wales – Lex: ezrasupportqld@kairos.org.au

South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria – Kylie: ezrasupportsa@kairos.org.au

Excellence Initiative Coordinators:

These volunteers assist Regional Committees to navigate the excellence initiative process and ensure that the reports are completed in a timely manner and forwarded to the AKT coordinators. These reports inform the coordinators on which areas need additional attention during leadership training at the Advanced Kairos Training workshops.

National Agape Coordinator:

We have 15 Agape Coordinators in Australia, and the National Coordinator Sue Hodges, has established monthly zoom meetings to encourage all our coordinators to work collaboratively, share ideas and identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Sue would love to get to know all our coordinators and hopes that they will take up her invitation to regularly meet on zoom.

Sue will be attending the National Conference in Adelaide and will be manning the Agape café help desk. She would love some of our coordinators to join her.

Sue is happy to chat at any time. She can be contacted on agape@kairos.org.au

Email Help Desk:

Keith is available to assist with both internet and email enquiries. He would be extremely grateful if volunteers responded in a timely manner to his emails relating to set up or transfer of Kairos email addresses. He is also available to assist Regions to the establishment of Kairos email addresses for the Regional Committee Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and Agape coordinator. He is also available to assist you with navigating the acceptable use email procedures.

Keith can be contacted on emailhelpdesk@kairos.org.au

Operations Manager:

Bruce is available to assist Regions with general enquiries and the processing of Program Notification Forms and the associated processes including the ordering of EZRA downloads, arranging for programs to be included on both the KPMI and Australian calendars and the establishment of prayer rosters.

Bruce can be contacted on operations@kairos.org.au

Accountant:

Sandra is available to work with Regional Committee Chairs and Treasurers to process payments, set up term deposits with Westpac and investments with Macquarie Bank. Sandra is also responsible for processing your monthly Treasurers reports and preparing monthly financial statements for Kairos Prison Ministry Australia for tabling at Board meetings. Sandra is available to assist Treasurers in complying with their obligations as set out in the Treasurers Handbook and ensuring that payment delegations are complied with.  Sandra is keen to assist Treasurers in moving their records and support documents across to their designated Google drive.

Sandra can be contacted on accounts@kairos.org.au

Projects Officer:

Sarah is available to assist volunteers with website enquiries, access to the members only section of MyKairosOz, posters and flyers, queries re Facebook, Regional websites, and media. Sarah will assist in arranging advertisements in newspapers and will guide Regions through media protocols.

Sarah can be contacted on projects@kairos.org.au

State Council Chairs:

Your State Council Chairs play a crucial role in providing support to their Regions, overseeing the leadership ratification process and organising regular State Council meetings. They are available to assist in problem solving any leadership issues which may arise. They regularly liaise and work with the Chief Operating officer to obtain permission for variations and to inform her of any problems which their Regional are encountering.

They may be contacted as follows:

New South Wales - Jackie Kairosnsw@kairos.org.au

South Australia - Hugo Kairossa@kairos.org.au

Queensland - John kairosqld@kairos.org.au

Victoria - Rob robrodenburg@kairos.org.au 

Western Australia - Deb coo@kairos.org.au

National Conference - Prepare

We are excited to have 117 volunteers registered to attend the upcoming conference and that almost all Regions are being represented at the conference!

Kairos South Australia volunteers are eagerly awaiting your arrival and hoping that you can spend time exploring beautiful Adelaide while you are there. See below a list of amazing sites you can explore when you come to South Australia.

We have an exciting program organised for you which we hope will assist you in the fabulous mission work you are undertaking.

I am really looking forward to catching up with you all and hope that you will take the time to have a chat with members of the board and myself.

Three workshops are focused upon your specific program lines and will cover what is new in the manuals, continuing ministry and an opportunity to share successes and challenges being faced.  See extract of the program below.

Please remember to bring your Program Manuals with you. 💡

Things to do in Adelaide!

Your conference pack will have lots of information but if you want to plan ahead, here is a sneak peek:

Check out "This week in Adelaide and Surrounds here.

Go to the Tripadvisor website on Adelaide tours here.

Walk North Terrace with the SA Art Gallery, SA Museum, State Library Adelaide University and the beautiful Botanic Gardens. Also colourful and noisy Central Markets or a walk along the Torrens River. Try and Adelaide Oval tour or wander the Zoo. Many beautiful churches. Eat out in buzzing lanes such as Leigh St or Peel Street.

To the coast: Port Willunga and Star of Greece cafe, the Hallet Cove board walk and ancient geology, Port Adelaide including the Maritime Museum and dolphin tours.

Further afield: World class Monarto Zoo, Mount Lofty Summit, Kangaroo Island, and the wine districts of McLaren Vale and Barossa, Goolwa at the mouth of the mighty Murray. Cleland Wildlife Park. And the bustling German town of Hahndorf.

And beyond? Wilpena Pound in the amazingly green and ancient Flinders Ranges. A flight over Lake Eyre full to the brim for only the third time in recorded history and teeming with birdlife.

There is much much more. Enjoy South Australia!

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Vision

A Community Spiritually Freed from the Effects of Imprisonment.  Reaching all Impacted by Incarceration, through the Love, Hope and Faith found in Jesus Christ.

Mission

The mission of the Kairos Prison Ministry is to share the transforming love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ to impact the hearts and lives of incarcerated men, women and youth, as well as their families, to become loving and productive citizens of their communities.

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