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January 2025 | Issue 002

 
 

Volunteer News

Hello everyone. Welcome to 2025!

 

How time flies it feels like yesterday that I sent off my first volunteer newsletter. I hope that you have all had the opportunity for rest and celebration of the birth of our saviour Jesus Christ with your families and church congregations.

 

This is just a short newsletter. I aim to send out a monthly newsletter going forward to keep you fully informed.

 

We are in for a busy 2025 as we prepare to reintroduce programs into prisons which have been closed to us while major renovations and new building complexes were completed.

 

Please join with me in celebrating the completion of our first short course for 2025 at Wolston Correctional Centre. Thirteen Participants graduated from the Program.  All were fully engaged, bonded with fellow participants and team members and touched by the program. They shared a love for Amazing Grace.  

 

I look forward to working with you all as we strive to recruit sufficient volunteers to enable us to run all the programs we have planned for 2025.  All going well we will complete 33 programs in 2025.

 

I give thanks to God for you and the work you are all doing.  May you be filled with energy and continued wisdom as you journey through 2025 serving our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Blessings and peace

Deb Poulton

Chief Operating Officer

coo@kairos.org.au

Kairos Prison Ministry Australia

 

Vision and Mission Statement

 

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.

 

Ministry - Advanced Kairos Training (AKT)

 

Register Now

 

I am writing to encourage Regional Committees to consider sending their leadership teams and Regional Committee Chairs and some of their Regional Committee members to the upcoming Advanced Kairos Training (AKT) courses which we have planned to be run later this month. I would also like to encourage State Council Chairs to attend an AKT for the ministry stream in which they are not currently active.   

 

The AKT courses give an overview of our ministry as well as in depth analysis and training on the various elements of the programs we run. Many elements are unique to a particular ministry stream.  Attendance at the AKT courses will equip Regional Committee Chairs and State Council Chairs with the knowledge they need to oversee the running of the programs.

 

Attendance at an AKT within two years of leading a program is a prerequisite for ratification by the State Council of a Leader and Observing Leader. Advising Leaders must attend an AKT if it is more than twelve months since they led a program or more than twenty-four months since they last attended an AKT. It is extremely important to keep up to date so that leaders can be we can be supported to ensure that the latest changes to program content are followed and that all the work health and safety and other cyber security guidelines are followed.

 

Leaders can be ratified at State Council immediately after they have attended an AKT. Once the ratification process has been completed the Leaders Regional Committee Chair is able to prepare and submit the Program Notification Form to Bruce Bond at the Kairos Support Office for actioning under our new streamlined process which incorporates the ordering of Ezra.  All of this will be explained in depth in my next newsletter.  

 

The upcoming AKT courses are:

Kairos Inside: 17 – 19 January and Kairos Outside: 31 January – 2 February

 

Details can be found on the Kairos website under Events or by clicking the buttons below.

 

We will not be running additional courses until June and July, so it is extremely important that all members of the leadership teams who need to attend an AKT register for the January courses if they wish to commence team formation before June or July. Further details of planned locations and times for the midyear training courses will be up on the events page on our website once they have been finalised.

Don't miss the boat!  Register now.

Click on the links below for details.

Kairos Inside AKT
Kairos Outside AKT
 

Praise Point

 

Kairos Inside Mid North Coast Women

 

How wonderfully God revealed Himself to the Participants of Kairos Inside Women's Short Course #5, answering the faith prayers of so many.

 

From the morning of Day one, through to the Closing Ceremony, the women who attended were open & searching. They were sensitive to the Holy Spirit's presence in the centre from the beginning.  Coming in on Tuesday morning saying – we can feel the love & joy in these rooms. It is NOT out there in the yard, but there was something palpable & present that they were hungry for & could feel...Click below to read more

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