SCHEDULED EVENTS

Sunday: 9:00am Bible Monday: AA Meeting Tuesday: Prison Volunteer Group Wednesday: AA Meeting Wednesday: A CIM Group Wednesday: Couples Counseling Thursday: NA Meeting Thursday: Engaged Couples Counseling Saturday: Spiritual Book Club Go to Events page for more details...

Prisoner Ministry

"Dear Rev. Joan & Michael, I deeply appreciate the help, all of the cards, letters love that you gave me while I was incarcerated. You guys are totally awesome and are the parents that I never had & words could never explain how much love I have for you guys. I thank you from the bottom of my heart...." Gene (Super Max facility, released 2009)

Charity Behind Bars is our new prisoner ministry, located in southern Wisconsin. After 10 years of working within the prison system, Rev. Michael and Rev. Joan have decided to create their own ministry program. Focusing on the 12-Step recovery program based on Alcoholics Anonymous, Jesus in the New Testament and A Course in Miracles, Charity Behind Bars hopes to continue to volunteer within the Wisconsin prisons/jails, offering a message of hope and forgiveness to the inmates. With the recividism rate on the increase, pre-release programs are needed more than ever! Without not only the behavorial training, but a true spiritual "rebirth" the inmate will find himself or herself again behind bars.

Facilities Rev. Michael and Joan have served inmates, made pastoral visits or conducted on-site training programs.

• Dodge Correctional - Waupun, Wisconsin. Weekly classes, 5 years Medium and Maximum security
• New Lisbon Correctional - New Lisbon, Wisconsin. Weekly classes, 3 years Medium security
• Chippewa Valley Correctional Treatment Facility – Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Weekly classes 1 ˝ years, Minimum pre-release facility
• Colombia County Jail – Portage, Wisconsin. (Pastoral Visits upon request)
• Colombia Correctional Prison – Portage, Wisconsin. Maximum Security (Pastoral Visits upon request)
• Milwaukee County Jail – Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1 year Medium security
• Chowchilla Women’s Prison, California. 3 day workshop, Maximum and minimum security
• Baraboo County Jail - Baraboo, Wisconsin. 12-Step, Pastoral visits

	12-Steps The Promises		A QUOTE FROM BILL WILSON, THE FOUNDER OF AA "My depression deepened unbearably, and finally it seemed to me as though I were at the very bottom of the pit. For the moment, the last vestige of my proud obstinacy was crushed. All at once I found myself crying out, "If there is a God, let Him show Himself! I am ready to do anything, anything!" Suddenly the room lit up with a great white light. It seemed to me, in the mind's eye, that I was on a mountain and that a wind not of air but of spirit was blowing. And then it burst upon me that I was a free man. Slowly the ecstasy subsided. I lay on the bed, but now for a time I was in another world, a new world of consciousness. All about me and through me there was a wonderful feeling of Presence, and I thought to myself, "So this is the God of the preachers!" My Spiritual Awakening was electrically sudden and absolutely convincing. At once I became a part-if only a tiny part-of a cosmos that was ruled by justice and love in the person of God. No matter what had been the consequences of my own willfulness and ignorance, or those of my fellow travelers on earth, this was still the truth. Such was the new and positive assurance, and this has never left me." from As Bill Sees It Remember: IT WORKS !!

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