True Vine Christian Academy Prison Ministry Outreach

True Vine Christian Academy, where Minister Michele Quick is the founder and visionary, currently offers free bible studies to incarcerated souls, and various aftercare services.  The prison ministry department will reach out to other prison ministries in order to build a network of re-entry resources in every state.

Resources will include services that will benefit:

·         The incarcerated

·         The Children of the Incarcerated

·         Loved Ones of the Incarcerated

·         Corrections Staff

The department will outreach to each area with heavy concentration to the Children of the Incarcerated.  Our theme for the year is Save The Children.  The goal of the Save The Children Campaign is to assist in breaking the generational curse of incarceration.  Spoken Word will be one of the methods used to evangelize the Youth.  Outreach to the youth is critical because we are in a time where the youth are losing hope at an alarming rate.  We are in a time where God is becoming irrelevant to the youth and many youth do not have a knowledge of who Jesus is.  As in any relationship, how can one build a relationship with someone they do not know.  The Save The Children Campaign will teach the youth how to pray.

A sample listing of the workshops the Department will offer for the year include:

·         The Impact of HIV on the Incarcerated and Their Families

·         Parenting

·         The Connection between Educational Disabilities and Behavior Problems and the Incarcerated

·         Impact of Substance Abuse and Incarceration (Criminal & Addictive Brain Similarities)

·         Stress Management

·         Anger Management

·         Empowerment Through Education

·         Cleaning Up Your Rap Sheet

·         God is Love Prayer Breakfast

The department will have weekly meetings to fellowship, network and host prison ministry resource workshops.

The department has created a prison ministry blog and would appreciate your support.  The website is

http://tvcaprisonministry.blogspot.com/

The department has identified several camps that offer free camp to Children of the Incarcerated.  Registration information will be shared on the blog so that others can share this information to families with Children of the Incarcerated.

Instead of an Angel Tree program, True Vine Christian Academy Prison Ministry extends Nia’s Blessings.  Each January,  the ministry extends expressions and gifts of purpose, hope, faith & good cheer to family members of the incarcerated.  The ministry also sponsors a Clothing & Book Giveaway  Programs.

For more information, please contact tvcacademy@yahoo.com or 718-574-4221.