High Country

Prison Ministries
High Country Prison Ministry

Claude Vess

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682 - 6738

HIGH COUNTRY PRISON MINISTRY
MISSION STATEMENT

HCPM is a gathering of Christians seeking to encourage and support the spiritual life of prisoners, in cooperation with the Chaplaincy program of the Avery/Mitchell Correctional Institute.

We seek to embody the love of God in Christ Jesus to the prison community through the following activities:

1. Help to create a hospitable place of healing, acceptance, compassion, and hope in prison.

2. Develop meaningful relationships with the prisoners.

3. Participate as volunteers as time and interest permits.

4. Recruit other volunteers for the programs, i.e., Bible study, Yokefellows, Sunday School, worship services, discussion groups, etc.

5. Be a catalyst for informing the wider community about prison life and the ministries of the Office of Religious Services.

6. Be an outside support for the Chaplaincy staff through prayer and encouragement.

7. Support part-time chaplains financially.

8. Our goal is to bring men to Christ.

9. Pledge our support for our State Chaplain, Charles Rector, and the two community chaplains; Russell Barrett and Jacob Willis.

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WHO IS HIGH COUNTRY PRISON MINISTRY
AND WHAT DO THEY DO?


(Exerpt from speech by inmate at 2003 Volunteer Banquet)


Tonight we honor the couriers of hope. The envoys of a message so fundamentally important that God has apparently appointed only a select few to take up the cross of unsung service. You who have labored in anonymity within this spiritually parched desert; you, who have given freely of yourselves in order to sow the seeds of healing in the hearts and minds of society’s outcasts; you men and women, we do honor here tonight-because of your dedicated perserverance in proclaiming that one essential necessity that no one can live without…..HOPE!