Prison Ministry
Blue Ridge Ministries currently conducts Great Dads and Holistic Hardware programs within correctional institutions.
Great Dads teaches parenting skills enhanced with praise and worship music. Counselors are available to share God’s love and forgiveness. A camp is held on-site the following day allowing children to spend all day with their fathers. These camps have been instrumental in establishing relationships with fathers and their children.
Holistic Hardware teaches a combination of spiritual and practical tools and principles that enable men and women to overcome addiction, poverty, and incarceration. It is presented as a component of the Department of Corrections S.P.I.C.E. program for inmates scheduled to be released within the next 12 months. The S.P.I.C.E. program goals are to provide offenders with a meaningful educational and spiritual based training program, to provide offenders with the basic tools to enhance their ability to return to society as productive law abiding citizens, and to prepare offenders for the workplace while reconnecting them to their families and communities. The recidivism rate for S.P.I.C.E. graduates in 2011 was 4.2% compared to 32% for all releases.
Please see our seminars page for a list of available seminars for correctional institutions.