Children of incarcerated parents

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Gadara Ministries. Many Children woke up Christmas Morning anxiously wanting to open up gifts and many will, but did you know that 7 million children woke up Christmas morning with out one or both parents cause they're either in jail are prison. Here in Harris county there's 20 thousands children with incarcerated parents. Lets pray that God in the name of Jesus would liberated these parents and reconcile these broken relationships by restoring these families back together. Gadara Ministries works tirelessly everyday by the power of the Holy Spirit to engage these parents and offer them hope upon release by providing the necessary services needed to become productive members of society, parents, husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, mentors, and most of all too operate in their God given gifts. Please keep this ministry in your prayers., along with the those 7 million children nation wide and the 20 thousand right here in Houston's Harris county with incarcerated parents.

Testimony from family member of Gadara recipient

My brother Richard liked to give orders. He was always organized and kept his room and his car spotless. I remember how we (the younger siblings) were not allowed to eat or drink anything in his care ever. He graduated from high school as a baller and won a scholarship to college, but lost his way. He got involved with drugs and became someone we just didn't know. I guess you would say he became lost to himself. I knew the person that i had known growing up was still there, just somehow lost. He went through stints of jail and incarcerations, but I always knew he was not without hope, he was just lost. Gadara Ministries has help my brother find his way back to the real him. It continues to help him to come out of the forest in which he had become lost and back to the person God had created him to be. Thank you to Gadara Ministries for helping my brother find his way back to wholeness, out of the place of darkness, the lost place which he had gone. Thank you.

We need your help!!!!!

If you would like to support our mission and vision to transform the formerly incarcerated to the point of no return please visit us at.

www.gadaraministries.org

Gadara Ministries is in pursuit to reach and assist the 11,000 inmates paroled to Houston’s Harris County each year, by forming relationships with the prisons chaplains, wardens, and parole board. We send in information as to the services we provide and engage the inmate through correspondence via our post office box. Gadara begins to mentor and disciple these men and women before they are released. We are at the bus station when these men and women are released. On many occasions, the formerly incarcerated person re-entry plan into society is already in place. This plan is formed with consideration of the state parole board, family members, the Gadara staff, and partnering organizations. We walk along side and aide men and women who were sentenced by the court system to prison and labeled not fit for society. Gadara only has an opportunity to services these men and women when the state parole system feels that these men and women are again fit for society. They are released often times with $50.00 and a bus ticket. This is not enough for the formerly incarcerated, because statistics shows that when these men and women are left with no help, they fall back into life of drugs and crime. Gadara Ministries will help to reduce crime and the recidivism rate. The rate of prison recidivism in Houston Harris County is staggering. Those being released back into society need more then just a bus ticket home. With the power of love, compassion and guidance can make a lasting change. Let’s remember that society deals with the end result of men and women after prison in one way or another. Either we reach out and help them become productive member of society or ignore the need and they fall back into the life of crime, drugs, and etc, victimizing their communities.
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