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Prisoners and Ex-offenders

The United States has the highest rate of incarceration of any country in the world. Low income African-American communities are the most affected. As part of our REACH efforts, CHBC works with three organizations in the community to serve, befriend, and minister to prisoners, ex-offenders, and others affected by incarceration in Orange and Durham Counties.

Antioch Builds Community
Our partnership with Antioch Baptist Church in Durham is focused primarily on helping families affected by incarceration through the non-profit they started called Antioch Builds Community.

Walk-a-Thon: Each October, Antioch Builds Community raises funds through a walk-a-thon. this a good opportunity for a small group or a family to serve together.

Antioch Summer Camp: Each summer, Antioch Builds Community offers an educational summer day camp for children in inner city Durham. Many of the children are in a family affected by incarceration. the camp relies heavily on volunteer help.

One Day with God: Once a year we collaborate with other churches to host an event in which prisoners spend a day outside of prison (usually at one of the churches) with their children. Contact: Charles Herbst?

Faith Teams: Leaving prison and returning in civilian life is on immensely hard task. And ex-offenders are given no resources to make the transition. To assist them, and hopefully to keep them from returning to prison, a group of individuals (a "faith team") meets with a selected prisoner regularly to get them back on their feet and re-integrated into the community. Contact: Samantha Vermillion.

Orange County Correctional Ministry
Yoke Fellows Bible Study: Each Tuesday evening, churches in the area collaborate to provide a Bible Study at the Orange County Correctional facility in Hillsborough. Contact: Kris Zyczkiewicz at kmz219@yahoo.com.

Prison Fellowship International

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Learn: Give:
  • Regular giving to the church partially supports these programs
  • Contact the people listed under each activity to learn about current needs
  • To contribute to Antioch Builds Community, mail a check for Antioch Builds Community
Participate:
  • Find out how to participate in any of these opportunities by contacting the person listed with each activity

College Missions Trip to Durham PDF Print Email
Habitat for Humanity of Durham
Written by Joo Lee   
Monday, 09 March 2009 08:20

Dear Family and Friends,

We want to include you in our spring break mission to Durham this week.  Our goal for the week is to learn what God is doing in the area of poverty and homelessness in our own back yard, so that we might get in step with him.  We have had a fantastic start.


SATURDAY, 3.7

Habitat

On Saturday we began our service with Habitat for Humanity in Durham.  We were blessed early in the morning by seeing the dedication and groundbreaking of a new habitat house in New Hope Crossing. New Hope Crossing is a large piece of property that Habitat bought in order to build a whole community. They have dozens of homes in the community so far, and we will be working there later in the week.  In the afternoon, we teamed up with the Ksor family on their habitat home on Jackson St.  They didn’t speak much English, but their 7 year old daughter took a liking to Katherine (one of our Duke team members)  We spent the day cleaning up the property and doing some odds and ends inside the house.  This neighborhood was the first of Habitat’s Home Blitz’s (think extreme makeover on steroids).  In 2005, they built 7 homes in 7 days in this community and they have built several more since.  Many of the homes were taken over by crime and drugs.  Since Habitat has come into the neighborhood to help homebuyers buy affordable housing, crime has gone down 50% in that neighborhood.

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Last Updated on Monday, 11 May 2009 14:51
 
Volunteer Opportunity to visit Orange County Correctional PDF Print Email
Orange County Correctional
Written by Kyle Clark   
Thursday, 05 March 2009 06:14

Click through to read more if you're looking for opportunities to serve in your local community. CHBC has an opportunity to visit the men of the Orange County Correctional facility weekly and build a relationship with them.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is our coordinator and would love to help you connect to this ministry. After the break is a letter from her; we hope you'll consider joining them!

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Last Updated on Monday, 09 March 2009 00:38
 


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