Uncuffed Ministries

Providing virtual classes in 14 department of juvenile justice facilitites for boys and girls. We are partnering with an amazing new ministry called 4th purposerun josh smith. Their core belief is: after retribution, capacitation, and deterrence the fourth purpose of incarceration should be transformation. Josh spent 5 years in federal prison when he was a young man and now leads this ministry. 4th purpose has provided us with a wealth of video and written content to use in our virtual classes. Https://vimeo.com/xxx-xx-xxxx

Letter writing capmaign to the incarcerated - our focus remains on breaking down silos in the church, so whenever possible we look to partner with our christian brothers and sister, who are already doing good work, rather than recreating the wheel. We hd a group of latino boys at bcdc who are not fluent english speakers so we partnered with barbara rowe from christ for the city Ministries, who runs a gang outreach program in el salvador. Along with another fluet spanish speaker, lindsay conboy, we are writing and translating letters to latino boys to build enduring relationships en le nombre de jesus. We also have 52 other staff and volunteers correpsonding with boys and girls all over the state, offering hope and love to the least and lost. This endeavor has been crucial during the months in which fac to face contact was impossible for our volunteers and our kids.

Face to face, through glass, mentoring at the harford county detention center. Meeting with boys behind glass at the harford county detension center can often feel like we are staring into a dim and cracked old mirror. It is not optimal, but for Uncuffed to successully viot to serve in these trying covid-19 days we must take advantage of this limited access to continue to build enduring relationships in sub-optimal situations. Now we may see dimly through that scratched and dirty glass, but wen this is over the boys will know we have cared for them and loved them well, they will be fully know. Httpswwwuncuffedministriesorgnews...