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Prison Fellowship sets luncheon meeting today
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Posted on Jan 19 2006
The Prison Fellowship of the CNMI has invited Graeme Taylor, PFI’s International Service and Justice Programs Director for the Pacific, to be its guest speaker during today’s PF CNMI’s Luncheon Meeting at Aqua Resort Club.
Taylor has a diploma on Restorative Justice from Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario, Canada.
He will also conduct a Sycamore Tree Project training, a biblical model for Restorative Justice, tomorrow, Saturday, Jan. 21, from 9am to 4pm at the Cornerstone Christian Church, As Perdido Road , Chalan Piao. Admission is free. The public is encouraged to attend.
The Sycamore Tree Project gives the church the opportunity to help offenders, victims, and community members experience healing and freedom that can come when biblical justice is done. It is a way of showing prisoners the love and mercy of Jesus. It will help them understand the results of crime on victims and the community, and to agree to take responsibility for their actions and begin making amends by taking part in an act of symbolic restitution. They do this as a result of exploring Biblical concepts of confession, repentance, forgiveness, restitution and reconciliation related to specific criminal acts. The Sycamore Tree Project is the product of many years of development by many PFI staff and PF national ministry leaders.
The Prison Fellowship of the CNMI is an arm of Prison Fellowship International, which holds offices in Washington DC, Lausanne, and Singapore. Prison Fellowship International is an association of 112 national Prison Ministries.
PF CNMI’s vision is to become a national movement of reconciliation and restoration for all those involved in and affected by crime, thereby proclaiming the redemptive power and transforming love of Jesus Christ for all people.
For inquiries about the ministry of Prison Fellowship of the CNMI and the Sycamore Tree Project training, call PF CNMI president Rose White at 234-7219 or PF CNMI executive director Femie Rey at 235-5486/235-8590, or email pfcnmi969500@yahoo.com. (PR)
