Have you come across the Sycamore Tree project which is run as part of the Prison Fellowship’s work?
Sycamore Tree is a volunteer-led victim awareness programme that teaches the principles of restorative justice. It is taught in prisons in groups of up to 20 learners, over a 6-week period. Learners on the programme explore the effects of crime on victims, offenders, and the wider community, and discuss what it would mean to take responsibility for their personal actions.
Perhaps you could pray at your church for the work of volunteers who support the Sycamore Tree?
Perhaps there are events and activities you and your church could get involved with?
The Free Churches Group support chaplains working across prisons in England and Wales - you can read more about this important work HERE
From the Prison Fellowship website: Not everyone is able to volunteer and visit prisoners. But everyone can pray. Sylvia Mary Alison wrote in her memoir:
“In our prayer imagination, we can enter any prison in the world, and visit Christ in prisoners there… It is Christ who beckons us into the darkest of the world’s jails. Will you cooperate with our Lord in building his house, from the ground floor up, by marching into every prison of the world in prayer?” – Sylvia Mary Alison
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