Help Them Make It Home: Leading TUMI Students to Reentry Success

Help Them Make It Home: Leading TUMI Students to Reentry Success

Connect, educate & celebrate with transformational leaders, working to change hearts & the culture inside prison walls & in our communities.

By Serving USA

Date and time

Monday, June 24 · 10am - 3pm PDT

Location

New Hope Community Church

4620 Nees Avenue Clovis, CA 93611

Agenda

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Help Them Make It Home: Leading TUMI Students to Reentry Success

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Welcome and Greetings

Joe Avila, Serving USA

Opening Prayer and Housekeeping, Meet Serving USA team and Other Introductions

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Defining The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI)

Paul Chan, New Life Dream Center

What is TUMI? From his time as Vice-President at World Impact to New Life Dream Center and today, Paul Chan has helped grow and develop TUMI. Paul provides an overview of TUMI curriculum and how its ...

10:50 AM - 11:15 AM

Following the Mandate I Was Given

Charles Anderson, Epiphany Life Change

Epiphany Life Change focuses on long-term discipleship, supporting men and women on their spiritual journeys during and after prison. Charles shares how TUMI is also changing his own life as his mini...

11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Prison Fellowship, The Vision in California

Joe Schmid, Program Coordinator/TUMI, Prison Fellowship

Updates on Prison Fellowship, their outreach to California inmates and also how they incorporate TUMI. Joe's vision includes the TUMI program will play a significant role in equipping incarcerated m...

11:35 AM - 11:50 AM

BREAK

11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Turning My Testimony into a Ministry

Jarret Keith, Founder of Testimony Ministries

Advocating for gospel-based justice is a passion for Jarret Keith's redemptive, transformative and restorative, Testimony Ministries. He shares how TUMI and other programs empower opportunities that ...

12:20 PM - 12:35 PM

Called as a Facilitator

Mark Marshall, Teacher and Business Owner

Mark Marshall lends his experience as a teacher and facilitator of courses such as TUMI at California Men's Colony, to draw attention to needed changes in communication and support of providing assis...

12:35 PM - 12:50 PM

Finding Solutions

Dave Wesley, Serving USA

Kevin Drenth, Serving USA

How can reentry organizations better connect and improve cohesion with groups helping inmates on the inside? Dave Wesley and Kevin Drenth introduce suggestions for an improved process.

12:50 PM - 1:30 PM

LUNCH

Santa Maria Tri Tip, Tossed Garden Salad, Rice Pilaf, Ranch Beans, Rolls & Dessert

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Redemptive Justice, Explaining Circles of Support and Accountability

Sheri Wiedenhoefer, Community Justice Center

As Director of CJC, Sheri emphasizes collaboration in trauma healing work. Restorative and support circles are a way to bring a returning individual back to their community, to address a harm and "cl...

1:50 PM - 3:00 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION (Reentry Housing, Social Enterprise & Urban Ministry) w/Q&A

Johnny Lujan, Freedom Through Education

Nancy Atchley, Powerhouse Ministries

Bernard Emerson, Tapestry Church

Michael Casey, The Bridge Restoration Ministry

About this event

  • 5 hours

Help Them Make It Home: Leading TUMI Students to Reentry Success, at New Hope Community Church will be an impactful in-person event and luncheon sponsored by Serving USA.

Together as leaders, volunteers and nonprofits helping current inmates, TUMI students, and those reentering into society, we will find renewed inspiration. Let's connect to best support and guide individuals through life transformations, and help them navigate the journey back into their homes and communities, healthily. See you there!

Frequently asked questions

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Organized by

Serving USA

Serving USA is a Christian ministry and non-profit organization providing support and resources to other Christian non profit organizations. These ministries are on a mission to provide prisoners, women in recovery from domestic violence, and military veterans with the resources they need to navigate some of life's most difficult situations.

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