2012 Volunteer Training Events / Schedules
Watch this space for upcoming training opportunities
Yokefellow Volunteer News from around our state !
Debra Edwards recently recognized as statewide Volunteer of Year
Click here to read the story Volunteer couple at Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution named top prison volunteers for 2012 by NC Department of Public Safety’s Adult Correction Division
Read How State DOC deals with loss of chaplains !
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Yokefellow Annual Meeting Draws Volunteers from across the State
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Yokefellow Prison Ministry of North Carolina, Inc convened its’ 42nd annual meeting at the First Baptist Church in Burlington, NC Saturday October 29, 2011. The meetings theme “THAT THEY MAY BE ONE” from John 17:20-26 and Acts 1:14 served as the basis for an inspiring keynote message from Reverend Sidney Dunston. ========================================================================== Extra Extra Read all about it ! July 2011 NC Budget reduces number of DOC Chaplains by 50% Click here to read Senior Board member’s letter of appeal to leaders of NC House and Senate Letter from Rev BrucePate ==========================================================================
Ministry
Yokefellow Prison Ministry of North Carolina is an inter-denominational, interracial Christian ministry of reconciliation begun in 1969, which includes both lay and clergy, male and female. It is founded on the idea that people’s lives are changed through committed relationships.
The ministry is conducted by trained volunteers who lead weekly meetings of small groups inside our correctional institutions. Yokefellow is not focused on worship, preaching, teaching, counseling, or Bible study, but is a ministry of listening, sharing, caring, encouragement and support provided by community volunteers from the “outside” yoked in fellowship with those on the “inside” through the weekly small group meetings.
The Biblical foundation of our commitment is the invitation by Christ our Lord in the Gospel of Matthew 11:29-30:
