On May 13 - 16, Rick and I will be experiencing Kairos #42 at Beto Unit, Tennessee Colony. This is a maximum security prison outside of Palestine Texas.
Our team (pictured below) has been preparing for weeks to take God's unconditional love and & acceptance into Beto Unit. We are very excited, and want you to participate with us, if you wish.
But first, what is Kairos? It's an intense weekend designed for 42 inmates, who each apply to participate. Some want to participate because they have heard that Kairos weekends involve homemade food...quite the change from their normal fare. Others will apply to participate because they want to get out of their normal job/routines. And maybe, a few will apply because they have an interest in spiritual matters. Whatever the reason, they are welcomed as they are, and accepted as they are. The inside team, which Rick will be part of, will spend all day with them in sessions learning the basics of God's love and grace. They will have activities, singing, and eating. Walls will come down between the hardest of hard - it's seen every time. Barriers will be broken and grown men who have been locked away and forgotten - gang leaders, drug dealers and worse - will experience a miracle on this weekend. They will realize that they are NOT forgotten, that they ARE accepted, and that they CAN know God's love. It is witnessed at every Kairos event, bar none.
This is where you come in. Our team needs prayer support. AND, the 42 inmates need prayer support. That's the most important thing you can do for us! If you are willing to participate in this way, please email me at kbrown@cornerstonebiz.net. We are filling in time slots so that we have 24/7 prayer coverage during the weekend. You can pick your time and know that your participation is a crucial component to this weekend.
Another way you can help is by donating to sponsor a participant ($160). This helps underwrite the cost of the weekend for us. It costs over $9000 for us to have this weekend. And, obviously, the participants do not pay to attend. So it's up to us.
You can also donate money for the food that we will be cooking all weekend. Just think, you could buy a home-grilled cheeseburger with all the trimmings for one of our participants for $5.00! Think of it as sponsoring a cheeseburger!
Do you like to bake? Then consider baking cookies for the weekend. On a typical 3 day Kairos weekend, we go through 1500 dozen (yes, I said 1500 dozen) cookies. Obviously, we need help baking cookies! If you would like to help in that way, there are some guidelines to follow. I can email you the details if you are interested. They can be baked now and frozen, so you don't have to wait to the last minute.
And if you are local, I invite you to attend the closing service on Sunday afternoon (5/16) at the unit. You'll enter the gates of the prison and be invited into the chapel. You will hear first hand from the participants what this weekend has meant to them. It is an incredible moment to see the men up close and hear them as they attempt to put into words what has transpired over the last few days. I promise, if you attend Closing, you will not regret it. But you have to be screened to attend, so let me know asap so I can get you on the list.
Rick and I are excited about this weekend, and are hoping that you will want to be involved in some way. Please consider it, and get back with me!
