Youth Corrections Outreach OPEN ARMS ZADOK PROJECT OPEN ARMS WORLDWIDE Wise Choices & Wise Friends The focus of each Project Zadok team is to give to youth in these correctional facilities the tools to live disciplined and successful lives upon their release. Through teaching and mentoring, these young people are encouraged to avoid and resist the temptations that threaten to lead them back into a life of crime. The Project helps them to understand what is right, just and fair, and choose that narrow path in the future. Life-Line (Release Kit) According to Project Zadok founder, and former inmate, Eduardo de Mello Ribeiro, the most critical period for these youth upon release is the first three months. “After about three months of resisting the temptation of returning to drugs and crime my so-called ‘friends’ stopped coming around. Had it not been for my newfound faith and friends from Open Arms, I don’t think I would have made it.” To help in this transition, Project Zadok provides a take-home kit, or “Life-Line”, to each youth upon his/her release, and provides encouragement to the youth to become involved in Open Arm’s community-based Cornerstone Projects and other programs, where they can become part of a new Christ-centered life. Current Projects As of September 2011, Open Arms has been working with 70 youth at the corrections center in Marilia with a team of 12 teacher/mentors. How can you participate? There are at least three ways you can make a difference today: • Life-Line Kit – Each kit costs Open Arms $12 and includes contact numbers, a copy of the Bible and a reading plan, a Project Zadok t-shirt, and material to encourage the youth to stand strong. Based on the current level of youth being released, each Project uses roughly 20 such kits per month. • Per Youth – For an investment of $10 per month you allow Open Arms to reach one addi- tional troubled youth in the youth correctional facility to enable him/her to discover a different path, one toward hope and a future. • Sponsor a new or expanded Zadok Project for the year – For $6,300 ($525/month) you, your church, business, or civic organization can fund a Zadok Project over an entire year, either through expansion of an existing Project or establishment of a new Project at a new youth correctional facility. Training and Mentoring (while in custody) Through teaching, testimonies, object lessons, Bible study, activities and one-on-one counseling while youth are at the correctional facility, Open Arms seeks to impart insight, knowl- edge, and discernment to the youth who have lost their way. “If you become wise, you will be the one to benefit. If you scorn wisdom, you will be the one to suffer.” (Proverbs 9:12).

Zadok 2

Download PDF Report

Upload
michael-meyers
View
212
Download
0

Embed Size (px)

DESCRIPTION

Project Zadok page 2

Citation preview

Youth Corrections Outreach

OPEN ARMS ZADOK PROJECT

OPEN ARMS WORLDWIDE

Wise Choices & Wise Friends

The focus of each Project Zadok team is to give to youth in these correctional facilities the tools to live disciplined and successful lives upon their release. Through teaching and mentoring, these young people are encouraged to avoid and resist the temptations that threaten to lead them back into a life of crime. The Project helps them to understand what is right, just and fair, and choose that narrow path in the future.

Life-Line (Release Kit) According to Project Zadok founder, and former inmate, Eduardo de Mello Ribeiro, the most critical period for these youth upon release is the first three months. “After about three months of resisting the temptation of returning to drugs and crime my so-called ‘friends’ stopped coming around. Had it not been for my newfound faith and friends from Open Arms, I don’t think I would have made it.” To help in this transition, Project Zadok provides a take-home kit, or “Life-Line”, to each youth upon his/her release, and provides encouragement to the youth to become involved in Open Arm’s community-based Cornerstone Projects and other programs, where they can become part of a new Christ-centered life.

Current ProjectsAs of September 2011, Open Arms has been working with 70 youth at the corrections center in Marilia with a team of 12 teacher/mentors.

How can you participate?There are at least three ways you can make a difference today:

• Life-Line Kit – Each kit costs Open Arms $12 and includes contact numbers, a copy of the Bible and a reading plan, a Project Zadok t-shirt, and material to encourage the youth to stand strong. Based on the current level of youth being released, each Project uses roughly 20 such kits per month.

• Per Youth – For an investment of $10 per month you allow Open Arms to reach one addi-tional troubled youth in the youth correctional facility to enable him/her to discover a different path, one toward hope and a future.

• Sponsor a new or expanded Zadok Project for the year – For $6,300 ($525/month) you, your church, business, or civic organization can fund a Zadok Project over an entire year, either through expansion of an existing Project or establishment of a new Project at a new youth correctional facility.

Training and Mentoring (while in custody)

Through teaching, testimonies, object lessons, Bible study, activities and one-on-one counseling while youth are at the correctional facility, Open Arms seeks to impart insight, knowl-edge, and discernment to the youth who have lost their way.

“If you become wise, you will be the one to benefit. If you scorn wisdom, you will be the one to suffer.” (Proverbs 9:12).