Training Day - Save that Date!

On Saturday, April 16th, New Life will be having a Volunteer Rally. It will be held at the Calvary (Pella) Youth House.  All current prison volunteers are welcome to attend.  In addition, anyone who wants to find out more about the new prison congregation & its vision for ministry are also invited to attend.  Tentative schedule is 9:00 - 2:30, lunch included.  Let me know if you are interested.

We will have two guest speakers.  Mary Mortenson will travel to Iowa from her home in South Dakota.  The executive director of Prison Congregations of America, Mary will describe what it means to become a prison congregation while describing key differences from traditional prison ministries.  

Dan Kingery will also speak.  Dan is currently one of two workplace chaplains at Vermeer Corporation in Pella.  Previously he worked for Prison Fellowship's Innerchange Freedom Initiative (I.F.I.).  He also worked for a time as a parole officer.  Dan will address strategies to maintaining a good relationship with the Department of Corrections (D.O.C.).  


And who knows?  I may get in my two cents too...


Rick Admiraal
Pastor of New Life Prison Church