Koinonia House National Ministries

Koinonia House National Ministries

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Summary:

Koinonia House National Ministries supports the establishment of local ?Koinonia Houses? ? family/home based ministries.  Koinonia Houses attempt to recreate a loving and nurturing family environment into which Christian prisoners will be embraced as they leave prison.  Local Koinonia Houses provide biblical discipleship, financial and spiritual mentoring and job preparedness training for ex-offenders.  Koinonia House believes that duplication of this model will be a way to increase the number of Christian ex-offenders who are served, and will enable them to avoid being part of the large number who return to prison within a few years of being released.

Koinonia House grants local churches charters to use its registered name, logo, mission statement and its family-home based model.  In addition, it provides workshops and seminars to equip local ministry leaders. 

This organization also helps churches that want to serve ex-offenders, but feel unable to establish a Koinonia House. Such churches can adopt a single Christian ex-offender through Koinonia?s ?Meet Me at the Gate? program.

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

Koinonia House National Ministries is committed to developing post-prison ministry leaders, producing curricula for training of these leaders, preparing the Church to minister to ex-offenders, and ministering to inmates before they are released. This site contains a free information packet describing Koinonia House.  Also, for a small fee, it makes its full catalog of materials it has developed over the years available online to others interested in post-prison ministry.