Individualized Guidelines
This manual provides general guidelines for ministry applicable to most jail and prison settings. This final section is reserved for insertion of specific guidelines unique to the institution in which you will be ministering.
Here are some suggested items to insert in this section of the manual:
∙ An organizational chart for your prison ministry and/or that of the institution in which you will be ministering. (An organizational chart shows who is part of your ministry and who you are responsible to within the institution.)
∙ Rules for dress and safety specific to your institution.
∙ Guidelines on what you as a volunteer--or your ministry team--may bring or send into the institution where you minister: Bibles? Bible studies? Tracts? Cassette tapes? Videos?
∙ Specific guidelines for visiting inmates, including visitation days and hours and what can and cannot be brought or sent in.
∙ Guidelines for corresponding with inmates and items that can be sent through the mail.
∙ A map of the institution.
∙ Handouts from in-service training offered by the institution.
∙ Referral lists of local organizations or ministries that assist paroling inmates with housing, jobs, clothing, finances, etc.
∙ If you are a chaplain or a volunteer coordinator and have developed training materials unique to your institution, insert these materials in this section.
∙ If you are a Bible college instructor, insert your lecture notes and handouts in this section.
This manual provides general guidelines for ministry applicable to most jail and prison settings. This final section is reserved for insertion of specific guidelines unique to the institution in which you will be ministering.
Here are some suggested items to insert in this section of the manual:
∙ An organizational chart for your prison ministry and/or that of the institution in which you will be ministering. (An organizational chart shows who is part of your ministry and who you are responsible to within the institution.)
∙ Rules for dress and safety specific to your institution.
∙ Guidelines on what you as a volunteer--or your ministry team--may bring or send into the institution where you minister: Bibles? Bible studies? Tracts? Cassette tapes? Videos?
∙ Specific guidelines for visiting inmates, including visitation days and hours and what can and cannot be brought or sent in.
∙ Guidelines for corresponding with inmates and items that can be sent through the mail.
∙ A map of the institution.
∙ Handouts from in-service training offered by the institution.
∙ Referral lists of local organizations or ministries that assist paroling inmates with housing, jobs, clothing, finances, etc.
∙ If you are a chaplain or a volunteer coordinator and have developed training materials unique to your institution, insert these materials in this section.
∙ If you are a Bible college instructor, insert your lecture notes and handouts in this section.