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In search of faith
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Spirals of growth
Jim Baird on progress in
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Missions past
J.M. McCaleb's home sets
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'Shapers of the Century.'
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PHOTOS BY JERRY CANTRELL
Blue sky silhouettes property the Kitty Church of Christ, Georgetown, hopes to purchase.
Targeted property for Guyanese congregation
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Vol. 57 No. 6
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Prison work
See PRISON WORK, Page 27
Dallas justice center gives ‘voice to voiceless
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Greenan
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A SERVICE OF OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
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gains numbers,
fresh methods
Reaching full range of offenders,
facilities focus of national workshop
BY JULIF. ANDERSON
LOR THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
DALLAS
Attorney Ken Koonce has been talking to a
mother of four who wants her babies back.
Truth be told, the mom does not have a
high I.Q. Some would label her as “slow.”
And she’s made mistakes. In the eyes of
some, Child Protective Services, in particular,
this was enough to take the children away.
Koonce, representing the mom through the
Urban Justice Center (UJC), disagrees.
“Our perception was, certainly, that nothing
she has done was intentional,” he explained.
“She provided a decent home for the children,
and she loved them dearly.”
Thankfully,
the center
opened its
doors to this
low-income
mom and is
currently in
litigation over
the custody of
her children.
Under the umbrella of Central Dallas
Ministries (CDM), the UJC seeks to fulfill
CDM’s mission: “Sharing the love of God in
word, action and attitude and building genuine
community in our neighborhood and beyond.”
Koonce, who works with fellow attorney
John Greenan at the center, is finding fulfill-
ment in his work at the UJC, a feeling he was
unable to attain in the corporate legal world.
With a law degree from Pepperdine
University under his belt, Koonce tried differ-
ent areas of law in different settings, in firms
both big and small.
“I just had not found anything very fulfill-
ing,” he said. “I became convinced in my own
heart that I wanted to be involved in some
entity like Central Dallas, and that Jesus spent
a lot of his own time working for the poor.
That’s why I’ve been able to find fulfillment in
practicing law now.”
CDM, which started in 1988, was under the
oversight of the Preston Road church for its
Number of congre-
gations involved in
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OKLAHOMA CITY
Some church-related ministries take off
with great fanfare and momentum. Others
develop through the grassroots involvement
of one group of church members here,
another there. The latter has typified the
growth of prison min-
istry in our fellowship.
Taking to heart the
biblical dictum to minis-
ter to those in prisons,
more than 400 mem-
bers of churches of
Christ are expected in
Oklahoma City June 21- _________________
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Jail and Prison Work-
shop at the Memorial
Road Church of Christ, prison ministry.
The workshop’s con-
tent will mirror the expanding body of pro-
grams and curricula designed to reach all
kinds of people, incarcerated in all kinds of
prison facilities, with all manner of needs —
physical and spiritual.
Interest in prison work has been fueled by
the growing number of church members
whose relatives are incarcerated, often for
drug offenses, says prison ministry leader
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FOR INFORMATION e-mail Jerrygibi@aol.com
or jcantrell@guyana-mission.org
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America mark property the church
in the Kitty district of Georgetown,
Guyana, hopes to purchase if
$40,000 can be raised.
The congregation and its minis-
ter Frederick Darrell, both self-sup-
porting, have met at the Kitty
Market (right) which will soon be
sold, says Jerry Cantrell of the
Guyana International Bible
Institute. Cantrell is sponsored by
the Central church, Cocoa, Fla.
Members of the Kitty congrega-
tion hope to renovate the house for
immediate use and later build a
new facility on the property.
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