Volunteer

Are you interested in becoming involved in Prison Ministry?

Although Dismas Ministry serves as a national outreach our organizational office is maintained in Milwaukee. Therefore we typically accept volunteer requests to help with internal operational needs from the surrounding area. If you are interested in volunteering for prison ministry in your area, we urge you to contact the coordinator of prison ministry of your local parish or diocese.

At our local level, volunteers help with the operational needs of DISMAS MINISTRY.

Volunteer service may include:

Helping with correspondence to inmates
Office assistance (filing, copying, data entry, bookkeeping)
Statistical research
Grant research and grant writing
Packaging and mailing of bible and faith materials to prisons
Bible or faith study course assistance.

Youth opening their letters from the inmates.

If you are not close to the Milwaukee area but would still like to get involved in Prison Ministry we urge you contact your local diocese to find out if there is an established prison ministry and whom to contact in your area. If you don’t not have a prison ministry in your local parish or diocese we suggest you:

Form a jail or prison outreach (We suggest ordering Messengers of Hope: A Catholic Correctional Training Resource, published by Dismas Ministry.)
Start locally and look to your own parish for support. There are people in every parish that are affected by incarceration either personally or a loved one. We really need to reach out to those individuals for support.
Pray for victims and their families; reach out to them and form a support group.
Pray for the families of inmates; reach out to them and form a support group.
Help support Dismas Ministry’s national prison outreach with a donation.

Volunteer

Are you interested in becoming involved in Prison Ministry?

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