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Selecting Church and Community Resources


“Selecting Church and Community Resources,” Prison Ministry (2023)

“Selecting Church and Community Resources,” Prison Ministry

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Elder James Turner and his wife, Rene, make their way to the Las Vegas Transitional Services Office in Nevada on Monday, August 9, 2021. The couple volunteer as service missionaries to connect individuals that seek to stabilize their lives with temporal assistance, unemployment support and general information about community and government resources.

Selecting Church and Community Resources

When leaders have a clear understanding of the individual’s needs, they will be able to appropriately select helpful Church and community resources. Leaders should prayerfully review the list of Church resources and consider if and how they may be adapted for those who are affected by incarceration.

Leaders should make every effort to ensure individuals have access to the scriptures, a subscription to Church magazines, and other supportive literature.

Here are some of the available Church and community resources:

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