Christians for Prisoners is sponsoring an ongoing Life Change Seminar in collaboration with a group of prisoners at R.A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Mich. Following is the schedule of past and upcoming speakers and activities:
2011
February 2011, Black History Month – Clifford E. Washington, contributing author, Perspectives of Sixteen African-American Christian Men
2012
- Jan. 21 – Michael Ford II, author of So You Have a Dream … Now What?
- Feb. 11 – Ronald Snead, retired manufacturing executive and chairman of the Ferris State University Board of Trustees
- March and April – Watch DVDs of Calvin January Series speakers: Richard DeVos, Father Gregory Boyle
- March 24 – Paul Kortenhoven, human rights activist
- May 28-June 19 – Watch and discuss DVD “The Interrupters” with Dr. Andy Vroon
- June 26 – Rev. Chico Daniels, Mel Trotter Ministries
- June 29 – Kirk Cousins, quarterback for the Washington Redskins (formerly for Michigan State University); view WOOD-TV news story
- July 3 – Herm Keizer and Paul Kortenhoven, “Soul Repair: Healing Moral Injury in Veterans of War,” with application to prisons
- Summer 2012 – Read and discuss Ten Powerful Phrases for Positive People by Richard DeVos
For more information about the series, download the Life Change Seminar brochure (PDF).