Social & Criminal Justice Ministry
For over 30 years, our Criminal Justice Ministry has impacted the lives of thousands of incarcerated persons, returning citizens, and their families. We have supported individuals at Northern State, Edna Mahan, and East Jersey State Correctional Facilities, and met material and spiritual needs at reentry and transitional homes across the region. Our Angel Tree program has grown from serving dozens of children to hundreds of justice-impacted youth annually. In 2024, we distributed 500 backpacks filled with essentials to children of justice-impacted individuals, hundreds more to returning citizens, made Valentine’s Day cards for 200 incarcerated youth, and donated hundreds of clothing items.
Most recently, during Resurrection Weekend 2025, with the support of a Lilly Endowment-funded grant through the Louisville Institute, we launched our “Dialogues with the Disinherited: Disrupting the Playground to Prison Pipeline” podcast series to bring the lived experiences of justice-impacted people to the forefront as they champion their own probation, prison, parole, and post-release stories of trial and triumph.
Social Justice Resources