► TurnKey... a Prison Church Partnership

The Church At The Pen facilitates a Turn-Key prison partnership between The Church At The Pen and the local church. In real time this means we provide training and ministry opportunities for every person in your church called to vocational, or volunteer, missional prison service.

It also means The Church At The Pen can be called upon to provide visitation and care to Insiders on your behalf. In other words, if your church receives a request for a visitation or pastoral care call to a covered prison, we go on your behalf and then provide valuable feedback.

The Church At The Pen is an extension of every church who partners with us via TurnKey. There is no reason for any church not to be part of TurnKey. Are you yet?

*Visitation and care calls currently available at IMSI (Idaho Maximum Security Institution), ISCI (Idaho State Corrections Institution), ICC (Idaho Corrections Center), and SICI (Southern Idaho Corrections Institution).

► Questions About TurnKey

How can we plug into TurnKey at our church?
   
Email Ed Snyder: snydermail@msn.com

We already have a prison ministry in our church. Why should we be part of TurnKey?
   
If you are already involved in prison ministry then TurnKey will compliment and enhance what you are already doing by providing additional training, opportunities, and resources.

Is there a program cost to participate in TurnKey?
   
No. TurnKey is a partnership not a program or purchase.

Why should we participate in TurnKey?
   
There are benefits (see section above right), but more than these, the Insiders we are reaching through TurnKey are truly the "lepers" of our society. Jesus wants us going, touching, and healing in His name.

► Partner Churches

   First Church of the Nazarene / Twin Falls, ID
   
   Epic / Twin Falls, ID
   
   Boise First Community Center / Boise, ID
     
   Eagle Church of the Nazarene / Eagle, ID

► Benefits

• You are participating in a mandate given to all Christians, see Matthew 25:31-46.
• TurnKey is an effective Prison presence from your church.
• TurnKey provides excellent training, direct supervision, and ministry opportunities.
• TurnKey represents your church and pastors for calls and visitations to covered prisons.
• We have access where you do not.
• We can continue to "pastor" the Insider beyond a visitation.
• We provide each visitation referral from your church with detailed feedback information.
• TurnKey allows the local pastor to focus on their local congregational needs while effectively reaching out to those in prison.
• and much More...

But how can people call for help if they don't know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven't heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it?  Romans 10:14 / The Message Version

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.  Isaiah 6:8 / King James Version