Inspiring Music - Some With Lyrics - for use by Stepping Stones Gathering weekly call-in meeting and worship service.
Stepping Stones Playlist
Mass Incarceration Reports
The Prison Policy Institute has issued an annual “Mass Incarceration: the Whole Pie” report since 2014. An additional groundbreaking PPI report was recently issued called “Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023.” Data about women prisoners are often hard to find on the 172,700 women and girls incarcerated in the USA. More information will be presented by Katy Dickinson in "Women of Faith in Jail” at the GTU Graduate Student Conference: Women and Religion, at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, on 28 April 2023.
Easter Communion
St. Joan’s Chapel supported the Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy and Stepping Stones Gathering in bringing holy communion to 103 Elmwood jail inmates to celebrate Easter 2023.
Christmas Communion
St. Joan’s Chapel supported the Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy and Stepping Stones Gathering in bringing holy communion to 198 Elmwood jail inmates to celebrate Christmas 2022.
St. Joan’s Chapel
The Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real (ECR) parishes have had active jail ministries in Santa Clara County for over sixty years. In 2022, we created Saint Joan's Chapel to expand and coordinate services to the community of inmates and those in reentry and recovery in our county. St. Joan's Chapel is named in honor of Saint Joan of Arc (1412-1431). Click to keep reading...
Bay Area Volunteers Needed
Organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area seeking volunteers to benefit the incarcerated, ex-inmates, and their communities.
Quotes on Strength and Brokenness
Quotes on Strength and Brokenness, from: Leonard Cohen, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde
All Are Welcome, song by Marty Haugen
"All Are Welcome" song lyrics by Marty Haugen: Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn to forgive...
Outside Bay Area: Organizations and Programs
Outside Bay Area: Organizations and Programs - description, web location, and other information for the community of the incarcerated, ex-inmates, and volunteers who want to help.
The Fullness of Time, poem by James Stephens, circa 1917
“The Fullness of Time” poem by James Stephens, circa 1917.
HelpingOut 