To accomplish this mission, we will:

•   Assist churches in working with prisons to provide hands-on encouragement to inmates and their families by adopting one prison family, and developing a network of resources to assist that family spiritually, financially, and personally.

•   Network educators with prison wardens and chaplains in order to provide GED programs, marriage and family classes, vocational training, and college credit programs that will give purpose to prisoners and help to ensure personal success after an inmate is released.

•   Connect families of prisoners with Christian counselors at reduced fees.

•   Provide mentoring for spouses and children of inmates.

•   Network business professionals with soon-to-be-released inmates to offer job opportunities that provide a chance for a fresh start.

•   Assist women’s ministry groups with launching the “Boxes of Encouragement” project that provides gifts to wives and mothers of inmates.

It is the goal of Speak Up for Hope to give hope to the hopeless, encouragement and strength to the weary, reparation to marriages that have been torn apart by incarceration, and mental, spiritual, and physical stability to the children of prisoners.

We pray that people all over the world will begin speaking up for those who cannot speak up for themselves. As people become the hands and feet of Jesus to “the least of these,” something miraculous happens. As we choose to get personally involved by giving, volunteering, and praying, we are transformed from the inside out as we model for others how to become hope givers.

Carol Kent, Founder
Gene Kent, Director

For more information on the variety of ways in which you can be involved in Speak Up for Hope, please contact:

SPEAK UP FOR HOPE
P.O. Box 6262
Lakeland, FL 33807-6262
SpeakUpforHope.org
888.987.1212