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Our volunteers
Anei ō mātou kaiāwhina
The role
TTPCA offers spiritual and religious support to all men and women inside prisons. To provide this service, TTPCA relies on faith-based volunteers to come into prisons to help deliver group worship, group study and individual pastoral care to prisoners every week. Our volunteers enable us to reach more of those prisoners who choose to begin or continue their spiritual journey.
Volunteers are managed by our chaplains at each prison site. Our professional chaplains provide leadership to the volunteers’ chaplaincy activities in the prisons, maintain relationships with key Corrections staff, and liaise with the local church and faith communities.
We value the commitment of our volunteer network. They work with our chaplains to deliver religious and spiritual services to groups of prisoners, provide individual pastoral care (assistant chaplains and pastoral visitors), and facilitate Bible studies and other faith-based study groups.
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