"...New Brothers, Inc. has been serving the spiritual needs of incarcerated and post-incarcerated men and their families."
Titus 2 PenPals is a discipleship-focused pen pal ministry based on Titus 2:4-8, which instructs the older men and women in the church to mentor younger Believers, helping them become grounded in a godly life that is above reproach.
ARE YOU INTERESTED?
If you are 60 or older and want more information, please contact us! We are happy to answer any questions.
(Volunteers who are new to us will be asked to have their Pastor submit a letter of introduction and recommendation. We will give you a list of Guidelines to make sure all your questions are answered.)
HopeMail is a free, monthly, subscription service for incarcerated men and women anywhere in the United States. Each mailing is designed to encourage, give inspiration, and aspiration to men and women during their incarceration. You can also get involved with HopeMail as a Hope Writer. Find out more!
Click HERE to subscribe your loved one anonymously today!
Frequently Asked:
How Can I Get Involved?
- Subscribe incarcerated family and friends and people from the news to HopeMail.
- Become a Hope Note Writer.
- Participate or Volunteer in our Salem Discipleship Group.
- If you're over 60, become a Titus 2 PenPal. Contact Caroline Gregan for more information.
How Can I Support The Ministry?
PRAY - Pray for incarcerated men and women, pray for their families, pray for salvation in the hearing of the Gospel, pray for HopeMail and Titus 2 PenPals.
SERVE - Contact us to find out more about becoming a Hope Note Writer, Titus 2 PenPal, Discipleship Group volunteer or leader. You're whole church can get involved.
GIVE - You can give through PayPal or Venmo.
What Is Aftercare?
For NBF, aftercare is the spiritual support someone needs upon release from corrections, or as they are coming out of addiction. This is centered upon learning how to walk in the authroity of the love and power of the Holy Spirit.
What Are Titus 2 Brothers And Sisters?
Based on Titus 2:1-8, these are Christian men and women who attend and participate in Discipleship Groups. Primarily, they focus on building relationships, and become "passive mentors." These men and women do the work of modeling how to follow Christ.
Can I Lead a Discipleship Group?
Absolutely! - Contact Doug Gregan to find out more information about participating and training.
Ask Us A Question
If you have a specific question, please Send It To Us!
From the Blog:
“For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (2 Th 2:7–12 ESV)
I was listening to a conversation this afternoon about Madonna’s recent headline where she exposed a seventeen year-old girl at one of her concerts. The girl is reported as saying…
“Seriously, why would I sue Madonna for the best moment of my life?,” (the girl) told The Courier Mail. “It was the best night.”
While children’s safety from sexual predators in church is always on the forefront of my mind, having a grandchild has made this issue very personal for me once again. So, I thought I would remind us all of some very important questions. This is a revised version of an article I wrote about two years ago.
There is a good chance you attend church with a sexual predator who is targeting the children who attend church with you. That does not mean you should be suspicious of every man or woman who walks through the door on Sunday morning, but it does mean you should question the safety protocol your church has established to protect their youngest congregants.
If you attend church at all, you will undoubtedly hear a thousand sermons on “Be filled with the Spirit” (Eph. 5:18) for every one sermon you hear preached on “Be ye angry, and sin not” (Eph.4:26). This is a command! It is not a defense for a bad temper. It is not an excuse for an explosion of bitterness from your bruised ego for personal rejection. I am talking here of Holy Anger. God gets angry: “The anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses” (Exodus 4:14); “God is angry with the wicked every day” (Psalm 7:11). (If you must have a bumper sticker, try this last statement for a while -- but be sure that you increase your insurance before you do so.)
The blessed preacher St. Paul walked down Main Street Athens, the intellectual capital of the world of his day.
It hits everyone at some time in their life. The big question. Why am I here? What is the purpose of my existence? I for one refused to let go of the question until I got an answer.After observing the seeming futility of human existence in the face of war and hatred and famine and disease, I became fiercely unwilling to acquiesce to the “just go along with it and don’t ask questions” mentality of the world. I was not created a lemming and I would not live my life as if I had been, fated to tumble off some unseen abyss into a nevernever land of meaninglessness. If there was no transcendent meaning to life, I did not want to live it. To do so would make life a sad joke played by a ridiculous excuse for a God. On the other hand, if God did exist, I was going to get an answer from Him on this most important question and, hopefully, fulfill what it was He created me to do.
Last newsletter, we dealt with the fundamental question of why evil exists. Now we want to examine what, in the face of evil, we are meant to do with our lives here on earth.
I just want to encourage you to do one thing today: ask God.
Ask Him for anything and everything. Ask Him for whatever it is you desire or need. Ask Him for the thing you would never admit to wanting, but long for desperately in your heart. Just ask Him. Go ahead!
Honestly, I feel really strongly about this. I really believe we ask too little of God, and try too hard to make things happen for ourselves. I’m not opposed to us trying to make things happen for ourselves, and sometimes that’s the way to do it, even as we pray for the Lord’s help in our doing.
However, too often we just don’t think God cares about our problems. We don’t think we deserve His help.
Every hero of the faith has had to make an ultimate choice to trust God with everything. They had to be willing to risk it all—their dreams, their fortune, their health, their reputation, their very life.Consider:
- Daniel’s refusal to bow.
- Abigail falling to her face before David.
- Mary accepting the words of Gabriel.
- Noah preparing the wood for an ark.
- Elisabeth Elliot staying in the jungle with her toddler.
- Ruth laying at Boaz’s feet.
PREFACE from Doug Gregan: I am a firm and strong Pentecostal minister. This article does not, in any way, diminish my belief in the Holy Spirit, the Baptism in the Holy Spirit or the gifts and congregational expression of the Holy Spirit and those gifts. Read the content of the article carefully and understand its main points. These are the points that prompt me to include this in our ministerial material for New Brothers.“What agreement has the temple of God with idols?” (2 Corinthians 6:16)
About a year ago a friend of mine attended a Sunday morning church service in a Charismatic group noted for its exuberant worship, local involvement, and passionate children’s ministry. The pastor was a relatively new to the area, middle-age veteran whose outgoing personality and dynamic approach to ministry offered hope to the town’s spiritually lagging church system. During this one particular service, the pastor read the Acts 5 account of Ananias and Sapphira. Pausing, he looked out across the congregation and, according to my friend solemnly warned, “Don’t speak against what goes on in this church. If you do--you just be careful.”
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