Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome.

One part of this month’s meeting will be a brief conversation about AI tools in our work — a few early examples of where they may be useful, a few questions worth holding, and how they might support rather than replace the human relationships at the heart of reentry support.

Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions & Announcements
Share who you are, where you’re serving, and any current updates from Angel Teams or returning community members.

2. Regional Angel Team Updates
Progress, challenges, and encouraging developments from Angel Teams around the country.

3. Volunteer Chaplain Check-ins
Updates from visiting and corresponding chaplains supporting inmates and returning community members.

4. Discussion: AI Tools in Our Work
We’ll touch on a few early examples of where AI tools may be helpful and a few questions to keep in view as we experiment.

5. Shared Needs, Next Steps & Closing
Time for questions, emerging needs, and next steps for staying connected and moving the work forward.

This is a working meeting for Angel Teams nationwide and anyone interested in starting or joining a team, volunteering remotely, or simply learning more about reentry support. Together, we help returning community members build new lives and avoid re-incarceration through love, structure, and spiritual guidance.

Video Replays

Catch up on past meetings and inspiring stories at Embraced:Fully Videos.

Our Mission

In partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry. Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship, building bridges of hope and belonging.

Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome!

This monthly gathering is a welcoming space to explore how we can support returning citizens—individuals coming home from incarceration—on their path toward stability, healing, and freedom.

Together we’ll discuss:

• 💫 What is an Angel Team?
• 👥 Who can join or start one?
• 🕊️ How can churches and volunteers make a meaningful impact?

💖 What Angel Teams Do

Embraced:Fully Angel Teams walk alongside returning community members to help them rebuild their lives — offering practical help like housing, transportation, and employment connections, and most importantly, a caring, faith-based community that welcomes them home.

Welcome AmiLynne Carroll — National Angel Team Coordinator!

We are thrilled to announce that AmiLynne Carroll is joining Embraced:Fully as our National Angel Team Coordinator. AmiLynne will be working alongside our Angel Teams across the country to strengthen coordination, support new teams as they form, and help ensure that every returning community member has a welcoming network waiting for them.

Join us Thursday to meet AmiLynne and hear about her vision for growing and connecting our Angel Team network nationwide.

📋 Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions & Announcements
Share who you are and whether you’re currently connected with any returning community members—or would like to be.

2. Welcome AmiLynne Carroll, National Angel Team Coordinator
Meet AmiLynne and hear about her role and vision for Angel Teams nationwide.

3. Regional Angel Team Updates
Progress, challenges, and success stories from Angel Teams across the country.

4. Volunteer Chaplain Check-ins
Updates from visiting and corresponding chaplains working with inmates and returning citizens.

5. Save the Date — Embraced:Fully Conference 2026 in Boulder, Colorado!
We’re thrilled to share that the 2026 Embraced:Fully Conference is officially coming together! Mark your calendars for September 18–19, 2026 in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. We’ve secured a group hotel rate at the Embassy Suites Boulder—and you can book your room now at the discounted rate (deadline: August 24, 2026). We’ll share early details about what to expect—including an Angel Team Network national gathering, course updates, and partner sessions—and we’d love to hear what topics and sessions you’d like to see at the conference.

6. Next Steps & Closing
Confirm upcoming meeting dates and next steps.

This is a working meeting for Angel Teams nationwide and anyone interested in starting or joining a team, volunteering remotely, or simply learning more about reentry support. Together, we help returning community members build new lives and avoid re-incarceration through love, structure, and spiritual guidance.

🎥 Video Replays

Catch up on past meetings and inspiring stories:

🌍 Our Mission

In partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry.
Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship—building bridges of hope and belonging.

Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support Embraced:Fully Angel Teams and Returning Citizens

Monthly Donation

One Time Donation

↗️ Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.

If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:

The Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861

View additional donation options here

Please remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.

Embraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.

Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome!

This monthly gathering is a welcoming space to explore how we can support returning citizens—individuals coming home from incarceration—on their path toward stability, healing, and freedom.

Together we’ll discuss:

• What is an Angel Team?
• Who can join or start one?
• How can churches and volunteers make a meaningful impact?

What Angel Teams Do

Embraced:Fully Angel Teams walk alongside returning community members to help them rebuild their lives — offering practical help like housing, transportation, and employment connections, and most importantly, a caring, faith-based community that welcomes them home.

Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions & Announcements
Share who you are and whether you’re currently connected with any returning community members—or would like to be.

2. Regional Angel Team Updates
Progress, challenges, and success stories from Angel Teams across the country.

3. Volunteer Chaplain Check-ins
Updates from visiting and corresponding chaplains working with inmates and returning citizens.

4. Discussion Topic: Continuing Interfaith Partnerships
Building on last month’s conversation, we’ll continue exploring how Angel Teams can partner across faith traditions to better serve returning citizens—sharing what’s working, new connections made, and next steps for expanding our interfaith network.

5. Need for a Volunteer National Christian Science Angel Team Coordinator
We’re looking for a dedicated volunteer to help coordinate and grow Christian Science Angel Teams across the country. We’ll discuss the role, responsibilities, and how you might get involved.

6. Next Steps & Closing
Confirm upcoming meeting dates and next steps.

This is a working meeting for Angel Teams nationwide and anyone interested in starting or joining a team, volunteering remotely, or simply learning more about reentry support. Together, we help returning community members build new lives and avoid re-incarceration through love, structure, and spiritual guidance.

Video Replays

Catch up on past meetings and inspiring stories:

Our Mission

In partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry.
Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship—building bridges of hope and belonging.

Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support Embraced:Fully Angel Teams and Returning Citizens

Monthly Donation

One Time Donation

Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.

If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:

The Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861

View additional donation options here

Please remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.

Embraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.

Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, January 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome!

This monthly gathering is a welcoming space to explore how we can support returning citizens—individuals coming home from incarceration—on their path toward stability, healing, and freedom.

Together we’ll discuss:

• What is an Angel Team?
• Who can join or start one?
• How can churches and volunteers make a meaningful impact?

What Angel Teams Do

Embraced:Fully Angel Teams walk alongside returning community members to help them rebuild their lives — offering practical help like housing, transportation, and employment connections, and most importantly, a caring, faith-based community that welcomes them home.

Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions & Announcements
Share who you are and whether you’re currently connected with any returning community members—or would like to be.

2. Regional Angel Team Updates
Progress, challenges, and success stories from Angel Teams across the country.

3. Volunteer Chaplain Check-ins
Updates from visiting and corresponding chaplains working with inmates and returning citizens.

4. Discussion Topic: Exploring interfaith partnerships
This year we are continuing to expand our interfaith partnerships in our National Angel Team Network.

5. Next Steps & Closing
Confirm upcoming meeting dates and next steps.

This is a working meeting for Angel Teams nationwide and anyone interested in starting or joining a team, volunteering remotely, or simply learning more about reentry support. Together, we help returning community members build new lives and avoid re-incarceration through love, structure, and spiritual guidance.

Video Replays

Catch up on past meetings and inspiring stories:

Our Mission

In partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry.
Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship—building bridges of hope and belonging.

About our guest

Charles Jones was arrested at 14 and incarcerated at 16 for a murder he didn’t commit. The real killer? The detective who arrested him.

After 27 years maintaining his innocence, Charles is finally free. During those decades behind bars, he earned his GED, Associate’s degree, and studied law—using that knowledge to advocate for himself and fellow inmates. Now 43, he’s preparing to have his record vacated as Kansas faces a lawsuit over his wrongful imprisonment.

Join us to hear Charles’s remarkable story of resilience, self-education, and unwavering hope.

Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support Embraced:Fully Angel Teams and Returning Citizens

Monthly Donation

One Time Donation

Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.

If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:

The Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861

View additional donation options here

Please remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.

Embraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KZLq9LMwzQ

“How Prayer Can Bring Freedom!”

Bobby Lewis, CS is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship and is also a prison chaplain in Buena Vista, Colorado—making this talk especially meaningful for the Embraced:Fully community.

Whether you’re seeking spiritual growth, supporting someone on their journey back into society, or simply curious about the healing power of prayer, this talk promises to be uplifting and practical.

About the Speaker

Bobby Lewis, CS is a Christian Science practitioner based in Buena Vista, Colorado. In addition to his work as a practitioner, he serves as a prison chaplain—bringing spiritual support and healing insights to those who need it most. He is also a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

Questions?

Contact: csinsanjuancapistrano.com or christiansciencesjc@gmail.com

Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome!

This monthly gathering is a welcoming space to explore how we can support returning citizens—individuals coming home from incarceration—on their path toward stability, healing, and freedom.

Together we’ll discuss:

• What is an Angel Team?
• Who can join or start one?
• How can churches and volunteers make a meaningful impact?

What Angel Teams Do

Embraced:Fully Angel Teams walk alongside returning community members to help them rebuild their lives — offering practical help like housing, transportation, and employment connections, and most importantly, a caring, faith-based community that welcomes them home.

Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions & Announcements
Share who you are and whether you’re currently connected with any returning community members—or would like to be.

2. Regional Angel Team Updates
Progress, challenges, and success stories from Angel Teams across the country.

3. Volunteer Chaplain Check-ins
Updates from visiting and corresponding chaplains working with inmates and returning citizens.

4. Discussion Topic: Year End Review & Looking Forward to 2026
As we close out 2025, we’ll reflect on the blessings, growth, and progress made this year—and look ahead to our vision, goals, and opportunities for supporting returning citizens in 2026.

5. Next Steps & Closing
Confirm upcoming meeting dates and ways to stay connected in the new year.

This is a working meeting for Angel Teams nationwide and anyone interested in starting or joining a team, volunteering remotely, or simply learning more about reentry support. Together, we help returning community members build new lives and avoid re-incarceration through love, structure, and spiritual guidance.

Video Replays

Catch up on past meetings and inspiring stories:

Our Mission

In partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry.
Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship—building bridges of hope and belonging.

Matthew Hammond and Laura Lapointe

Special Guest Alert! Mathew Hammond of Love Only Grows Music Ministry along with Laura Lapointe, his family and friends will be performing live at our next Embraced:Fully Zoom Meeting, December 4th at 6PM (Pacific Time). You will definitely want to attend. For what better way could there to celebrate the joy and spirit of the Christ spirit than with the healing and transformative music and abundant goodwill that emanates from Matthew’s deeply effecting voice and sweet guitar work? He, along with his wife Liz, family and friends look forward to sharing some of their original songs and Christmas carols with you, your church and friends. This promises to be a truly special evening of uplifting spiritual music that brings healing and transformation…. and oh did we mention joy?! There will be plenty of that.

Links:

• Love Only Grows Music Ministry (https://loveonlygrows.org/)
• Laura Lapointe, CS (https://healing.lauralapointe.com/)

Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support Embraced:Fully Angel Teams and Returning Citizens

Monthly Donation

One Time Donation

Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.

If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:

The Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861

View additional donation options here

Please remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.

Embraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.

Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome!

This monthly gathering is a welcoming space to explore how we can support returning citizens—individuals coming home from incarceration—on their path toward stability, healing, and freedom.

Together we’ll discuss:

• What is an Angel Team?

• Who can join or start one?

• How can churches and volunteers make a meaningful impact?

What Angel Teams Do

Embraced:Fully Angel Teams walk alongside returning community members to help them rebuild their lives — offering practical help like housing, transportation, and employment connections, and most importantly, a caring, faith-based community that welcomes them home.

Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions & Announcements
Share who you are and whether you’re currently connected with any returning community members—or would like to be.

2. Regional Angel Team Updates
Progress, challenges, and success stories from Angel Teams across the country.

3. Volunteer Chaplain Check-ins
Updates from visiting and corresponding chaplains working with inmates and returning citizens.

4. Discussion Topic: Giving Thanks and Gratitude
A time to reflect on the blessings, growth, and shared purpose within this work.

5. Next Steps & Closing
Confirm upcoming meeting dates and ways to stay connected.

This is a working meeting for Angel Teams nationwide and anyone interested in starting or joining a team, volunteering remotely, or simply learning more about reentry support. Together, we help returning community members build new lives and avoid re-incarceration through love, structure, and spiritual guidance.

Video Replays

Catch up on past meetings and inspiring stories:

Our Mission

In partnership with others, Embraced:Fully supports incarcerated and returning citizens in their moral and spiritual journey toward successful reentry.
Through Angel Team members, we help connect individuals with community, faith, housing, employment, transportation, friendship, and mentorship—building bridges of hope and belonging.

Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support Embraced:Fully Angel Teams and Returning Citizens

Monthly Donation

One Time Donation

Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.

If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:

The Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861

View additional donation options here

Please remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.

Embraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.

Our 2nd interview with Carlos Vasquez, author, speaker, and CEO of How to Battle and co-founder of the Pathway to Purpose Project.

We discussed how to come out of prison with a true purpose in life. Carlos served 17 years and experienced true moral character transformation. Today, his inspiring podcast reaches thousands of listeners.

About our guest

Carlos Vasquez is a speaker, author, and the Founder and CEO of HTB Consulting. After overcoming homelessness, addiction, and a 17-year prison sentence, Carlos transformed his life through faith, education, and personal development. He walked out of prison with just $200 in gate money and rebuilt his life from scratch.

Carlos is also the co-founder of the Pathway to Purpose Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mentoring at-risk youth, including those in foster care and juvenile detention. Through his work and podcast platform, Carlos strives to inspire individuals to embrace resilience, overcome fear, unlock their potential, and create lasting change in their lives and communities.

Links:

• How to Battle (https://howtobattle.com/)
• How to Battle Podcast (https://howtobattle.com/podcast/)
• Pathway to Purpose Project (https://p2p-project.org/)

Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support Embraced:Fully Angel Teams and Returning Citizens

Monthly Donation

One Time Donation

Note: Please be sure to select “Embraced Fully” in the “Fund” drop-down list on the donation page.

If you would like to support the work of Embraced:Fully with a check instead of an online donation, please make it out to:

The Principle Foundation
Memo: Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project
Mail to: 10670 Barkley St, Overland Park, KS 66212-1861

View additional donation options here

Please remember to specify Embraced:Fully as the program you’d like to support.

Embraced:Fully is a fiscally sponsored program of The Principle Foundation, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, tax ID number 43-0816306.