Embraced:Fully https://embracedfully.org Success for Returning Citizens Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:22:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/embracedfully.org/files/2021/08/cropped-Embraced_Fully_square_logo.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Embraced:Fully https://embracedfully.org 32 32 185773216 You’re Invited: Angel Team Workshop Thursday, July 16 – Practical Support and Getting Ready for Reentry https://embracedfully.org/angel-team-july-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=angel-team-july-2026 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:12:22 +0000 https://embracedfully.org/angel-team-july-2026/ Illustrated scene of a returning citizen being welcomed by interfaith volunteers and reentry partners at a community doorway

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

This month, we will focus on practical support and getting ready for reentry: what real support looks like, how to communicate with people inside, and how the September Embraced & Empowered Conference can help train more Ready for Reentry partners.

Right now, men and women inside are doing real reentry preparation: naming their goals, facing hard truths, and building plans for life after release. What the course cannot give them by itself is someone steady on the outside. That is where trained partners, local communities, and Angel Teams matter.

The July workshop will be a practical working conversation about what support can look like before and after release: steady communication, clear boundaries, concrete help, and inviting the right people into this work before September.

Join our mailing list to receive the Zoom invite for our meetings.

Embraced & Empowered Conference invitation artwork

Ready for Reentry Foundations Training

September 18-19, 2026 – Boulder, Colorado + Zoom
Become a Ready for Reentry partner and learn how to walk steadily with someone preparing to come home.

Review the conference details  |  Register now

Meeting Agenda

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

2. Sharing What Practical Support Looks Like
Concrete ways Angel Teams can help: communication, transportation, documents, housing, job readiness, steady friendship, spiritual encouragement, and healthy boundaries.

3. Communicating With Inmates
We will revisit Securus and other facility communication systems, including practical expectations, tone, consistency, and safety.

4. Getting Ready for Reentry: Conference Review and Sign-Ups
We will review the September Embraced & Empowered Conference, who should attend, and how to invite faith communities, reentry partners, returning citizens, families, and volunteers.

5. Shared Needs, Next Steps & Closing
Time for emerging needs, next steps, and staying connected as we continue building communities of support.


Embraced & Empowered Conference

The 2026 Embraced & Empowered Conference will be held Friday and Saturday, September 18-19, 2026, with participation available in Boulder and online. The Foundations training is designed for people who want to become Ready for Reentry partners: steady, trained support for someone preparing to come home.

View the conference details or register now. Registration is pay what you can.


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.

Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service
Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service

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

Embraced Fully Fund
Embraced Fully Fund

↗ 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.

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“I Vowed I Would Never Return” — From Release to Service – Jacquin Webb Interview [Video] https://embracedfully.org/interview-with-jacquin-webb/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-with-jacquin-webb Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:43:04 +0000 https://embracedfully.org/?p=2601

Watch the replay of our conversation with Jacquin Webb, founder and executive director of Reconnect 180 in Carson City, Nevada.

After 20 years of incarceration, Jacquin came home with a box of belongings and the practical question so many people face on day one: what comes next? In this interview, he shares how that experience became a calling to help other returning citizens prepare before release and find support after they come home.

Jacquin’s story moves from the first shock of release into the work of service: meeting people before the gate opens, helping them navigate identification, housing, employment, transportation, and the ordinary choices that can feel overwhelming after years inside.

About Our Guest: Jacquin Webb

Jacquin Webb is the founder and executive director of Reconnect 180. Through its 90/90 model, Reconnect 180 supports people in the final 90 days before release and the first 90 days after they return home.

His work is rooted in lived experience, faith, and the conviction that people coming home need more than encouragement. They need real tools, real relationships, and a clear path forward.

In This Interview

  • The first days home after 20 years and why normal choices can become overwhelming.
  • How Reconnect 180 began with handwritten resource lists outside parole and probation.
  • Why the 90 days before and after release matter for preparation, trust, and practical follow-through.
  • The barriers that most often derail people, including identification, housing, transportation, employment, isolation, and anxiety.
  • What volunteers, churches, and Angel Teams can learn about offering steady support without overpromising.

To learn more about Jacquin’s work, visit Reconnect 180. You can also support Reconnect 180 directly.

Join our mailing list to be notified about upcoming interviews and events.


Video Replays

Catch up on past interviews 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.

Support Embraced:Fully to help build bridges of hope and belonging for returning citizens.

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You’re Invited: Angel Team Workshop Thursday, June 18 – Getting Ready for Reentry in Our Faith-Based Communities https://embracedfully.org/angel-team-june-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=angel-team-june-2026 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:46:20 +0000 https://embracedfully.org/?p=2598 Ready to Come Home graphic novel panel showing a person facing a bright horizon

Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome.

This month, we will discuss getting ready for reentry in our faith-based communities: what is already working, where the challenges are showing up, and what open questions we need to carry together.

Faith communities can become one of the strongest forms of reentry support. A congregation, branch church, study group, or small circle of volunteers can offer something many returning community members need deeply: steady relationship, moral and spiritual encouragement, practical help, and a place where they are not reduced to the worst chapter of their life.

But good intentions are not the same as readiness. Welcoming someone home well often asks more of us than warmth alone. It asks for humility, coordination, healthy boundaries, clarity about what we can and cannot provide, and a willingness to learn from people who have lived through incarceration and reentry firsthand.

Join our mailing list to receive the Zoom invite for our meetings.

Meeting Agenda

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

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

3. Discussion Topic: Getting Ready for Reentry in Our Faith-Based Communities
We will look at what helps a church or faith community prepare to welcome and support someone coming home: communication, trust, practical needs, spiritual care, team roles, and coordination with existing reentry resources.

4. Successes, Challenges & Open Questions
This will be a shared conversation. We want to hear what has worked, where people have felt underprepared, and what questions Angel Teams are carrying as this work grows.

5. Shared Needs, Next Steps & Closing
Time for emerging needs, next steps, and staying connected as we continue building communities of support.


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.

Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service
Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service

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

Embraced Fully Fund
Embraced Fully Fund

↗ 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.

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“It’s Time for You to Go Home” — Preparing for Parole – Al Cruz & Sister Mary Sean Hodges Interview [Video] https://embracedfully.org/preparing-for-parole-board/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=preparing-for-parole-board Wed, 27 May 2026 19:00:30 +0000 https://embracedfully.org/?p=2545

In this Embraced:Fully Interview Series conversation, Alfredo (Al) Cruz and Sister Mary Sean Hodges from the Partnership for Re-Entry Program (PREP) talk with David Fowler about what real parole board preparation requires: accountability, honesty, insight, community support, and the long work of preparing to come home.

The replay also includes a short Ready for Reentry course clip from Carlos Vasquez near the end of the interview.

Audio-only version

Prefer audio only? Use the player below, or download the MP3 for offline listening.

Download the MP3 audio

Links mentioned in the interview

In This Interview

  • How PREP helps people prepare for parole hearings through correspondence courses, reflection, accountability, and practical support.
  • What parole boards are listening for when someone speaks about responsibility, growth, remorse, and readiness.
  • Why honesty matters in the hearing room and in the years of preparation before the hearing.
  • How community can help without taking over the work that the person coming home must own.
  • What Ready for Reentry adds to the broader preparation ecosystem for people working toward a safe and successful return.

About Our Guests

Sister Mary Sean Hodges, O.P., a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose, founded PREP after years of ministry with crime victims, incarcerated people, and their families. PREP grew out of a restorative justice vision and serves incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people through courses, parole preparation, and reentry support.

Alfredo (Al) Cruz was paroled in 2015 after more than 28 years of incarceration. He returned to PREP as a volunteer reviewing Spanish Insight work and later joined the staff. His work is grounded in the conviction that people who want to help themselves prepare well should have meaningful support as they work toward coming home.


This interview is for Angel Team members, chaplains, families, volunteers, and anyone who wants to understand how serious preparation, community support, and spiritual growth can help open a path toward successful reentry.

Join our mailing list to be notified about upcoming interviews and events.


Video Replays

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

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.

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You’re Invited: Angel Team Workshop Thursday May 21 — Communicating Effectively With Incarcerated Individuals https://embracedfully.org/angel-team-may-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=angel-team-may-2026 Wed, 20 May 2026 18:17:18 +0000 https://embracedfully.org/?p=2536 Embraced:Fully Hands Together

Join us for our monthly Embraced:Fully Angel Team Workshop on Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Pacific) on Zoom. Guests are always welcome.

This month, AmiLynne Carroll, our National Angel Team Coordinator, will share practical ideas about communicating effectively with incarcerated individuals.

AmiLynne Carroll
AmiLynne Carroll

Writing to someone in prison, visiting, corresponding, or simply offering steady spiritual support can feel straightforward from the outside. But inside, words can carry a different weight. Tone, clarity, consistency, hope, and respect all matter. This will be a practical conversation for anyone who is already serving, anyone preparing to serve, and anyone who wants to understand how communication can support genuine reentry preparation.

Join our mailing list to receive the Zoom invite for our meetings.

Meeting Agenda

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

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

3. Featured Teaching: Communicating Effectively With Incarcerated Individuals
AmiLynne Carroll will share practical ideas for thoughtful, steady, and respectful communication with people who are incarcerated.

4. Group Discussion
We will leave time for questions and shared experience around correspondence, visiting, boundaries, encouragement, and helping people prepare for life after release.

5. Shared Needs, Next Steps & Closing
Time for emerging needs, next steps, and staying connected as this work continues to grow.


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.

Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service
Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service

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

Embraced Fully Fund
Embraced Fully Fund

↗ 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.

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Sentenced to 26 Years to Life — Michael James Interview [Video] https://embracedfully.org/interview-with-michael-james/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-with-michael-james Fri, 01 May 2026 20:37:17 +0000 https://embracedfully.org/?p=2524

Sentenced to 26 years to life, Michael James found something inside prison that he says set him free eight years before he ever came home — Christian Science. In this Embraced:Fully Interview, Michael talks with David Fowler about how a chance encounter with Science and Health rebuilt his thinking, his relationships, and his life — from a violent prison yard to Cal State LA, marriage, and a life of helping others.

About Our Guest: Michael James

Michael James

Michael James was sentenced to 26 years to life in state prison. Today he is rebuilding a life shaped by faith, discipline, service, and purpose.

Christian Science played a defining role in that transformation. Michael is now pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting at California State University, Los Angeles, working with Caltrans as a Back-Up Driver, building his car hauling business Catch a Ride Service, teaching financial literacy through Trap House Trading Academy, and developing the Community Chess Blueprint to help keep resources circulating within the community.

The conversation explores what real transformation actually looks like — not as an idea, but in practice: faith, accountability, reentry, work, and building something that lasts.

In This Interview:

  • Reading Science and Health in 18 hours — the moment in solitary confinement that changed everything.
  • How his heart began to change — and how other inmates and staff responded to it.
  • What freedom actually means — Michael’s definition, eight years before he came home.
  • Building a chapel community inside — introducing other inmates to Christian Science.
  • Coming home and building a life — school, work, marriage, business, and the Community Chess Blueprint.
  • Advice for chaplains and audience Q&A — what really helps men inside, what doesn’t.

Chapters

  • 00:00 Cold Open
  • 00:27 Introduction
  • 02:11 Growing up in church
  • 04:33 First run-ins with the law
  • 06:35 Going to prison at 26
  • 08:20 The hole — solitary confinement
  • 10:50 Reading Science and Health in 18 hours
  • 15:36 How my heart began to change
  • 17:09 Experiencing healings inside
  • 17:42 Other inmates challenging my change
  • 20:00 How prison staff responded
  • 21:54 What freedom actually means
  • 23:26 Introducing other inmates to Christian Science
  • 27:12 Chaplains, mentors, and correction
  • 30:37 Building a chapel community
  • 31:37 Coming home — life today
  • 35:09 Advice for chaplains
  • 36:53 Audience Q&A
  • 1:25:39 Closing
Join our mailing list to be notified about upcoming interviews and events.

 


More Video Replays

Catch up on past interviews and inspiring stories:

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.

Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service
Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service

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

Embraced Fully Fund
Embraced Fully Fund

↗ 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.

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You’re Invited: Angel Team Workshop Thursday April 16 — Exploring AI Tools in Our Work https://embracedfully.org/angel-team-april-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=angel-team-april-2026 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:26:44 +0000 https://embracedfully.org/?p=2494 Futuristic AI workspace with luminous tool nodes and cosmic mission-control interface

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.

Join our mailing list to receive the Zoom invite for our meetings.

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.

Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service
Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service

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

Embraced Fully Fund
Embraced Fully Fund

↗ 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.

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Can I Really Change? — From Prison to 11 Houses and 3 Coffee Shops – Rhonda Bear Interview [Video] https://embracedfully.org/interview-with-rhonda-bear/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-with-rhonda-bear Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:10:10 +0000 https://embracedfully.org/?p=2477

Rhonda Bear shares how addiction, incarceration, faith, and community became the foundation for She Brews Coffee & Transition Program, a growing network of transitional homes, and reform work across Oklahoma.

About Our Guest: Rhonda Bear

Rhonda Bear

A mother, wife, daughter, sister, and former inmate 377488, Rhonda Bear has dedicated her life to restoration and breaking generational cycles. As a social worker, founder of She Brews Coffee & Transition Program, and Program Director for Stand in the Gap Ministries, she helps formerly incarcerated women rebuild their lives with dignity, structure, and purpose.

Since 2008, Rhonda has opened transitional housing for people leaving incarceration, beginning with a single women's house and growing into a network that now includes housing for men, women, mothers with children, and families. In Oklahoma, she has also become a leading advocate for reform, serving on the Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections as the first formerly incarcerated person in the United States appointed to that role.

Rhonda's work is rooted in the conviction that when a life is restored, entire families and future generations can be changed. Through highly structured programming, practical life training, faith, accountability, and community, she continues to help women move from survival to lasting transformation.

In This Interview:

  • Turning herself in – Rhonda explains the road that led to prison and why surrender became the beginning of change.
  • Hope inside prison – She describes the role of Kairos, prison ministry, and the small sparks that help women believe they can change.
  • Building She Brews – She walks through how coffee shops and transitional housing grew into a practical reentry system.
  • Structured reentry support – Rhonda explains why dignity, accountability, safe housing, and community all matter after release.
  • Reforming Oklahoma – She reflects on advocacy, policy change, and what actually helps women stay out of prison.
Join our mailing list to be notified about upcoming interviews and events.

 


More Video Replays

Catch up on past interviews and inspiring stories:

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.

Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service
Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service

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

Embraced Fully Fund
Embraced Fully Fund

↗ 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.

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“Modern-day resurrections” – Sentinel Watch interview with David Fowler https://embracedfully.org/modern-day-resurrections-sentinel-watch-interview-with-david-fowler/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=modern-day-resurrections-sentinel-watch-interview-with-david-fowler Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:00:08 +0000 https://embracedfully.org/?p=2550 Listen to this excellent interview with David Fowler, co-founder of Embraced:Fully, published by the Christian Science Publishing Society on March 23, 2026 edition of “Sentinel Watch.”

Modern-day resurrections – With David Fowler

“This week, we speak with David Fowler, who shares two incredible experiences—one of his own healing of a drug addiction and overdose, the other of working with a violent offender who’d been incarcerated—and how it’s never too late to “resurrect” and transform your life.”

https://sentinel.christianscience.com/sentinel-audio/sentinel-watch/modern-day-resurrections

Listen here:

 

Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service
Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service

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

Embraced Fully Fund
Embraced Fully Fund

↗ 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.

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You’re Invited! Angel Team Workshop Thursday March 19 — Meet AmiLynne Carroll, National Angel Team Coordinator — Save the Date: Conference 2026 in Boulder! https://embracedfully.org/angel-team-workshop-thursday-march-19-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=angel-team-workshop-thursday-march-19-2026 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:54:00 +0000 https://embracedfully.org/?p=2470 Aerial view of Boulder, Colorado with Flatirons

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:

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.

Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service
Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service

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

Embraced Fully Fund
Embraced Fully Fund

↗️ 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.

Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service
Marshall, Byron, and David after Byron’s first church service

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

Embraced Fully Fund
Embraced Fully Fund

↗️ 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.

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