Juvenile Detention Homes

Workers from Apostolic Faith churches also hold services similar to the ones held in the adult detention at juvenile correctional institutions. For example, in Portland groups of two to four adults hold informal group discussions each month with youths ranging in age from nine to seventeen. Sometimes several meetings are held at each visit, reaching many young people at a time. Topics ranging from God’s love to the Great Tribulation are discussed. Often, one or two of the youths want some one-on-one talk time, or indicate their desire to pray. The session is closed with prayer, but before workers leave, tracts and Gospel magazines are distributed to those who are interested. Most of these troubled young people ask to be remembered in prayer.