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  Maryland Kairos
The mission of the Kairos Prison Ministry is to bring Christ's love and forgiveness to all incarcerated individuals, their families and those who work with them, and to assist in the transition of becoming a productive citizen.
Kairos volunteers have experience in renewal movements within their churches, which focus on small group dynamics, share and prayer groups, personal witness and vulnerability in Christian community.
Kairos Outside is a special weekend retreat designed to support the female loved ones of men and women who are or have been incarcerated.
www.marylandkairos.org   (474 words)

  
  Kairos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kairos Prison Ministry is an independent and highly ecumenical organization that draws its members and leadership from Cursillo groups and from such Cursillo-derived groups as Via de Cristo, Walk To Emmaus, and Tres Dias.
Kairos was central to the Sophists, who stressed the rhetor's ability to adapt to and take advantage of changing, contingent circumstances.
Kairos is described in the verses of the poet Posidippos.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kairos   (1193 words)

  
 Kairos Prison Ministry
The job of Kairos on the introductory weekend is to encourage the residents to remove their masks so that the team can pour agape on the real person rather than on the person they pretend to be.
The Kairos advisory council speaker and his/her topic are chosen by the advisory council to refresh the residents' memories about one of the talks or meditations from the 3-day short course.
Kairos is resolved to do nothing which would contribute to making any resident more dependent upon Kairos team members than upon their Christian brothers/sisters in the compound.
www.cpawebsite.com /kairos/overview.htm   (3520 words)

  
 News
Kairos Outside is an ecumenical ministry for women who have been affected by the imprisonment of a loved one, where they can learn how to cope with the incarceration.
The Kairos Outside weekend is a Christian-based approach to healing for women with a loved one in prison but women of all faiths are welcome.
Kairos Outside is specially designed to create a sacred and safe environment for these women, who often feel hopeless, isolated and alone.
www.kairosofsandiego.org /news.htm   (579 words)

  
 Kairos Prison Ministry of San Diego
Kairos communities are well organized and well trained volunteer teams of men and women drawn from the communities surrounding an institution present an introductory 3-day weekend described as a short course in Christianity.
Kairos is an inter-denominational prison ministry designed for use in state and federal men's and women's correctional institutions of the US and abroad.
KAIROS was found to be a work of very special significance in the environment of the correctional institution where the work "time" carries so many special connotations.
www.kairosofsandiego.org   (536 words)

  
 Kairos
Kairos is a continuing prison ministry launched with the presentation of a 3-day short course in Christianity in a correctional institution.
Kairos weekends, with their subsequent 2-day retreats, take place every six months once the ministry is launched in an institution.
Kairos files are full of letters from prison superintendents, wardens, correctional officers and other members of the criminal justice system detailing the extremely favorable impact the Kairos ministry has had on the quality of life in prisons across the country and in Canada.
www.emmanuelfullerton.org /Renewal/kairos.htm   (787 words)

  
 Kairos Prison Ministry of Georgia::Love, Love, Listen, Listen | Fact Sheet | Kairos Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Kairos is a Christian, lay-led, ecumenical, volunteer international prison ministry, in which men and women volunteers bring Christ’s love and forgiveness to incarcerated individuals and to their families.
Kairos volunteers go into prisons in teams of 30 to 40 to pray, share the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ, share meals, and fellowship with the incarcerated on a one-to-one basis.
Kairos Outside provides spiritual healing to families of the incarcerated, who often feel that they too are “doing time”.
www.kairosofgeorgia.org /index.php?id=22,0,0,1,0,0   (543 words)

  
 Kairos: Layers of Meaning (Metaphor)
Kairos is an ancient Greek word that means "the right moment'" or "the opportune." The two meanings of the word apparently come from two different sources.
Putting the two meanings together, one might understand kairos to refer to a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved.
Aristotle himself identifies kairos as intrinsically related to audience--that is, it is important to get the attention of the audience, but to occasionally choose a moment to re-awaken them to the attention of the speaker.
english.ttu.edu /kairos/layers/metaphor.html   (316 words)

  
 Kairos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Kairos is a many layered concept of time which is defined by its purely qualitative measurement.
The great Greek philosophers were very interested with the attainment of kairos, particularly within the walls of the courtroom where the word came to be a legal concept of equity.
It has been said that kairos implies "a season when something appropriately happens that cannot happen just at any time...to a time that marks an opportunity which may not recur." The word kairos reflects unique moments in the temporal process - moments in which something exceptional can happen or be accomplished.
www.kairosfinancial.net /kairos.htm   (509 words)

  
 Kairos
Kairos is an interdenominational Christian ministry to and for prison inmates.
The basic Kairos event is an intensive 3½ day short course in Christianity, held inside the prison, and staffed by volunteers who are happy to share their lives with the residents.
Kairos is a Greek word meaning 'special time' or 'appointed time', and we like to think of it as 'God's special time' as residents and team share together through talks, meditations, sharing, praise and worship, prayer, meals and being in community as the Body of Christ.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Troy/1559   (620 words)

  
 Kairos of Texas - Kairos of Texas Home Page
Kairos Prison Ministry International, Inc. is the parent organization of a body of ministries operating as Chapters that are located in many States and Countries addressing the spiritual needs of incarcerated men, women and children, and to their families and to those who work in the prison environment.
Kairos sprang from the Cursillo movement and is supported by Christian volunteers including those from Cursillo and those other movements that consider Cursillo as their root.
Kairos of Texas operates as a State Chapter and serves in prisons and Jails through a contractual agreement with the Warden and Chaplain of each unit.
www.kairosoftexas.org   (405 words)

  
 About the Kairos Program
Kairos is an ecumenical Christian ministry whose programs are designed to be presented in state and federal men’s and women’s correctional institutions in the U.S. with adaptations for other countries and languages.
The objective of Kairos is to impact the correctional environment through the action of the leaders, as apostles of Jesus Christ, in all areas of human activity in the pnson.
It is conducted in the institution by an ecumenical team of laity and clergy in cooperation with the chaplain of the institution.
www.kairosohio.org /KairosSnapshot.html   (3584 words)

  
 Alabama Kairos Prison Ministry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Kairos Prison Ministry International, Inc. is the parent organization of a body of ministries addressing the spiritual needs of incarcerated men, women and children, to their families and to those who work in the prison environment.
Kairos sprang from the Cursillo movement and is supported by volunteers from Cursillo and those other movements that consider Cursillo as their root.
Kairos Prison Ministry International, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation chartered in the State of Florida and has become known as Kairos Prison Ministry.
www.kairos-al.org   (403 words)

  
 Kairos Outside
Kairos Outside is designed to support the families of men and women who are or have been incarcerated in the country's state and federal correctional facilities, as well as county jails and youth offender programs.
The Kairos Prison Ministry is an excellent vehicle to provide for a spiritual experience on the inside, while Kairos Outside is designed to bolster the loved ones who are supporting those incarcerated persons.
Kairos Outside is a blend of the movement on the street, Cursillo, which spawned Kairos years ago and the Kairos Prison Ministry which is spreading to so many of our nation's correctional institutions.
www.kairosprisonministry.org /templates/System/details.asp?id=23761&PID=76857&Style=   (576 words)

  
 Kairos-Meade - We Make Things Happen!
His "kairos" had not yet come, is said of Jesus; and then it had once at some time or other come, en kairo, in the moment of the fullness of time.
The Christ event is for Tillich the Kairos, "the moment at which history, in terms of a concrete situation, had matured to the point of being able to receive the breakthrough of the central manifestation of the Kingdom of God.
It is one thing to suggest that kairos is "objectively presented" at the right time according to particular traditions or divine actions; it is another thing entirely to suggest that kairos is seized according to the spontaneous needs of the occasion and the speaker.
www.kairos-meade.com /kairos.html   (852 words)

  
 Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Kairos
Kairos in its unique and universal sense is, for Christian faith, the appearing of Jesus as the Christ.
Kairos in its general and special sense for the philosopher of history is every turning-point in history in which the eternal judges and transforms the temporal.
Kairos is its special sense, as decisive for our present situation, is the coming of a new theonomy on the soil of a secularized and emptied autonomous culture.
academics.vmi.edu /eng_rt/rwe_kairos.htm   (4092 words)

  
 CowPi: Kairos -- God's Time
Successful passage of a kairos requires, therefore, that the archer’s arrow be fired not only accurately but with enough power for it to penetrate.
Kairos time is the time needed to seek out the “golden thread” woven through the fabric of life.
Kairos time is the moment, of undetermined length, in which the eternal (God) breaks into the temporal (the universe), shattering and transforming it, and prepares the temporal to receive the eternal.
cowpi.com /journal/2003/10/kairos_gods_time.html   (1366 words)

  
 Kansas Kairos Prison Ministry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Kairos leadership is drawn from lay persons, although clergy play a vital role.
Kairos is an overwhelmingly volunteer organization, with over 20,000 volunteers worldwide.
Kairos has a positive impact on inmates to such a degree that they are much less likely to return to prison after release.
www.sfive.net /kskairos   (407 words)

  
 Kairos Prison Ministry International
It is imperative that each Kairos team member understand the importance of Kairos as a ministry of the church and a ministry of the apostle whom Jesus, the Christ, has called into community, and sent forth into the environment of the correctional institution.
Kairos is a ministry of persons drawn from a broad range of Christian churches.
It is vital to insure that the ecumenical nature of the Kairos ministry be upheld, and this requires not only that team members come from a variety of Christian churches, but also that ALL who participate refrain from activities that are practiced by their particular Christian church while serving as a Kairos volunteer.
www.kairosohio.org /Policy-KPMI_Ecumenism.htm   (406 words)

  
 From the Heart-Prison Ministry Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Kairos is held inside of prison walls, and all of the pilgrims are inmates.
Part of a Kairos weekend is a Commitment Service where inmates and team have the opportunity to accept Jesus, re-dedicate their lives, or dedicate something in their lives to Jesus.
A Kairos weekend in prison is an extremely powerful experience and there are many blessings along the way not only for the prisoners but also for team members.
www.kairosnc.org /from_the_heart_.html   (4087 words)

  
 DEC Kairos
Kairos is an ecumenical prison ministry adapted from the Emmaus/Cursillo tradition.
Kairos ‘Outside’ is designed to let those families know that there is a community that cares about them and their needs.
We hope Kairos ‘Outside’ will help them find strength for their life journeys and give them a chance to find and build friendships that may last a lifetime.
www.dallasemmaus.org /Kairos.html   (1495 words)

  
 Kairos Outside
Kairos Outside is an ecumenical ministry for women who have been affected by the imprisonment of a loved one, where they can learn how to cope with the incarceration.
The Kairos Outside workshop is a Christian-based approach to healing for women with a loved one in prison, but women of all faiths are welcome.
Kairos Outside is specially designed to create a sacred and safe environment for these women, who often feel hopeless, isolated and alone.
www.acfnewsource.org /religion/kairos_outside.html   (676 words)

  
 Kairos of Texas - About Kairos Outside
Kairos Outside is a related ministry of Kairos Prison Ministry, Inc, an International prison ministry organized as a Not-for-Profit Corporation chartered in the State of Florida.
Kairos Outside began in 1989 as an idea from the Chaplain at San Quentin State Correctional Facility in California After the first Kairos Prison Ministry Weekend, he felt, along with others involved in The Ministry, that those who became involved in the Kairos program were now open to family unity, more so than ever before.
The Kairos Prison Ministry is an excellent vehicle to provide for a spiritual experience on the inside, while Kairos Outside is designed to bolster the relatives/friends who are supporting those incarcerated persons The women on the outside, in many ways, have to be stronger than those on the inside to survive in today's world.
www.kairosoftexas.org /?page=kairosoutside/kairos_outside   (561 words)

  
 CowPi: Kairos -- God's Time
Kairos time usually involves a period of disruption to the normal flow of things.
Kairos time is the time needed to seek out the “golden thread” woven through the fabric of life.
Kairos time is the moment, of undetermined length, in which the eternal (God) breaks into the temporal (the universe), shattering and transforming it, and prepares the temporal to receive the eternal.
journal.cowpi.com /2003/10/kairos_gods_time   (1328 words)

  
 Caring for Health
Kairos Therapy is a specific form of hands-on emotional and physical healing that uses the chi flowing between our hands to gently release blockages that we hold in the biofield within our body.
At the heart of Kairos is the belief that each one of us has the potential for healing and transforming our pain.
Kairos may be your first step on that path, or part of your ongoing process.
home.btconnect.com /CRAIGNISH-VILLAG/Caringforhealth/kairos.html   (324 words)

  
 Fundacion Kairós
The Kairos Community of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is made up of members of various evangelical churches who have come together in order to grow and to work together in various ministries.
In 1987 the Kairos Community was legally constituted as Fundación Kairós, an Argentine non-profit organization with an interdenominational board of directors.
The aim of From America to America and the World is to bring to you in the United States and in other geographic areas not only news about their activities, but also some of the fruits of the rich interdisciplinary theological reflection coming out of the other America, the America south of Rio Grande.
www.kairos.org.ar /articulo.php?ID=175   (177 words)

  
 CD Baby: KAIROS: rethink : reshape
Kairos was formed at the beginning of the millennium by brothers, Jason and Josh Sturm.
Kairos recorded their first album in 2002, including songs, "Digging through Sand," "Shine," and "Possessions." Just when everything began to settle and take off, Dominic had to leave the group for unforeseeable circumstances.
As the name kairos indicates, time and fate have always played a big part in the history of the band, but somehow all the members of Kairos know that fate is not finished with them just yet.
cdbaby.com /cd/kairosmusic   (497 words)

  
 CAERUS : Greek god or spirit of opportunity ; mythology : KAIROS, OCCASIO
KAIROS (or Caerus) was the god or spirit (daimon) of opportunity, the youngest divine son of Zeus.
Kairos (Opportunity) was represented in a statue of bronze, in which art vied with nature.
Kairos was a youth, from head to foot resplendent with the bloom of youth.
www.theoi.com /Daimon/Kairos.html   (411 words)

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