The Christian Council for Reconciliation is a non-profit organization dedicated to ministry with prisoners and their families during their incarceration and after their release.  The Council is made up of many volunteers: people from all walks of life, a wide cross-section of organizations, churches, religious orders and social groups who feel called by God to Christ’s ministry of reconciliation: "when I was in prison you visited me" (Gospel of Matthew 25.26).

Our theological preamble, mission statement and vision statement and by-laws can be found here.  These are revised by-laws and were adopted at our Annual Meeting on May 31st, 2008. 

A list of current supporters can be found here. 

In all that the Council does we seek to promote reconciliation between the prisoner and God, the prisoner and self, and the prisoner and others.

Council volunteers share in the ministry in a variety of ways: through visits to federal and  provincial prisons, participation in the Kairos Marathon program, offering leadership at a program at St. Luke's Renewal Centre, serving on the Board of Directors of the Council or on the Springhouse Board of Management.  In addition, volunteers write letters, assist families with special problems and advocate for safe and humane treatment of all prisoners... and the list goes on!

The Council publishes a newsletter twice a year.  In it we seek to tell the story of our work and how the Spirit is actively at work in the lives of the men and women and their families that we work with. 

To obtain a copy of the newsletter or to find our more about the work of the Council please contact us.  Write to us at the address below.  Send us an email.  Call us.  Or, click here for the membership page. Recent newsletters can be found here.

Our Mailing Address
The Christian Council for Reconciliation
261 McGee St. RR#1
Springhill, NS B0M 1X0
Telephone Contacts
Executive Director: (902) 694-2168
Spring House: (902) 597-2171
St. Luke's Renewal Centre: (902) 597-0185