WIBI, WCIC, Hope Shows and Sara Groves
Family-Friendly WIBI and Hope Shows will renew their partnership to “present songs in the night” for prison inmates in southern Illinois at AgapeFest 2010. Together WIBI and Hope Shows will be raising funds for the Hope Rocks Campaign in support of our next prison concert … and we need your help! 
Visit the WIBI/Hope Shows booths in the vendor pavilion and donate a $10 concert ticket (or more!) for an Illinois inmate to attend a concert in their facility (or give a one-time gift online).
Hope Shows prison concerts are a unique way of carrying out the Matthew 25:36 directive to visit those in prison. Hope Shows events visit inmates with the surrounding hope of the gospel as presented in Christian music … both through performances by contemporary Christian music artists and through the community of Christian music radio, a community available 24/7 to those confined to prison.
Hope Shows concerts provide inmates a brief respite from the realities of prison life, communicate love and support from a church of believers to inmates desperately in need of both, and encourage on-going belief, hope and faith in a God who redeems, renews and recreates our lives from the broken pieces we bring to Him.
The Hope Rocks Campaign (www.HopeRocksCampaign.com) advances the mission of Hope Shows through education and fundraising. Support for the Hope Rocks Campaign accelerates the distribution of Christian music to individuals and communities where it is most needed, primarily in prison facilities. “Hope Rocks” public concerts serve to engage an emerging youth and young adult generation for prison ministry.
LCC Ladies Show Off Personalized Concert Tickets Provided by Hope Rocks Campaign Supporters
WIBI and Hope Shows hosted 500 women at the Lincoln Correctional Center concert last December for a Sara Groves Christmas concert (see video), and expect to have an even larger crowd at the next one. But we can’t do it without you … you and your $10 concert tickets.
Stop by the WIBI/Hope Shows booth on Friday, April 30, or Saturday, May 1, to learn more about prison ministry and the upcoming prison concert.
The Hope Rocks Campaign is sponsored in part by Prison Fellowship’s “Forgive, Don’t Forget” campaign, encouraging the next generation of youth and young adults to remember those in prison. Prison Fellowship offers a “Get A Shirt, Give A Shirt” opportunity to support former inmates as they pursue productive new lives.
“Our U.S. prisons are filled with 2.3 million people. Every year, more than 700,000 are released. And within three years, more than 50 percent of them will be back in prison,” states Prison Fellowship. “You can help an ex-prisoner beat those odds. When you get a Prison Fellowship t-shirt, you also provide a quality dress shirt and tie for an ex-prisoner. Your gift will help Prison Fellowship get it into the hands of someone who really needs it.”
Hope Shows affirms Prison Fellowship in their belief that, “God’s gift of forgiveness and hope extends to those behind bars. He didn’t just see their failures. He saw their pain … and their potential. And He offered them what they needed – forgiveness and new life.”
Help hope show up at AgapeFest 2010 with your support for southern Illinois prison ministry.
P.S. Hope Shows will have pink glow necklaces, “Hope Rocks” 1-1/4″ buttons and “Hope Rocks” t-shirts for purchase during the festival. Proceeds from all merch sales will also benefit the Hope Rocks Campaign …
