Show Summary:

Jon is a dear friend and we plow in the same space of reentry. He's the Executive Director of New Name Ministries and has transitional, or transformational, homes in Fort Worth and Psalm 40 Ranch in Boyd, TX. 

In these home and on the ranch, live are changed, recidivism is reduced to almost zero. 

Pastor Jon is a graduate of Victory Bible Training School and former Graduate Peer Consultant for Supervised Community Treatment of Portland, Maine. His former volunteer activities have included being a volunteer chaplain at the Maine Correctional Center through Gideon's and long term involvement with the Sexual Violence Collaborative of Southern Maine.

 

Jon is ordained in the State of Texas through Apostolic Servant Ministries and provides education and consultations with churches and national organizations on issues of residential re-entry for sex offenders, policies and procedures for sex offenders in the church and public education presentations on "Sex Offender Sense." Jon is currently on the Board of Directors of Texas Voices for Reason and Justice, and also on the National Admin Team of Reform Sex Offenders Laws Inc. He has given testimony twice for civil commitment trials as an expert on sex offender reentry for the state of California.

He is co-author of Unprecedented - How Sex Offender Laws Are Impacting Our Nation.

For the website information and more about Jon and New Name Ministries, and to see pics of Psalm 40 Ranch, visit our show page:

forgivenfelons.org/backgroundcheck

 

Address for New Name Ministries

New Name Ministries PO Box 11694 Fort Worth, TX 76110