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Life After Incarceration

Thousands of Texas prisoners are released annually and reenter our communities. Many have the best intention of becoming law-abiding citizens, yet most have few job skills, lack a formal education, and experience discrimination in housing and job markets because of their felony records.

Few will come home to healthy families and caring friends. Many have no home to go back to at all. Left to themselves, most will return to the same destructive people and patterns they knew before.

As a result, they become our local statistics—the under-educated, the unskilled, the unemployed, the impoverished, the homeless. Unable to make it in the conventional world, over 60% are rearrested for a new crime within three years.

Part of the Simple Acts mission is to help break this cycle by providing immediate resource needs, a live-in hospitality house and reentry program, social service networking and a relational community of support on the outside - including mentors, classes and groups.

Paying attention, as well, to the needs for spiritual learning, growth and fellowship within this community is what sets Simple Acts apart from most other prison aftercare models.

SAM's Place

Currently, one of our most exciting projects is the creation of “SAM’s Place,” a faith-based hospitality house that will provide a 9-12 month live-in program for up to 20 men who’ve been recently released from prison. Our program is designed to equip them with skills for recovery, responsibility and productive reentry into the free world.

Our aim is for each man to graduate from SAM’s Place with these goals in place:

            1. Sobriety as a Lifestyle
           2. Sustainable Employment
           3. Spiritual Community
           4. Strength of Character
           5. Service as a Practice

Residency is offered to those who agree to make a continual investment in their spiritual growth. Each man will work with a mentor, attend weekly classes, recovery meetings and church services, as well as adhere to other requirements designed to keep them on the right track. SAM's Place residents will be expected to pay rent and find employment during their stay.

A printable application may be found on the "forms" page, or write us at: P.O. Box 6601, Lubbock, TX 79424

Freedom Fellowship

Freedom Fellowship Meeting

We are currently on break and will NOT be meeting
Please check again later for our new schedule

Getting free was half the battle.
Staying free is the real challenge.

It takes more than willpower to live a changed life.
It takes faith. It takes people who want to help.

Freedom Fellowship is a place where you'll find those people. It’s the center piece of our community on the outside. This is a gathering for all who have been affected by incarceration, including former inmates, families and friends. It's a casual meeting where you can be yourself. We eat together, talk to friends and discuss the issues that matter to everyone.

God has answers to the tough questions.
Come and join us. We guarantee you’ll find a place among friends.

Classes And Groups

Life Skills & Spiritual Growth Classes
Will begin with the opening of SAM's Place

Men's Accountability - Small Group
Thursdays, 7:00 pm.
Oakwood United Methodist Church

Additional Small Groups
will be forming soon ...

Furniture Ministry

Through our furniture ministry warehouse, we offer donated furniture and household items to former inmates and their families.

Qualified recipients receive a "maximum limit" voucher based on estimated furniture values. In exchange for goods, each recipient agrees to donate volunteer hours to projects run by Simple Acts or other similar organizations.

Contact us at (806) 407-4726 for operating hours

Car Ministry

Through our car ministry, we receive donated used automobiles. We utilize volunteer mechanics to make necessary repairs and offer them at a low cost to ex-inmates and their families without transportation.

Call us at (806) 407-4726 for current availability