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    • Home
    • About Us
      • Mission & Values
      • History & Logo
    • Guests
      • The Weekend Experience
      • Commonly Asked Questions
      • Videos
      • Request Info
      • Reservation Form
      • Download Forms
    • Volunteers
      • Get Involved
      • Videos
      • Volunteer Questionnaire
      • Team Application
      • Day Angel Application
      • Spiritual Dir Application
      • Download Forms
    • Events
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Kairos of North Carolina
Kairos Outside
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Mission & Values
    • History & Logo
  • Guests
    • The Weekend Experience
    • Commonly Asked Questions
    • Videos
    • Request Info
    • Reservation Form
    • Download Forms
  • Volunteers
    • Get Involved
    • Videos
    • Volunteer Questionnaire
    • Team Application
    • Day Angel Application
    • Spiritual Dir Application
    • Download Forms
  • Events
  • Donate
  • Contact Us

History of KO Weekend

How Kairos Outside Weekend Began


The idea of Kairos Outside came from the chaplain at San Quentin State Correctional Facility in California in 1989.  After the first Kairos Inside weekend, he, along with others involved in the Kairos ministry, felt that the prisoners who became involved in the Kairos program were now open to family unity, more so than ever before.  


He asked Kairos to create a program that would minister to the female family members of the incarcerated.  California volunteer, Jo Chapman, and several other volunteers took the chaplain’s idea and developed the Kairos Outside program.  The first Kairos Outside Weekend was held in Northern California in 1990.

Kairos Outside Logo

The KO logo, designed by a graphic artist friend of an early volunteer, symbolizes the Kairos Outside Weekend Experience.   The heart, the container, represents God’s love with the male and female silhouettes found in the middle. God's love unifies the inside (prison with bars) and the outside (darkness and unseen bars).  It shows women doing time right along with those inside.

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