Kairos Outside of North Carolina

Kairos Outside, Kairos Inside, and Kairos Torch are programs of Kairos Prison Ministry International, with programs in 37 U.S. states, and 9 countries. KPMI is comprised of a community of individuals spiritually freed from the effects of imprisonment reaching all impacted by incarceration, through the love, hope and faith found in Jesus Christ. 

The mission of Kairos Prison Ministry International is to share the transforming love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ to impact the hearts and lives of incarcerated men, women and youth, as well as their families, to become loving and productive citizens of their communities.

We are Christians who believe in the Holy Trinity and honor and live the teachings of the Bible and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We conduct the ministry while inviting all to attend as Guests or Participants in a Kairos Outside Weekend and a program-specific follow‐on activities to build Christian Community. 

Kairos Prison Ministry Core Values guide our behavior and actions as a board, staff, and volunteers:

While we empower the local volunteers to conduct the prison ministry, we are accountable to excellence and performance at the highest standards and authority of the ministry. We empower Guests or Participants to be accountable for their lives and be transformed by Jesus Christ. 

We believe in the importance of enabling relationships to build community, thus our model includes the Weekend experience, followed by Guests or Participants gathering regularly for accountability, support and prayer. The full complement of the well‐defined returning model is necessary for the community to prosper. 

We believe that we must be honest and truthful in our personal conduct as we represent the ministry consistently and with  integrity. We are obedient to God in everything we do and 
obedient to the guidelines of the Kairos ministry programs. 

We believe in respecting each person with dignity while modeling Christ love. We practice "Listen, Listen, Love, Love."

We believe that we must be good stewards of our ministry’s programs, funds and resources, as well as our personal time, talent and treasures. 

The people of Kairos are called by God to share the love of Christ with those impacted by incarceration. Kairos encourages believers from a variety of Christian traditions to be volunteers in this Christ-filled ministry. Kairos programs offer to prison residents, their families, and those who work with them the opportunity to receive God’s forgiveness through faith in Jesus Christ, and to grow in their faith and servant hood in Christian community. We stand on the common ground of the following elements of faith:

We in Kairos believe that the Bible is God’s authoritative and inspired word for our faith and our lives.  In the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  In the deity, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Friendship with God is a free gift, for God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  The love of Jesus Christ motivates His followers to provide food for the hungry, drink to the thirsty, welcome to the stranger, clothes for the naked and visits to the sick and those in prison.  In sharing the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ with all incarcerated individuals, their families and to those who work with them inside and outside the correctional institution.