KAIROS NECX INSIDE
Kairos NECX Inside operates Kairos weekends inside of the Northeast Correctional Complex in Mountain City, Tennessee.
Located in the northeast portion of the state, we have conducted 44 Kairos weekends since 1999 at this institution.
Learn who we are and what we do and open your heart to be part of our Christian Ministry.
History of Kairos at NECX
Good morning. I would like to spend some time talking to you about Kairos. I would like to start off by thanking all of you for your support and use of your facility over the last twenty years. We wouldn’t be able to do it without you. This has been a special and unique relationship which all started when Harry Williams met Mike Long at your local McDonalds. I would like to talk about the overall Kairos program and what goes on during a weekend here at the prison in Mountain City. Intertwined in all this is the “miraculous” story of how you became involved in Kairos. All you see is the extensive use of your kitchen and fellowship hall by us twice a year. We also clutter your lower level with 4,200 dozen home baked cookies. I want to tell you what goes on behind the scenes at the prison. As Paul Harvey used to say I want to tell you “The rest of the story”
Presented at Bethany Baptist Church October 13, 2019
Good morning. I would like to spend some time talking to you about Kairos. I would like to start off by thanking all of you for your support and use of your facility over the last twenty years. We wouldn’t be able to do it without you. This has been a special and unique relationship which all started when Harry Williams met Mike Long at your local McDonalds. I would like to talk about the overall Kairos program and what goes on during a weekend here at the prison in Mountain City. Intertwined in all this is the “miraculous” story of how you became involved in Kairos. All you see is the extensive use of your kitchen and fellowship hall by us twice a year. We also clutter your lower level with 4,200 dozen home baked cookies. I want to tell you what goes on behind the scenes at the prison. As Paul Harvey used to say I want to tell you “The rest of the story”
Good morning. I would like to spend some time talking to you about Kairos. I would like to start off by thanking all of you for your support and use of your facility over the last twenty years. We wouldn’t be able to do it without you. This has been a special and unique relationship which all started when Harry Williams met Mike Long at your local McDonalds. I would like to talk about the overall Kairos program and what goes on during a weekend here at the prison in Mountain City. Intertwined in all this is the “miraculous” story of how you became involved in Kairos. All you see is the extensive use of your kitchen and fellowship hall by us twice a year. We also clutter your lower level with 4,200 dozen home baked cookies. I want to tell you what goes on behind the scenes at the prison. As Paul Harvey used to say I want to tell you “The rest of the story”
Face To Face
By Ron Stukey
I have always enjoyed the fruit of the word-smiths, especially poets and songwriters. They seem to have an almost divine ability to take a few simple words and arrange them into beautiful profound thoughts and emotions. When I was much younger a popular song was titled “What a difference a day makes”. As a recently married, college graduate with a future of hundred’s or thousand’s of days, what kind of a difference could one or two days make? My answer was, little or none. I enjoyed the song’s lyrics and melody, but so on forgot about it. In fact, it was probably many many years dormant in my memory before it surfaced again. Over three decades later the haunting lyric, “What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours,” came out of hiding with explosive force changing our lives forever. Cindy and I were grandparents by this time and life was good. The future held promise of exciting service to others, we had felt the warm fuzzy of seeing lives changed, addicts set free, an encouraging word offering hope and comfort when the world had given up.