About Keryx
What are we?
Keryx is a lay-led, non-profit, interdenominational, Christian ministry using the Cursillo method, designed to be conducted in any correctional institution without substantive change in format or procedure.
Our Model
Share The Keryx strategy is to invite inmates (candidates) to attend a 3-day short course in Christianity where they are introduced to Christ’s love and the Keryx community.
Keryx has been called the most effective program at changing basic attitudes of the incarcerated currently offered in prisons. This statement is heard over and over again by prison administrators where the ministry has been active long enough for its impact on the institution to have been evaluated by correctional staff.
Keryx is a highly structured program that promotes solid Christian life-skills. Keryx calls upon a spirituality that has long been dormant in many of the resident leaders with the institution.
Keryx works from a decidedly strong Christian perspective of love for fellow man, but participants need not be Christian to attend.
In today’s world, where polarization of races, cliques, ethnic and political groups has become so pervasive in our environments, the Keryx program has proven to be an effective instrument for breaking down mistrust and animosity. We follow the simple motto of Love, Love, Listen, Listen.
What we believe
1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father,
and in His personal return in power and glory.
4. We believe in the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body
and the life everlasting.
5. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.