Juvenile Justice Chaplain, Gang Intervention Specialist, Devon Harris Talks Youth Outreach
Breakaway Talk Leadership Podcast: Episode #4
In this episode of the Breakaway Talk podcast we hear the story of Devon Harris, who heads up Full Circle Refuge Ministries in Augusta, Georgia. Devon formerly served in the U.S. Army and now works with juvenile inmates, at-risk youth, and gang members in his region. He shares about his journey to faith in Christ, God's calling to serve young people in the margins of society, and how to make a difference when God has broken your heart for youth coming from hard places.
The Old School Mix Tape: Sure Shot Regi on Drug Addiction, Prison, Basketball Ministry
Breakaway Talk Podcast: Episode #3
In the latest Breakaway Talk podcast episode, we hear from “Sure Shot Regi” about sports rivalries, basketball life, drug addiction, prison time, finding redemption, mentoring takeaways, endurance for youth workers, and how he was a part of the birth of the Breakaway Outreach sports ministry over 28 years ago!
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Overcoming Childhood Trauma
In 13-Foot Coffins, Breakaway Outreach founder Jimmy Larche chronicles God’s redemptive fingerprints through childhood abandonment, abuse, and fatherlessness.
Read MoreEvery Youth: Tennessee Juvenile Detention Center Outreach

Every Youth: TENNESSEE
Working together to reach every youth in every facility
November 1-2, 2019
ONE GREAT EVENT.
THREE GREAT LOCATIONS:
- Knoxville: November 1 @ 6PM
- Nashville: November 2 @ 9AM
- Memphis: November 2 @ 6 PM
Join the movement to reach every youth in every facility! Giving juvenile justice-involved youth hope and a future.
Contact us for more info about this event or other opportunities to get involved with juvenile detention center ministries in your region.
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Craig Wright Brings Good News to Juveniles with Bike Tricks
Craig Wright is a professional mountain bike trials rider who uses his gifts and talents to share the gospel with young people. We were blessed to have him as part of the Breakaway Xperience this past week, sharing his testimony and proclaiming the life-changing message of Jesus Christ with juvenile inmates in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
In the biking world, ‘trials’ riding is an extreme test of bicycle handling skills, navigating over all kinds of natural and man-made obstacles. Trials riding isn’t a sport based on speed and power, it’s all about balance, poise, and endurance—making for great analogies to spiritual truths and life skills. Craig’s action sports presentation challenged incarcerated youth to see their difficulties and hardships as a means of shaping character and perseverance.
Cwtrials is a ministry of New Mission Systems International and a partner of Next Generation Alliance (Luis Palau Association). If you’d like more information about Cwtrials ministering in your area, visit their website here.
Juvenile Detention Center Ministry Startup Kit
The Juvenile Detention Center Ministry Startup Kit is a great tool for anyone looking to start a ministry in a juvenile detention center as well as a resource kit for those currently involved with juvenile justice ministry.
The kit includes an informative field manual with guidelines and practical methods for institution ministry, startup proposal forms (sample “agreements” to give to the institution), your first 20 Rap Sheets (printable talk sheets) for leading discussions with youth, helpful strategies on working with the administration in juvenile facilities, community based initiatives for at-risk youth, aftercare/re-entry ideas, mentoring toolkit, gang awareness handbook, printable testimonies, and more.
Suggested Donation: $20.00
Cameo’s Story: From Incarceration to Influence
From Incarceration to Influence
Cameo found himself locked up in a juvenile detention center as a teenager. He was “facing some pretty heavy charges,” but found that God’s transformative presence wasn’t bound by bars and fences. He got involved with a Breakaway Bible study and discovered a life-changing relationship with Jesus. He eventually went back to the inner city with a new purpose in life. Today, Cameo is using his musical talents to influence young people with the hope of the Gospel through Christian hip hop.
Juvenile Detention Center Ministry
For nearly 30 years, Breakaway Outreach has been offering chaplaincy services and mobilizing communities to minister to the needs of incarcerated youth and their families.
Our missions network connects caring individuals and church groups with opportunities to serve youth and families impacted by incarceration. We offer training and resources for volunteers to communicate the Good News of God’s unconditional love and mercy—engaging young people as they are met in a variety of youth-serving institutions (detention centers, probation, correctional facilities, group homes, residential treatment centers and emergency shelters). These valued relationships are sustained through ongoing involvement as they re-enter their communities.
Contact us for a FREE juvenile detention center ministry start-up kit.
Youth Talk Sheets: The Life of Jesus Christ
Get youth talking about the Bible… And themselves, their beliefs, their questions, their struggles. Do it conveniently and effectively with our Breakaway Rap Sheets (youth talk sheets).
“Rap Sheets” (talksheets) make Bible conversations interesting and engaging for young people, while offering helpful hints and optional exercises to help youth leaders facilitate effective conversations—without a lot of prep work.
In this turnkey Bible study series focusing on The Life of Jesus Christ, you get three months worth of Bible study lessons (13 weeks) that begin with the birth of Jesus and follows Him on His journey to the cross and the resurrection.
Included is a Leader Guide for each lesson as well as the printable Talk Sheet; a one-page reproducible handout with provocative questions in a compelling design that will get churched and unchurched kids alike, thinking about and discussing the Bible.
These talksheets are very popular with the youth that our ministry serves in juvenile detention centers and residential youth facilities.
This volume contains:
Session One: The Birth of Jesus Christ
Session Two: The Baptism of Jesus
Session Three: The Temptation of Jesus
Session Four: Jesus Heals a Paralytic
Session Five: Jesus Calms The Storm
Session Six: Jesus Feeds The Multitudes
Session Seven: Walking On Water
Session Eight: The Transfiguration
Session Nine: The Last Supper
Session Ten: Gethsemane
Session Eleven: The Crucifixion
Session Twelve: The Resurrection
Session Thirteen: The Great Commission
Outreach Ideas: Birthday Cakes for Juvenile Inmates
Outreach Ideas: Contact your local juvenile detention center and find out if any of the youth have a birthday coming up. Bake them a cake! You’d be surprised how many incarcerated youth cannot remember the last time they had a birthday cake/party. We’ve seen this open up a young person’s heart over and over again.