:: Juvenile Detention Center Ministries

Breakaway staff and trained volunteers provide outreach services for kids locked up in youth detention facilities, jails, and youthful offender prisons. Most of the kids who attend these services hear the Gospel for the very first time while they are incarcerated. Athletes, youth workers, and volunteers also participate in sports outreaches within juvenile detention facilities for the purpose of building relationships with youths and then the Gospel is clearly presented at the conclusion of each event. Juvenile center ministry profile...

:: Community Wide Outreach Events

Communicating God's "story" through various sports outreaches with extreme sports demos, basketball trick shows, athletic tournaments, strong man exhibitions, testimonies from professional athletes, and more. The Breakaway Xperience is an action sports tour taking the life-changing message of Jesus Christ to this generation of young people through juvenile center outreaches, school assemblies, youth rallies, and community wide church events.

Read more about our extreme sports outreach events here...

:: Aftercare Ministries

Aftercare ministries are provided for kids being released from detention centers or commitment programs and are going back into their communities. These programs include summer camp scholarships, wilderness adventure trips, missions projects, and youth retreats. Breakaway also offers mentoring relationships and assistance with their education and employment skills.

:: Adventure Camps for At-Risk Youth

Breakaway coordinates summer adventure camps for at-risk youth between the ages of 8-14. Using challenges such as kayaking, whitewater rafting, hiking, and other wilderness elements, the camp serves to increase children's resiliency characteristics, spiritual development, self-confidence, social skills, and many other outcomes while communicating the Gospel.

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:: Video Productions

Breakaway produces cutting edge video resources featuring core sports, testimonies of Christian athletes, and cross-cultural Christian music artists, to bring a message of hope to this generation. These productions are customized to reach various cultures and subcultures with the Gospel and are used in over 200 juvenile facilities around the country.

:: Pen Pal Correspondence and Publications

Breakaway develops discipleship curriculum/devotionals/magazines that help youth offenders study the Bible on his/her level and offers correspondence opportunities for incarcerated youths to participate in a pen pal program by corresponding with mature Christians outside of the facility through mail.

:: Ministry to the Families of Incarcerated Youths

A great deal of juvenile delinquency can be traced back to a dysfunctional situation in the home of the youth offender. Our vision is not only for the youth offender to encounter the life-changing power of the Gospel, but also for their families to have similar encounters. Breakaway networks with local churches to provide strategies for reaching the families of youth offenders in their communities (i.e.; holiday outreaches).

:: Workshops and Training Events

Breakaway provides juvenile justice ministry training events and resource workshops to help mobilize and equip communities for reaching troubled youth in their area. These workshops are generally held in conjunction with our regional evangelism crusades, providing a relevant model for local volunteers to get involved with evangelizing and discipling juvenile offenders. More on training and resource workshops...

:: Ministry Resources and Publications

Breakaway is continually developing various multimedia resources that are specifically designed to help volunteers reach incarcerated teens. These resources include video productions that are target-specific for juvenile offenders, CD-Rom resources, PowerPoint tools for use in chapel services, as well as other outreach tools.