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Bridges To Life was featured on Houston’s KTRK Channel 13. The video segment is titled, “Program developed by local man makes statewide impact.” View this video.

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Numerous articles have been published about the unique work of Bridges To Life in both local and national publications.

Awards

John Sage was honored as the first recipient of the Bert Thompson Pioneer Award for Community and Restorative Justice at the National Conference on Restorative Justice in May 2009.

Jim Buffington and Brandon Willard received 2008 Governor’s Criminal Justice Volunteer Service Awards

John Sage received the HYLA Liberty Bell Award and was inducted into the St. Thomas Hall of Honor in 2008.

John and Frances Sage received the Samaritan Spirit Award on October 23.

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Restoring Peace Book: Mending Relationships

ISBN 1-4120-3936-3
Price $10 | Buy Now

RESTORING PEACE – A BOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE TO MEND BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS

The Bridges To Life experience fosters peace, forgiveness, and reconciliation among victims of unthinkable crimes and convicted felons, surrogates for those who committed the crimes. Since the experience works for the most victimized and the most offending of society, it will also work for those in the free world who in lesser but significant ways offend or are offended by strangers, business partners, friends, relatives, or loved ones.

Restoring Peace takes the lessons of Bridges To Life to anyone who hurts or is hurt by another or has seriously broken relationships that need mending. The lessons from prison apply because the situations leading to crime are very similar to those that lead to the conflict most of us face in our daily lives. Both situations involve people’s behavior and not their inherent worth as God’s children. This dichotomy is one of the principles at the heart of the Bridges To Life experience and Restoring Peace.

Anyone seeking peace and reconciliation in his or her life will benefit from these lessons from the Bridges To Life prison ministry. Restoring Peace will teach you how to use this successful restorative justice process to heal relationships with those you have hurt or who have hurt you. It builds on the power of faith and stories to help you deal effectively with responsibility, accountability, confession, repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, and restitution.

Excerpts from the book include:

Bridges to Life Book

Restoring Peace – Using Lessons From Prison to Mend Broken Relationships details the principles used in the Bridges To Life program, combined with actual stories from victim and inmate participants. The book is intended for repairing or improving relationships with others.

Victim Comments

“The first thing that victims must do is learn to live again. This program helps them to accept that change and learn to live and trust again.”

Inmate Comments

“The best part about this program is the small group setting which allows both victim and inmate to be open and honest with one another and the trust, confidence that is built through these groups.”