Friends of Dismas |

Our Vision

To build a community of hope by enabling people of faith to get involved in creative and healing activities to persons touched by...

The Ministry of Friendship encourages the faithful to extend the hand of friendship and to get involved in a high degree of commitment with an ex-prisoner through fellowship and ‘walking together’....

The Ministry of Works

The Ministry of Works engages volunteers in activities that provide the ex-prisoner, their family and others touched by crime with practical reintegration...

The Ministry of Prayer

The Ministry of Prayer provides members of the community with meaningful, low risk level of association that serves as a direct spiritual support to individuals and is a parish building block to growing the impact of Friends of...

Weavings: Our Newsletter

In Weavings, our email newsletter,we tell our stories and reflect on our community ministry with men and women coming home from prison and others touched by crime. Click here for more information about Weavings and we invite you to join our mailing list by signing up...

Our Stories

Everyone has a story and needs a place to share it, in all its joy and sadness. We are shaped by the potter’s hands. Here are some of our...

Imagine: By: Donald Tremblay

Imagine the world and all its complexities Imagine the galaxies and all its intricacies Imagine the universe and all its design Imagine the intellect which is God’s mind By: Donald...

Notable Quote

“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.” ― Jean Vanier...

Visit Our Blog

We invite you to drop Our Blog to find out what is happening in the world. Please feel free to send us a post you might want to have posted or a comment on an article we have published. Our Blog and the Weavings Newsletter are ways we stay in touch as a community of...