OJPM Spring Luncheon 2021

March 19, 2021 Fundraising, OJPM Spring Luncheon

Honoring

Tom Pace

Tom Pace — Spirit Award

Pace is a mentor, author, founder and CEO of Oklahoma City based PaceButler. Pace is a sought-after motivational speaker that is as comfortable sharing with students, inmates and civic leaders as well as fellow CEOs.

Pace’s book, Mentor: The Kid & The CEO, is especially popular with inmates. Pace has donated thousands of copies of Mentor as well as The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren to OJPM that have been distributed throughout the 16 jails in which we minister.

Keitha Hall-Bert

Keitha Hall-Bert — Sower Award

Corporal Hall has served in the OJPM Female Chaplain’s Office on the sixth floor of the Oklahoma County Jail since June of 2002. Hall is a detention officer with the Oklahoma County Detention Center who sees her responsibilities going beyond the normal job description to minister to the incarcerated ladies.

Here are a few memories of our 2021 Spring Luncheon

Bill Farley Development Director

Bill Farley Development Director

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Always Call Sin “Sin:”
It is no favor to the counselee to call sin “sickness” or “a genetic problem.” The kindest thing to do is tell the truth. There is hope in right labeling. Jesus came to forgive and to defeat sin. He doesn’t promise to change our genes or to heal all our sicknesses. Names are important. Names can be signs and sign posts: they point to solutions. “Sickness” points to the physician; “sin: points to Jesus Christ.

Never Minimize:

Don’t minimize the severity of a counselee’s problem. Nor should you minimize his negative evaluation of himself. It isn’t easy for a sinner to admit his sin. Some, meaning well, do poorly instead when they say things like, “O, come on, John, you haven’t been that bad.” If a woman says, “I’ve been a miserable failure as a mother,” take her seriously. Say something like this in response: “That is serious; tell me how bad a mother you have been.” Minimize neither the evaluation that the counselee makes, nor the severity of his situation. Rather, maximize the Savior: “Yes, your situation is really bad, but – thank God – Jesus Christ can solve problems even that serious.”