CHChayah
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About Chayah
Chayah brings worship, spiritual wellness, and practical support to people who are incarcerated or returning to society, veterans, and people experiencing indigency. Its work reaches inside Texas prisons through worship, letter exchanges, spiritual guidance, and The Garden Covenant, an approved reentry curriculum. Chayah is also developing transitional housing with work opportunities, mentoring, food, and access to counseling, giving donors a way to support a fuller path forward after incarceration.
Chayah’s prison ministry pairs biblical wellness with practical reentry support. Its work includes The Garden Covenant, an original curriculum approved by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, along with mentoring through Unlocking Doors and plans for transitional housing.
Programs
The concrete work this nonprofit runs. Each program may later become a fundable project.
Prison Ministry
Since 2014, Chayah has brought a biblical wellness message into Texas prisons, led worship for Sabbatarians, provided encouragement through letter exchanges, and taught spiritual techniques for wise decision-making and stress management.
The Garden Covenant
An original curriculum approved by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for integrating spirituality into reentry education for men in trustee camp.
Transitional Housing
Chayah is developing transitional housing intended to provide immediate housing, worship, work opportunities, mentoring, and access to counseling for people leaving prison, veterans, and people experiencing indigency.
Reentry Mentoring
Through its partnership with Unlocking Doors, Chayah provides mentoring for people recently released from prison who want support making healthy decisions, maintaining sobriety, living peacefully, and serving their Creator.
Spiritual Counseling and Prayer Support
Chayah offers prayer-list support and opportunities to talk or pray together, along with spiritual, financial, health, emotional, and mental counseling connected to its charitable mission.
Israel Harvest and Outreach
Chayah participated in Israel's fall grape and olive harvests and offers presentations about the experience and the work of its host ministry.
About this work
Mission
Chayah provides charitable services to alleviate poverty, disease, pain, and suffering through affordable housing, food, worship, work opportunities, and spiritual, financial, health, emotional, and mental counseling for indigent people, veterans, and ex-offenders seeking to reenter society successfully. Its ministry also offers spiritual guidance and reentry support to incarcerated people.
Who they serve
People who are incarcerated or returning to society after incarceration, veterans, indigent people, and people seeking spiritual support. The organization states that its promise of wholeness is intended for every sex and race.
How your donation helps
- Purchasing Bibles for prison ministry
- Food, clothing, and utility bills for five men
- Construction of an industrial aquaponics garden
- Building a meeting hall
- Purchasing land for transitional community buildings
- Building five-person cottages for men returning to society
- Conducting Garden Covenant prison reentry classes
- Housing, work, worship, counseling, and related support for transitional-home residents
Need help?
How someone in need can access Chayah’s services.
People can contact Chayah through its contact form to join the prayer list or provide a phone number to talk or pray together. Men in prison can reach out through Chayah's letter-exchange encouragement ministry. Chayah also partners with Unlocking Doors to provide mentoring for people recently released from prison.
In their words
"This ministry exists because lessons I have learned in my walk on this planet, both before and after I joined hands with Yahweh, are treasures that I believe can help other women and men in their quest for peace." — Melissa Rawlins
"When the worshipers dance unto Yahweh, our Savior Yahshua brings about unity and freedom."
Ways to help
Concrete needs and volunteer roles Chayah has shared.
Current needs
- Land for transitional community buildings
- Materials and furnishings
- Vehicles, tools, utensils, fuel, and food
- Bibles and clothing
- Construction design, engineering, and architectural services
- Consulting and legal services
- Financial support for housing, prison ministry, and reentry classes
Volunteer opportunities
- Ministry
- Fundraising
- Marketing
- Working alongside transitional-home residents
- Mentoring people returning from prison, formerly homeless people, and veterans
- Giving presentations about the Israel harvest experience
Recognition & press
Press & mentions
Partners & funders
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this nonprofit and how its work happens.
How does Chayah's prison ministry support people who are incarcerated?
Chayah leads worship in Texas prisons, teaches spiritual techniques for making wise decisions and managing stress, and uses The Garden Covenant curriculum in an approved reentry setting. It also encourages people through letter exchanges.
What is included in Chayah's transitional housing model?
The proposed model includes immediate housing, worship, work on the premises, mentoring from volunteers, and access to spiritual, financial, health, emotional, and mental counseling from qualified providers.
How does Chayah support people after release from prison?
Through its partnership with Unlocking Doors, Chayah offers mentoring to people recently released from prison who want support making healthy decisions, maintaining sobriety, living peacefully, and serving their Creator.
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