Get Involved

Everyone is transformed in this work: kids, mentors, and communities.

Volunteering with reVision

  • Mentoring

    Our most valuable connections come from one-on-one mentoring. Our volunteers meet with teens for one hour a week in schools, juvenile justice settings and at our Gethsemane campus.

  • First Friday

    Youth serving adult sentences are incarcerated at the Ellis Unit in Huntsville. We match youth with mentors, write them letters and send them birthday cards. On the First Friday of every month we travel to Huntsville to bring them pizza and connect through art, music and dance projects.

  • Events

    Every Thursday is CommUnity night. We welcome students to our Gethsemane campus for food, activities and fellowship. Our volunteers make these a success by pitching in and by being positive role-models.

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Tutoring

Make a positive impact on the lives of struggling students by volunteering as a tutor at our drop-in center or Lamar High School.

Events

Join us every Thursday for CommUnity Night and make a difference in the lives of our youth by volunteering as a mentor, activity leader, or food server. We can always use help at this event and at various fundraising gatherings.

Occasional Help

ReVision occasionally needs volunteers to help us with matters such as addressing holiday cards to our incarcerated youth, helping out on the day of events that we hold for our kids, moving an unstably housed young person into their own apartment and more.

First Friday

Help us provide hope and connection to incarcerated youth by becoming a mentor, letter writer, or First Friday volunteer.

Workshops

reVision invites community members to help our young people develop their life skills. This could include teaching them how to set goals, manage their time, solve problems, budgeting, take care of the environment, have good interview skills, etc.

Contact Us

Please reach out to Houston reVision by clicking this button so that we can talk about how you can make a difference in the lives of the youth we serve!

Loving Lamar

Loving Lamar was created to address the unique needs of a growing population of students experiencing homelessness at Lamar High School. All donations to the initiative will support basic needs including food, hygiene supplies, and clothing as well as providing academic, social, and emotional support. Mentoring opportunities are available with these youth.

Loving Lamar partners:
Houston: reVision
St. John the Divine Episcopal Church
St. Luke’s United Methodist Church
Lamar High School Alumni Association

Please make a gift now using the form below.

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transforming lives

a volunteer testimony

“transforming lives, and not just of those being served

The prison pen pals have become my ministry. I do not touch every person to whom I write, but I know that I reach some of the young men. My own spiritual life has been strengthened as well. I listen to Sunday sermons with an ear toward a message that I can share with the young men. I don’t actually preach to them, but I share a verse that is relevant, uplifting, or encouraging.

It has been a gift to share time with these young men who are behind bars. I know nothing about them when we meet at the First Friday pizza party, except the first name. The structure of the parties enables us to share thoughts and/or feelings with each other, and learn a bit without undergoing an interrogation. I have been honored to speak with young men from all over the state with all kinds of backgrounds.

reVision does good work with these young men. It is reinforced to me everytime that I get a message which contains something like this remark – “I feel changed since my baptism. I feel God near me, looking out for me. I never really had anyone like that in my life that really just cares for me. I met God through Revision. So not only did you guys look out for me and not only did you help me change, You saved me. Thank you so much.” Or this – “I still eagerly await your responses, and wonder what you might have in store to share with me! I’m sure life is busy for you and you’ll get back to me when you can but I just wanted to let you know that you are appreciated and I’m blessed to have your friendship!” Not everyone responds, but it is gratifying when I get this in the mail – “I want revision to know that we are grateful for the stuff y’all be doing for coming and giving us some of our childhood back” So many of these young men have had difficult lives that resulted in committing a crime which brought about their incarceration. Some of them are not defeated by this outcome, but can still say – “I ain’t have the best life but what I didn’t have I’m going to make sure my kids have I want my kids to have the best life coming to jail was a bad idea but a good chose cause I won’t of been dead cause of all the people I was beefin with so get to have a lot of time to think about what I really want 4 my life .” I am proud to be a part of this organization that works with the forgotten, outcasts, and marginalized who are easily overlooked.

I look forward to going to my email and seeing that I have a message from one of my pen pals.”
— Patti H.