Taking Jesus seriously about visiting prisoners, folks from Rise Up Industries. Next.

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for Living Understanding and Defending

Your Catholic Faith. I'm Psy Kell at Your Host. And today, a special bonus episode. Jesus has

so many good friends. Sometimes his very best friends are very close to you and you didn't even

know it. And just a few miles away from us, a wonderful ministry, a ministry that started with

visiting prisoners and now is working on keeping people out of prison, keeping people out of the

kind of life that leads to prison and helping those who are out of prison, some of who have

spent most of their life in prison or similar institutions, and helping them to get the training

and the support and the help that they need to thrive in the world. It's called Rise Up Industries.

Two guests, Joseph and Mike here to talk about it. Here's what they had to say.

Mike Lucero and Joe Galbreath, thank you both for being here with us on Catholic Answers Focus.

Pleasure being here. I'm very interested in what you do. We do a ministry here that's all talk

and no action. And it's very nice to have guys in here whose ministry is action. So which of you

was first related to Rise Up Industries? Who got their first? All right, so tell us a little bit

about Rise Up Industries then and how you became associated with it. If you wouldn't mind.

Well, Rise Up Industries is a non-profit. Our mission is to minimize street gang activity in San Diego

by providing integrated gang prevention, gang intervention and post-attention reentry programs.

And we got started. A number of us had been working in Cairo's prison ministry,

and one of the inmates, we were working at Donovan. Okay. And one of the inmates who had been through

Cairo's had read one of the books going around the Cairo's community, which was Father Boyle's

book Tattoos on the Heart. And he challenged one of the Cairo's volunteers to invite Father Boyle to

come down and speak in Yarday at Donovan. So the invitation went out and Father Boyle accepted it

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