Recently I met a middle school girl while speaking at a school assembly. When the teacher introduced her to me she told this teenage girl that I have a ministry to youth from difficult situations. The girl looked at me with a huge smile and said, “Next week I will be in juvenile court and [...]

Our ministry is excited about the new opportunities for 2012 to touch more lives in a positive way. The Jersey Effect book will be released in the next few weeks and after more than a year of writing, re-writing, editing and interviewing it will be exciting to see how God uses the message to impact [...]

“I started drinking and smoking when I was eight. A few years later I started committing other crimes. Now I’m seventeen and it’s time for my life to change.” These words flowed out of a young man I met this morning at the Man Up Conference held at the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center in [...]

On Saturday, October 15, 2011 High Impact Teens will host the Man Up Conference at the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is the fourth time the event has been held at the MCJDC and it is shaping up to be the best one ever. Speakers include: Hunter Smith, former punter for [...]

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Conference led by High Impact Teens A conference for troubled youth held at the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center Indianapolis, Indiana October 15, 2011 High Impact Men teaching teens to become High Impact Men! Ken Turner Ministries is honored to partner with the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center and lead the Man Up Conference, teaching [...]

Eugene Schneeberg and I met last fall in Indianapolis. All Pro Dad sponsored a prison ministry event and I had the privilege of speaking at the event along with Tony Dungy. Eugene attended and took part in the day as a director with the Office of Faith Based Partnerships of the White House. Since that [...]

Last November Darrin Gray of All Pro Dad approached me about a very exciting project. Darrin and Hunter Smith had been discussing the prospect of writing a book and they invited me to become a partner in the project. The book is titled, “The Jersey Effect” and is an inside look at “Uncovering the Truth [...]

I would encourage you to check out All Pro Dad, the fatherhood program founded by Tony Dungy. Thousands of dads receive their “Play of the Day” email, attend a once per month breakfast with their kids and their NFL Father and Kids events. Over the past couple years I have had the opportunity to speak [...]

Richard sent a letter to me several years ago. I was a youth pastor in South Bend, Indiana and  one day I grabbed my office mail and saw an unusual letter in the stack. The envelope had certain “disclaimers” printed on it from the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Not the kind of thing [...]