Program: #5108
Topic: Community
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)

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SPIRITUAL JOURNEY SEGMENT

 
Ex-prisoner, Julio Medina, founded a non-profit organization to help other ex-offenders discover what he found – a life transformed.

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MESSAGE SEGMENT

 
Julio Medina earned a degree from New York Theological Seminary while serving time in prison. After his release he founded Exodus Transitional Community to help integrate other ex-offenders back into the community. He tells his own story of what it means to be redeemed.

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INTERVIEW SEGMENT

 
Hosts Lillian Daniel and Lydia Talbot in conversation with Julio Medina who says "If you lose hope in prison, it's over for you . . . . I couldn't lose hope. Not for me, not for my family . . . I just had to remain hopeful."

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REFLECTION SEGMENT

 
Christine Chakoian, Senior Pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, Illinois, says our true home is in God's heart, where we will always belong.

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