Horizon Communities in Prison

Ike Griffin

Ike Griffin, D. Min. is President and Executive Director of Horizon Communities in Prison. As executive director of Kairos Prison Ministry for ten years, Ike led over 20,000 volunteers in 31 states, England, South Africa, Canada and Australia, presenting ministry in over 240 medium and maximum-security prisons. He has extensive experience in training workshops. While executive director of Kairos, Griffin developed Horizon Communities in Prison, a faith and character-based, residential program, under grants from the Florida Commission of Responsible Fatherhood.

Honing Horizon over eight years, Griffin has shaped a program in which inmates undergo intensive rehabilitative programming for one year, with a focus on personal responsibility, family responsibility, citizenship and employability. Volunteers from the local community facilitate programs that focus on fatherhood and family relations, anger management, cognitive renewal, computer literacy and avoidance of addictive behavior in preparation for transition into society.

Griffin is the recipient of the Woodrow B. Seals Laity Award from the Perkins School of Theology at his alma mater, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Mickey Griffin

Mickey Bright Griffin, D.Min. serves as the Director of Programming for Horizon Communities in Prison, an award-winning, faith-based, residential program focusing on transition and education. She was involved in its initial design and implementation in 1999 at Tomoka C.I. at Daytona Beach, FL as well as with its expansion in FL, TX, OH and OK. She has worked in both men's and women's prisons and developed the curriculum of the fatherhood program, "Family Reading Ties". She has managed many grants awarded Horizon most recently from the Volunteer Florida Foundation.

Griffin has made presentations at national reentry conferences and participated in numerous Technical Assistance roundtables and conferences presented by HHS on prisoner re-entry and prisoners' family issues. She was also part of the U.S. Department of Labor's Ready4Work pilot project in Jacksonville, FL, conducting interviews and recruitment for that re-entry program. Her Doctor of Ministry degree is from the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, California. She has been active in the Walk to Emmaus in this country and South Africa, as well as Kairos Prison Ministries. She is active at her church, married to Ike Griffin with whom she shares the joys of their children and 14 grandchildren.