2024 ACA Nashville Program Book_154th Congress of Correction

and the Game Plan for Life Ministry FAITH-BASED PLENARY SESSION WITH JOE GIBBS

Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024 10–11:30 a.m. Davidson Ballroom B Music City Center

Coach Joe Gibbs Esteemed NFL Coach, Championship NASCAR Team Owner and Faith-Based Leader

Annette Chambers-Smith

Burl Cain Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections

Bryan Collier Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Ricky D. Dixon Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

Todd Ishee Secretary, North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections

Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

Understand the power of faith-based programming in creating transformational opportunities resulting in reductions in institutional violence and creating post-release success. Four state directors will join coach Gibbs on this panel and discuss how each of their states are enforcing faith-based initiatives.

A s the head coach of an NFL football team from 1981-1992 and 2004-2007, Coach Joe Gibbs led them to nine playoff appearanc es, four NFC Championship titles and three Super Bowl wins over 16 total seasons, earning induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. As founder and team owner of Joe Gibbs Racing, he clinched five NASCAR Championships and was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame, making him the only person to be inducted into two Hall of Fames.

Joe also founded Game Plan for Life in 2009, a ministry aimed at spreading the message of Christ to all by empowering them to let God be their head coach. In 2016, Coach Gibbs, in collaboration with NCDAC and SEBTS, initiated a seminary in the North Carolina Prison System, where North Carolina Field Ministers currently serve in 13 prisons throughout the state.

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