Kairos #3 Closing Ceremony at Crain State Prison, Gatesville, Texas, will be held on Sunday, December 13, 2026.

Please pass on the particulars of this email to any people you have invited to the Closing. This application has to be submitted to be valid.

All approved visitors should be at the entrance by 1:00 PM. An inside team member will be at the entrance to help facilitate getting everyone cleared to enter the prison. All will enter together. You will be escorted to the Closing Ceremony, which is held in Riverside gym.

 

Here are a few tips about entering the prison.

• All vehicles entering the prison property are subject to search.

• It is a felony to have a firearm or ammunition in your car on prison property.

• Please leave purses, wallets, cell phones, pagers, knives, sunglasses unless prescription etc. in your vehicle.

• Bring your car key/car remote only (if you drove) and driver’s license with you to the Visitor Center.

• Wear your Fourth Day Cross, if appropriate.

• An Officer there will take your driver’s license and issue you a visitor badge. You cannot enter without your driver’s license.

• Wear “very conservative-non revealing” clothing. Women please do not wear perfume.

• Do not wear shorts, tank tops, cut-off tops, and pants with holes, blouses without sleeves, blouses with low neck line or open toe shoes.

• Do not wear white as that is the color the inmates wear!!! The saying goes “wear white, spend the night”.

• Do not wear a smart watch – one that accesses WIFI or serves as a phone/computer.

• Slacks and sport shirts for men are appropriate; long dresses, long skirts or slacks are appropriate for ladies.

• Please wear comfortable closed-toe shoes; it is a good walk from the front gate to the Closing area.

• Please also consider a final bathroom stop at the front entrance; there is only one restroom for visitors in the Closing area.

 

This will be an experience and a blessing for you and for the Kairos participants. They do not know you will be attending. Many will be overwhelmed by the attendance of “free world” Brothers and Sisters in Christ.