Extreme Clergy

Halfway House Chaplain: He befriends the worst of the worst
Friday, May 16th at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT
Monday, May 19th, at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 PT
Chaplain Harry Nigh – Ex-Offenders, Toronto
Mennonite Chaplain Harry Nigh works with the “worst of the worst,” repeat sex offenders and murderers newly released from the Canadian prison system.

Triage Pastor: She comforts the sick of a sick nation
Friday, May 23 at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT
Monday, May 26 at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 PT
Rev Tina Simpson – Haiti
Rev Tina Simpson ignores dire travel warnings and ventures into rural Haiti with a mobile clinic to bring healthcare to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Justice Minister: He shields the defenseless on a river of death
Friday, May 30 at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT
Monday, June 2 at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 PT
Father Bob Holmes – Opon River, Colombia
Christian Peacemaker Father Bob Holmes travels up the Opon River to protect indigenous farmers and fishermen caught between warring factions in a 50 year old civil war.

Water Priest: He digs new wells where war has defiled them
Friday, June 6 at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT
Monday, June 9 at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 PT
Pastor Bill Versteeg – (Lifewater): Liberia
Traveling to Liberia, a country recently ravaged by a brutal civil war, Pastor Bill Versteeg works with the Lifewater team to drill wells to ease the nocuous water crisis.

Combat Chaplains: They guide those who fight our wars
Friday, June 13 at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT
Monday, June 16 at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 PT
Military Chaplains: Padre Rod Buck and Father Gabby Legault – Kandahar, Afghanistan/ Petawawa, Ontario
Recently, the Canadian mission in Afghanistan has shifted from peacekeeping to combat. Two military chaplains offer spiritual guidance to the troops: Father Gabby Legault counsels soldiers about to deploy, and Padre Rod Buck counsels soldiers currently fighting and dying in Kandahar.

Surfing Rabbi: He offers a unique lifestyle to replace a gang lifestyle
Friday, June 27 at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT
Monday, June 30 at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 PT
Rabbi Shifren – Los Angeles
Rabbi Shifren, “the Surfing Rabbi” takes inner city LA high school students surfing for the first time to get them out of their ‘world is a ghetto mentality.’

Shield Pastor: He shields a marked man of the people
Friday, July 11 at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT
Monday, July 14 at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 PT
Father Bob Holmes – Santa Rosa, Colombia
Christian Peacemaker Father Bob Holmes travels to the gold mining community of Santa Rosa where he becomes a human shield for the new union leader whose predecessor was assassinated by the army three weeks earlier.

Inconvenient Pastor: She risks death to help the poor
Friday, July 18 at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT
Monday, July 21 at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 PT
Rev Sharon Ruiz-Duremdes – The Philippines
In the Philippines church leaders who side with the poor and the oppressed have been assassinated. Rev Sharon Ruiz-Duremdes’ mission is to find replacements for the murdered clergy before she, herself, is killed.

Jungle Pastor: He preaches nonviolence to a wounded, angry people
Friday, August 1 at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT
Monday, August 4 at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 PT
Father Daniel Vogt – Guatemala
In recent years, the Quechi people, descendants of the Mayans, have been killed, terrorized and driven off their land in the name of mineral extraction and economic development. Despite threats, Father Daniel Vogt stands with Quechi as they struggle to acquire legal title to their ancestral land.

Child Soldier Pastor: He helps those weaned on brutality to find their lost humanity
Friday, August 15 at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT
Monday, July 18 at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 PT
Rev Jervis Witherspoon – (Child Soldiers): Liberia
After a brutal civil war in Liberia where every faction used child soldiers as young as eight years old, Rev Jervis Witherspoon heads an ambitious program to retrain and rehabilitate all ex-combatants before the precarious situation blows up again.