She's not afraid to admit it: There are times Amber Frost doesn't feel like going to the Sunday afternoon meeting once a month at Second Baytown. Sometimes she's having a bad day, or her two kids are acting up. But no matter what, she shows up at the church every single time.

"I make myself come because I know I need to be here," Amber says. "It's so nice to have a group of people who know what I'm going through."

The encouragement Amber receives means so much that she recently invited an unlikely acquaintance: the mother of her ex-boyfriend's first child. Things used to be tense between the two women, but that's water under the bridge now. And Amber knows that as parents raising their kids on their own due to incarceration, they both need all the support they can get.