by Amy Cain | Nov 12, 2020 | Latest News, Stories
James didn’t want to believe the gut-wrenching news he’d just been given: his son had been killed. The last time he had seen his son in person was fourteen years prior, when his son was only five years old. James had been entangled in drugs and alcohol for years, and...
by Amy Cain | Aug 6, 2020 | Latest News, Stories
Steven just finished his final lesson in the Crossroads mentorship program. As he studied the Bible throughout his years in the program, he not only learned about his Creator and Savior, but he also grew to understand himself. “Since I was a child, I never had an...
by Amy Cain | Apr 23, 2020 | Latest News, Stories
You’re worthless. You’re stupid. You’ll always be a failure. These were the words Terry heard over and over as he grew up. Longing for love from his father, he instead received emotional and physical abuse. “I became angry and started hating my father, wondering why...
by Amy Cain | Oct 1, 2019 | Latest News, Stories
Erik gripped the wheel, his mind racing, and willed himself to continue driving. His destination: the police station. He had decided to turn himself in. “I was so embarrassed and ashamed of myself,” Erik recalls. “The whole drive to the police station, I thought about...
by Amy Cain | Jul 31, 2019 | Latest News, Stories
“My life is awesome!” This is not a statement you would expect from someone who is serving a twenty-five-year prison sentence and has been isolated in solitary confinement for the past year and a half. But it is exactly what Crossroads student Buddy wrote in his...
