Anne poses next to the car and recreational vehicle she and Bob towed throughout Australia more than twenty years ago as they visited prisons and churches to recruit students and mentors. An international expansion of Crossroads wasn’t on Tom de Vries’s mind in...
Four decades ago, Doris promised the Lord that she would do anything He asked of her. Two weeks later, after learning about Crossroads from a woman at her church, she became a mentor. In the early days, she recalled, “There were no answer keys; we worked through the...
Terry VerHage, a mentor since 1991, shares her Crossroads story with staff. Most of Terry VerHage’s students have been incarcerated long enough to reach our most advanced courses (Tier 3) and receive a dedicated one-on-one mentor with whom they can exchange...
From the beginning, Crossroads has depended on people from churches to care for incarcerated people by serving as volunteer mentors. For the past four decades, thousands have heeded the call. Among the more than three thousand mentors serving our students, one hundred...
Just as some mentors have served for decades, a small cohort of students have remained with us for twenty years or more. At the end of 2023, Crossroads served fifty-two active students who began their involvement at least twenty years ago. These students are among the...
Tom de Vries found a passion for prison ministry when he joined his father-in-law in visiting the Kent County Jail in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The experience planted seeds in his heart and those of his extended family. This blog post is part of a special series...
