After a failed bank robbery and a high-speed chase that ended with his capture, Brian decided he would take his life to avoid going back to prison. When his suicide attempt failed, he found himself alone with God in a suicide-watch cell at the county jail. “I was...
Alexis grew up in a Christian home, but at sixteen, she began to act out and rebel. “I decided to start doing what I wanted. I stopped going to church and started partying,” Alexis recalled. At twenty-one, she had her first baby with a boyfriend. After he got her...
Foundation aims to keep children from following parents to prison Our highest hope for our students at Crossroads is that they will return to their communities as redeemed men and women. But what about the students who might never go home? For those students, we pray...
When Vanessa Gardner went to prison, she told her daughters that they would start over when she got out and never talk about prison again. Instead, Vanessa found her life’s work in Texas prisons, serving men and women behind bars. Since her release, she has earned a...
Crossroads’ Donor Relations Manager Exemplifies the Promise of Redemption A brisk stride, a wide smile, eye-catching bow ties, and a porkpie hat. This is Robert Woldhuis’s signature look. It’s the outward expression of his uncontainable vitality. Robert is the donor...
Laura’s youth was marked by addiction to drugs, men, and wild living. Her addictions were so strong that she became blind to the ways her choices were affecting herself and others. “Those addictions cut me off from reality,” Laura said. “I destroyed my life—and not...
