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...
If you had walked into Crossroads’ office in early March, you would have found at least a dozen volunteers hard at work stuffing Bible study lessons into envelopes, sorting mail or entering enrollment forms into a database. If you had stopped by a week later, you...
Marc entered prison twenty-one years ago feeling lost. Raised in a Catholic family, Marc found himself separated from them at an early age. After his parents’ marriage ended in a divorce, he found himself in the foster care system at the age of eight, and he...
When Gabriel Hardley looks back on his life, which he does often, he is filled with gratitude. There are many times he could have wound up dead. When Gabriel’s mother was pregnant with him, his father tried to kill her twice, but she and Gabriel miraculously survived...
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...
Stories like Joshua’s rarely end well. He was hooked on marijuana, prescription pills and alcohol by 16. His experimenting turned into a full-blown addiction after the death of his father when Joshua was 18. “I became depressed. I started abusing substances more...
