When Jerry wrote his first letter to Shep, he didn’t receive a response. He tried again—no response. After his third attempt, he received a hostile reply from Shep: “I never wanted no Christian pen pal; somebody put my name in as a joke!” Eager to serve God from home...
Pastor Dhan Lama (right) with Crossroads mentors in eastern Nepal. Ministry is at the core of Dhan Lama’s family life. “I was born in a Buddhist family, but when I was two years old, my family accepted Jesus,” he said. His parents sent him to a missionary...
We receive dozens of letters from students every winter thanking us for remembering them at Christmas with a card. Last January, we received an especially heartfelt letter from a student named Mark. His letter of thanks opened a window into Mark’s life that we are...
At Crossroads, our Bible study lessons are the central component of our correspondence ministry that connects students and mentors as they study God’s Word together. Our student programming team works hard to develop lessons that inspire our students to apply the...
When Brandon began serving his twenty-five-year sentence, he felt utterly alone. The path that had led him to that prison cell was painful—both emotionally and physically. On a September night in 2010, Brandon was hanging out with his girlfriend and two other friends....
Sean, a student in Texas, gives a shout-out to Cara, the mentor who reviewed his fifth Crossroads lesson. Cara, a mentor in Missouri, recently came to our attention when two students mentioned that her comments were especially encouraging. They asked us to...
