In 2019, US leaders and five extension center directors met in Thailand for a leadership summit. They began to envision the future of Crossroads’ international program, dreaming of mobilizing regional leaders to assume responsibility for ministry sustainability and...
There’s A Cross to Bridge the Great Divide by R. Scott, a Crossroads student in Michigan Lamar was on a work trip when he received the phone call that would change the course of his life. His fourteen-year-old son, Dominic, had taken the life of another teenager...
While Carlos would have claimed he was a Christian, he acknowledges it was a lukewarm faith. He approached the church with his requests and needs but continued living the same sinful lifestyle. One filled with stealing, lying and adultery. “I was filled with...
Curtis has spent the last seven years studying the Bible through Crossroads. For the last four years, he has received consistent spiritual guidance and personal encouragement from his Tier 2 mentor, John. In 2021, he began his first Tier 3 course, with John still by...
Nearly a decade after serving his six-month sentence, Charles still remembers what that first day in jail felt like. In the opening lines of a short autobiography he has been writing, he shares: “As most inmates know, when they take your belongings and put them in a...
“I grew up in the midst of sin, hurt and chaos,” Joshua shared with us. “My mom raised us mostly herself with intervals of would-be fathers. She tried her best,” he explained. “However, I had buried a lot of hurt and anger and became hard in my heart. On the outside,...
