In 2009, Peter was at his lowest. Twenty-nine years old, deeply entrenched in his gang and desperately lonely after serving the first five years of a lengthy prison sentence, he cried out to God to bring a good woman into his life. “It’s not like I thought of God as a...
Paul grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods in his city. “I was involved in gangs as a teenager and got in trouble in school, always fighting and hanging out with the wrong crowd, constantly getting suspended from school,” he wrote. One of his friends, who...
At Crossroads, we have been sending Christmas cards to our students for over a decade, reminding them that they are not forgotten during the holiday season. This is the only Christmas card many of our students receive, and the seemingly small gesture can have a...
Scroll to the bottom to view a video interview with James and Vida! Nineteen years ago, when Vida read about Crossroads in her church bulletin and decided to get involved, she had never met anyone in prison. Five years into Vida’s mentoring journey, a man named James...
Guy thought he could run his own life. Although he grew up in a Christian home and accepted Jesus as a teenager, his daily life didn’t always reflect it. During his senior year of high school, he stopped going to church with his grandparents and followed in his...
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” – Jeremiah 29:13 Brian was raised in a Catholic family. Although he attended church dutifully, he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing. “I never really connected with God,” he...
