By Lisa Blystra President & CEO As I look back on 2020, many emotions come to mind. Anxiety, uncertainty, fear . . . but also gratitude and hope. Despite the many challenges we faced as a ministry in the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, God has moved in unexpected,...
Alice was raised in the church and grew up attending her local Christian school. At nineteen, she married a preacher and started a family. From the outside, she appeared to have it all together. Alice had “played with drugs” in her teen years and left that...
Matthew grew up in a Christian family. At nineteen, he gave his life to Christ and began to see his life transform. Four years later, he found his life falling apart as he sunk into depression. “This was at the beginning of my marriage when I was supposed to be happy,...
At 36, Rocky lost everything. After a season of filling his life with drinking and gambling, he was back living with his parents. “I was an alcoholic and had been from an early age,” he said. His addictions caused him to lose his home, car and driver’s license along...
Editor’s Note: This letter from Doug Cupery, director of church mobilization at Crossroads Prison Ministries, was sent to all Crossroads mentors earlier this month. During the Christmas season, what do you say to someone who is in prison? Is it okay to say “Merry...
“Jesus found me at the foot of my bed with a loaded nine-millimeter pistol in my mouth and my finger on the trigger. Before I could pull the trigger, tears welled up in my eyes, and my breathing became heavy. A surge of heat ran through my body, and I began to sweat...
