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...
The 2019-2020 fiscal year was a year like none other. We grew our volunteer team, strengthened partnerships and aggressively developed and tested new Bible study curriculum. But in the spring, everything changed. The pandemic disrupted everyone and everything,...
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...
We receive dozens of notes and letters from students every week, giving us glimpses into their lives. Some of their stories make us smile and warm our hearts. Others offer a sobering reminder of the darkness of prison life and the brokenness of our world. As the world...
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...
