Matthew grew up feeling trapped, stifled and lonely. “I wasn’t really allowed to be a kid,” he remembered. “I couldn’t do what other kids my age did. I was confined to the house all the time. My only friends were school friends, but I couldn’t see them outside of...
After a non-fatal car accident involving nine others and a DUI charge more than a decade ago, Ric found his life forever altered. He went on to spend 247 days in prison – a place of punishment that became a sanctuary of transformation. During his first thirty days in...
What makes Crossroads Prison Ministries unique is that we not only send Bibles and Bible study lessons into prisons, but we also connect people in prison with mentors on the outside who review their lessons and write them encouraging letters. When a student advances...
Kyle is in his fourth year in seminary, carrying a 4.0 GPA, while also studying business at Adams State University with a 3.82 GPA. But Kyle’s journey to academic success has been a lot different from most scholars’ journeys. When Kyle was seventeen, everything in his...
In a year when in-person prison ministry has been put on pause in many areas of the world, Crossroads has been able to establish and strengthen partnerships with other ministries that are looking for a way to continue to serve men and women behind bars. One of those...
This past fall, John was one of nearly 400,000 people who have caught the coronavirus in prison, and he found his faith tested. At age seventy, catching COVID-19 in prison was frightening, but John shared with us how he felt God’s presence with Him, comforting and...
