When Fernando came across a Bible a few weeks into his incarceration, he angrily kicked it across the room. The Bible was never part of Fernando’s early life. Abused by a family member when he was four years old, he grew up with twisted ideas of right and wrong, which...
Grover lived much of his life calling himself a “Christian” but living with dark secret sins. Grover recalls asking his mother, when he was quite young, what religion their family followed. Someone else had asked the question of him, but he was unsure how...
Most of Esteban’s life has been an ongoing battle against drugs and alcohol. At age 12, he began experimenting with marijuana and other drugs. By age 17, he was an alcoholic and cocaine addict. At age 25, he landed in a drug rehab program. He would return to rehab...
The Crossroads Kenya team survived a terrorist attack during a recent ministry trip to several prisons. Earlier this month, Jefferson Gathu and his Crossroads ministry team set out on a nine-day trip to nine prisons with the goal of expanding their reach to more...
Not long ago, Brandi and John Jonathan opened up a bin overflowing with letters. Their 7-year-old daughter, Eden, approached them and asked, “What’s that?” “Eden, these are all the letters daddy had written to him while he was in prison,”...
Solomon’s earliest memory is stopping his father from strangling his mother to death. He was three and a half years old. He managed to distract his father long enough to allow his mother to flee to a neighbor’s house and call the police. However, his father was...