Robert has spent nearly twenty years behind bars. Throughout his adult life, he has struggled to break free from a pattern of going to prison, getting released and returning to prison. He traces this cycle back to abuse he endured at the age of eleven. “I carried that...
When John was thirteen, his brother Mike was killed in an accident on their family farm. Devastated by the loss, John abandoned his faith. “That day, I was no longer a kid,” John remembers. “Everything changed in my life.” From that day on, he dedicated his life to...
Mike Eastman doesn’t remember much about his first few days in prison. He was in a fog while detoxing from drugs. But he does remember one thing – he prayed. “I hadn’t done that since my childhood. But I prayed that if God was there, He would get me out of this...
In the aftermath of last week’s severe flooding in Sierra Leone, Lahai Kargbo, the director of Crossroads Sierra Leone, and his team of mentors brought much-needed supplies to two juvenile detention centers in the area, where many resources were destroyed in the...
Torrential rain and mudslides have killed more than 200 people in Sierra Leone, multiple news outlets are reporting. The flooding and mudslides began Monday and left hundreds trapped in their homes, according to the New York Times. Lahai Kargbo, director of Crossroads...
Jose Marcano volunteers as a mentor to prisoners through Crossroads Prison Ministries in the Dominican Republic. He recently sent us his testimony of how his life has been impacted through reviewing prisoners’ Bible lessons and writing them letters. The letter...
