On Feb. 10, students from Calvin Christian High School partnered with Crossroads Prison Ministries in a “Birthday Cards for Prisoners” project. More than 160 students created over 300 birthday cards that will be sent to Crossroads students all over the...
For years, Nathan’s past would haunt him. Guilt consumed his thought life by day and ushered in nightmares by night. “I used to think about what I did and have lots of bad dreams. Sometimes I would cry in bed and just say, ‘God, why me?’” Nathan writes from his cell...
Tairone was raised by his grandparents to go to church every Sunday. But the other six days of the week, his religion was running the streets. And while his grandparents taught him Scripture, his uncles taught him the ins and outs of the drug game. It didn’t take long...
Joshua knows what it feels like to be truly alone. He knows the pain and bruises that come from hitting rock bottom. He also knows the joy of being rescued. When Joshua was sent to prison, he was in a unit without a telephone, and he didn’t have the resources to...
When Jose looks back on his life, he can clearly see two major turning points: the biggest mistake he ever made and the best decision he ever made. After his abusive father abandoned Jose, his mother and his five siblings, Jose watched as his mother struggled to keep...
Locked away in a segregation unit in a Massachusetts prison, Patrick’s thoughts are thousands of miles away in Kenya where his nephew was shot and killed a month ago. When he first heard the news of his nephew’s death, a close friend came to visit him and brought some...
