At a certain point in a Crossroads student’s relationship with their mentor, they become more than Bible study partners. They become friends. Bryan, a Crossroads student in Illinois, and his mentor Betty are a good example. They developed a close relationship as they...
“I had gone out the night before until very late and was running on two hours of sleep. I knew it was going to be a rough day, but I thought I would just power through it like I had done several times before,” Nicole said. But this time didn’t go like the many times...
La Floresta is a small juvenile detention facility in Peru. It is smaller than most facilities because it houses only the most violent of young offenders. Most of the boys are between the ages of 13 and 18, and all of them have been convicted of homicide or other...
After cycling in and out of jail for half of his life, Ernesto had finally stopped the cycle—on the wrong side of the bars. “I received my life sentence at the age of twenty-five,” he says. “However, it did not stop me from my gang and criminal mentality.” This...
To some, high school is a place to learn new things and explore new hobbies. To others, it is a place to make friends and socialize. To Jason, it was a place to sell drugs. “By sixteen, I was an accomplished drug dealer, using school for my client base,” he says. “I...
Al Bonilla never thought he would follow his father’s footsteps into ministry. As a pastor’s kid, Al witnessed all the difficulties his father experienced while pouring everything he had into his ministry and raising a family. “I was not interested in ministry. I saw...
