Nate and Rosa Johnson in Rosa’s favorite portrait of the couple, taken around 2003. Nate Johnson popped into his prison’s chapel service, planning to slip out after a few minutes to lift weights in the gym. That day, the chaplain was preaching on John 3:16, and...
Foundation aims to keep children from following parents to prison Our highest hope for our students at Crossroads is that they will return to their communities as redeemed men and women. But what about the students who might never go home? For those students, we pray...
When Vanessa Gardner went to prison, she told her daughters that they would start over when she got out and never talk about prison again. Instead, Vanessa found her life’s work in Texas prisons, serving men and women behind bars. Since her release, she has earned a...
Crossroads’ Donor Relations Manager Exemplifies the Promise of Redemption A brisk stride, a wide smile, eye-catching bow ties, and a porkpie hat. This is Robert Woldhuis’s signature look. It’s the outward expression of his uncontainable vitality. Robert is the donor...
In 2018, Darryl Woods had exhausted all possibilities through the courts of being released from prison. He had argued since 1990 that his conviction was based upon fraudulent testimony. His future depended on a request placed in front of the then governor of Michigan,...
Sithy Bin became incarcerated in 2005, given two life sentences for accidentally wounding an innocent bystander in a gang shooting in California. The practicing Buddhist was in a deep depression, and he became suicidal when he realized that he might never know freedom...
