Brian, a Crossroads student in Canada, wrote this letter to Jesus. It has been edited for length and clarity. Dear Jesus, I always knew You existed. I’m a sixty-one-year-old man doing life fifteen. I’m twenty-one years in. I wish, in my younger days, when mom asked me...
When Fran was first approached about becoming a volunteer mentor for Crossroads Prison Ministries 23 years ago, she worried that she wasn’t qualified to teach men and women in prison about the Bible. “I wasn’t sure if I could do it. I wasn’t confident in my knowledge...
Frank was raised in a family of drug addicts. Life at home was so rough that when he was thirteen, he ran away from home. “I was basically raised by people on the streets who were gang members, pimps, drug dealers, prostitutes, and criminals,” Frank says. “I was...
Maqhawe was a crooked cop and he knew it. As a police officer for the South African Police Service (SAPS), he used his position of power to break the very laws he was entrusted to enforce. “I wasn’t honest in the SAPS at all,” Maqhawe remembers. “Illegal selling of...
Francisco is locked up in solitary confinement in an Alaska prison. He is on 24-hour lockdown. But you wouldn’t know it by the way he writes to his Crossroads mentors. Francisco’s Bible lessons and letters are filled with hope, life and even joy. “I am prepared to be...
Rebecca* has been a Crossroads mentor for five years. She decided to become a mentor after watching God transform her father’s life while he studied the Bible as a Crossroads student. After seeing the powerful impact that Christ-centered mentorship had on her father,...
