First Love Church is a small congregation in Bangkok making a huge impact in Thailand prisons. The church has assembled a team that goes into prisons and gives concerts, shares testimonies and distributes personal items to hundreds of prisoners. The already effective...
After surviving a shooting, this Crossroads student is living for God John stepped out of the pay phone booth with his emotions running high and his anger running hot. Three gunshots rang out. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bullets whizzed past John’s head. Car tires screeched and...
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...
