“You couldn’t even get yourself killed right.” The weight of his guilt, shame and hopelessness was unbearable. Sitting in a holding cell, CJ couldn’t believe how he got there. After stealing a car, he got in a high-speed chase with police and tried to commit suicide...
By Lisa Blystra President & CEO, Crossroads The new year has begun, which means it’s the perfect time for us to pause and reflect on the incredible growth in 2018. We celebrated nearly doubling the number of students in our mentorship program, and we have been...
Editor’s Note: This letter from Doug Cupery, director of church mobilization at Crossroads Prison Ministries, was sent to all Crossroads mentors earlier this month. Dear Mentor, Christmas brings back both warm memories and icy cold memories for me. It was during...
Dear Friends, Most of Esteban’s life has been an ongoing battle against drugs and alcohol. By the time he was a teenager, he was an alcoholic and a cocaine addict. At age twenty-five, he landed in a drug rehab program. By his fortieth birthday, he had returned...
Edward will never forget the day his mother called him the devil. Addicted to all kinds of substances and running with a notorious gang, Edward was in and out of prison. “I was very ruthless,” Edward said. “My own mother called me the devil when I shot one of my older...
When Fernando came across a Bible a few weeks into his incarceration, he angrily kicked it across the room. The Bible was never part of Fernando’s early life. Abused by a family member when he was four years old, he grew up with twisted ideas of right and wrong, which...
