John remembers what it was like to feel all alone behind prison bars. But he also remembers the warmth and hope he felt each time he read an encouraging letter. John was a Crossroad Bible Institute student for two years while he was incarcerated. “Crossroad helped me...

Darnell grew up attending church and participating in Sunday school weekly. But after his father was sent to prison for armed robbery when Darnell was eleven, he chose a similar path of crime and drugs. By age eighteen, Darnell was in an Oklahoma prison on an armed...

At Crossroad Bible Institute, we receive countless letters of thanks from both prisoners and their Instructors. It’s beautiful to read how God uses Bible lessons and the exchange of letters to bless and encourage. With Thanksgiving around the corner, we want to share...

“He stilled the storm to a whisper; the waves of the sea were hushed.” –Psalm 107:29 We all face storms during life. Whether it’s a family tragedy or a time of great worry, there are moments where we wonder if we can keep going. It can be especially difficult for men...

  Crossroad Bible Institute India is continuing to advance the Gospel among the nation’s prisoners. Six men were baptized Nov. 8 at Sajiwa Central Jail in Manipur. Three CBI students also received their certificates for graduating from the Great Truths of the...

Crossroad Bible Institute has named Lisa Blystra its executive director, the prison ministry has announced. In September, the CBI board of directors unanimously selected Blystra to lead the ministry. Blystra, of Holland, brings twelve years of church and faith-based...

In 2009, thinking she was destined to die in prison, Lolita Barthel decided to take her own life. But on the day she was planning to commit suicide, she was unexpectedly transferred to another prison. For Barthel, that seemingly random event felt like divine...

Having ministered already to hundreds of men and women imprisoned in Papua New Guinea, Crossroad Bible Institute is preparing to extend its reach in 2016. CBI Australia, which works in several South Pacific islands including Papua New Guinea, has an open invitation...

After more than two years of work, Crossroad Bible Institute will offer lessons for men and women in Indonesian prisons in their native language, Bahasa Indonesia. One hundred copies of the Bahasa Indonesia Great Truths of the Bible course have been shipped to...

Former Crossroad Bible Institute student Edward “Doc” Amey spent much of his life trying to avoid police officers. But after turning to God in prison, Amey now seeks out cops not to confront them but to pray for them. Last month, Amey was “caught” praying for a Texas...

During his trip to the United States this week, Pope Francis visited with inmates in a Philadelphia prison. Speaking to the imprisoned, the pope offered encouragement from the Gospel scene in which Jesus washed the feet of His disciples. In those days, people’s...

The island of Guam is about thirty miles long and six miles wide. But Crossroad Bible Institute has a big vision for this tiny island with seven hundred inmates in its prison system. Guam is the site of CBI’s recently launched twenty-first satellite campus, the prison...

Although it has been nearly eighteen months since the beginning of the world’s largest Ebola outbreak, the outlook for Sierra Leone remains uncertain. On September 1, just a week after the country had celebrated the release of the last known Ebola patient from its...

Here at Crossroad Bible Institute headquarters, many of us know children or friends who are heading back to school this month—but Crossroad students study the Bible all year round! With the help of their Instructors, students are learning about biblical truths and...

The odds were against Kimberly Westmoreland. Of the 35,000 people who applied to have their sentences commuted by President Obama earlier this year, only 46 were successful. Unlike presidential pardons, commutations do not imply the recipient’s innocence but rather...

When reading the label on a bottle of vitamins, an allergy medication or an antibiotic prescription, the phrase “take once daily” can often be found. We all know that it’s important to follow dosage instructions in order to maintain, or regain, our health. But how can...

With kangaroos, Vegemite, gum trees and the Outback, Australia sometimes seems a world away to those of us in the United States. But when we read the following letter from a CBI Australia Instructor, it didn’t sound unfamiliar at all. It could have come from any one...

No matter where you live, a politician who takes an interest in people in prison is a rare thing indeed. This summer, CBI Singapore experienced the blessing of a politician who went one step further, supporting Crossroad students and their participation in CBI’s Bible...

Back-to-school shopping lists typically include a basic item: a box of No. 2 pencils. We may take for granted that the pencils we purchase have a small rubber eraser at the end, but it wasn’t until the mid-1800s that businessman Hymen Lipman decided to combine the two...

The Crossroad Extra staff teamed up with Crossroad Bible Institute’s international department to interview Antonio Prieto Surmay, the director of CBI Colombia. At eighty years old, Prieto Surmay continues to be strong in the Lord as he ministers to hundreds of...