It was a quiet Sunday morning when Patty finally confessed to her husband her terrible secret. Panicked and full of shame, Patty had spent the weekend seeking some kind of comfort. She kept returning to a small note scrawled on the inside cover of an old Bible: If you...

Crossroad Bible Institute continues to radically transform people’s lives in countries fraught with political turmoil. In Colombia, Antonio Prieto Surmay has seen such transformations firsthand. Prieto Surmay, director of CBI Colombia, reaches out to the inmates in 16...

WASHINGTON D.C. July 28, 2014—Dr. David Schuringa, president of Crossroad Bible Institute, joined Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Rand Paul (R-KY) to voice his support for the Democracy Restoration Act (DRA) at a bipartisan Senate briefing in the Dirksen Building....

Crossroad Bible Institute's campus in Australia is planning to introduce the CBI program to Cobham Remand Centre, a facility in St. Marys for high-risk juvenile detainees. The staff of CBI Australia are working with the facility’s chaplain, who will be able to...

The other night I had what has become a recurring dream over the years. It’s not exactly the same each time, but rather a dream with successive chapters. I see a Victorian-style mansion, like a huge bed and breakfast, and it is filled with happy people of all ages....

Jefferson Gathu, director of CBI Kenya, and Matthew Nsibiet, acting director of CBI Nigeria-Akwa Ibom State, have both requested prayers for safety amid increasing violence. In Nairobi, twin bomb blasts recently killed ten people and left dozens injured. The attacks...

Crossroad Bible Institute's ministry would be impossible without its dedicated core of volunteer Instructors. No one knows this truth better than CBI Canada, which continues to grow with new students and new graduates. Martie VanNiekerk, director of CBI Canada,...

by H. David Schuringa Ok, now you know where the H comes from in my name. For a short time, some parents were naming sons after their dads but calling them by their middle name to emphasize their “uniqueness.” Good thing, because no one could fill the shoes of my dad,...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. June 24, 2014—Dr. David Schuringa, president of Crossroad Bible Institute, was recently appointed by Governor Rick Snyder to serve on the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission. The commission, created by House Bill 4529, seeks to improve the quality...

The familiar expression “When God closes a door, He opens a window” has resonated deeply with CBI Guatemala this year. After discontinuing part of the CBI program due to security concerns, CBI Guatemala is now focusing on discipling prison guards from the national...

“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,” says Hebrews 12:1, and Crossroad Bible Institute board member Ray Middel took that exhortation literally as he completed the fifty-six-mile Comrades Marathon in South Africa on June 1. The Comrades Marathon...

The Spanish translation of Manga Messiah was recently published and will soon be in the hands of children of prisoners in the United States, Latin America and beyond. Manga Messiah adapts the Gospel account into a graphic novel, and the accompanying lessons are...

“The research is in, and it is uncontestable. The American experiment in mass incarceration has been a moral, legal, social, and economic disaster. It cannot end soon enough.” That’s a bold claim, but a recent New York Times article cites statistical proof to back it...

The federal government currently depends on tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants to provide essential labor that keeps detention centers running. Jailed immigrants do everything from serving in the cafeteria to stocking shelves to mopping bathrooms. However,...

by H. David Schuringa This month, our oldest grandchild is graduating from eighth grade at Timothy Christian School on Chicago’s West Side. Olivia is the first grandchild to earn a diploma, so we’re all very excited. Next year, the Lord willing, it’s on to high...

CBI student Shannon was featured in Crossroad Extra last year. Since then, he has been released from prison and has begun his reentry journey. He recently wrote to Crossroad to share about how the ministry has impacted his life. Before I left prison on December 20,...

At seventeen, Alexander had anti-Christian tattoos all over his body—Jesus with horns, an upside-down cross, the words “Satan’s Child,” the number 666. His heart bore a different kind of marking—emotional scars left by the deaths of his three best friends, all...

  In Malawi’s overcrowded Mzuzu Prison, inmates sleep sitting up, leaning on one another like collapsed dominoes. This prison, infamous for its lack of resources, might be the last place one would expect to find an emerging higher education program. Yet, in the...

  While traveling abroad, Beth and John Bouws knew there was one item on their itinerary that they did not want to miss—visiting the headquarters of CBI Australia. As a member of the CBI board of directors, Beth was excited to connect with one of Crossroad’s...

Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, made waves Sunday when he said that immigrants who cross the border seeking better lives for their families deserve compassion, not contempt: “[T]hey crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide...