In a recent article for Think Christian, CBI president Dr. David Schuringa draws from his experience in prison ministry to argue for the enduring importance of fatherhood. Although society at large has written headship off as irrelevant, Dr. Schuringa proposes that...

Over the past five years, dozens of local jails have adopted new policies mandating that personal correspondence to or from the facility take place via postcard. These policies prevent incarcerated men and women from receiving study materials such as lessons from...

Thanks to an opportunity to serve as CBI Instructors, seminarians at Westminster Seminary California are gaining hands-on prison ministry experience. For four years, students in Dr. Dennis Johnson’s Ministry of Discipleship course have spent a semester serving as CBI...

CBI Singapore is looking beyond its borders and extending its prison ministry into nearby Cambodia. Under the guidance of campus director Paul Tan, CBI lessons are delivered to students in Cambodia’s Takeo Correctional Center 3 by an on-site coordinator and a local...

CBI India celebrated Mother's Day with women behind bars in Manipur this Sunday. Ministry staff members conducted a special worship service featuring a time of prayer for the facility's mothers, some of whom raise their children in the jail. Gifts were also...

When he was eighteen years old, Chuck came up with a plan. He would break into a house and go to prison. From there, he could relocate to a bigger city and start over. Chuck’s childhood had been so characterized by neglect, rejection and dysfunction that he could...

This spring, CBI Australia extended its ministry to the women at Buimo Jail in Lae, Papua New Guinea. The response from prisoners there marked a historic first for CBI. Fieldworker Terry West reported that one hundred percent of women who qualified for the program...

While offenders in the United States face problems such as mass incarceration, poor indigent defense and mandatory minimum sentencing legislation, offenders in the developing world often face conditions that are not only unjust but life-threatening. Prison conditions...

Crossroad Bible Institute’s newest satellite campus recently celebrated its students’ outward and inward transformations at a combined graduation and baptism ceremony in Northeast India. This graduation ceremony was an especially poignant one, considering the epidemic...

In a new article published on Think Christian, Dr. David Schuringa, president of Crossroad Bible Institute, described how prison ministry plays a role in decreasing crime rates. The article was also featured by the Acton Institute’s blog. In the article, Dr. Schuringa...

CBI ministers to tens of thousands of prisoners each year, and the introduction of the Manga Messiah course means that CBI is now reaching the children of prisoners as well. In fact, every member of a prisoner’s family needs support, and this has prompted CBI...

Cynthia Williams, CBI’s deputy director for international development, described the desperate plight of child prisoners in Sierra Leone during a Seminar for Continuing Education at CBI headquarters. Williams reported that Sierra Leone’s seventeen prisons are...

FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE January 28, 2013—Crossroad Bible Institute announces the opening of a new satellite campus in Sierra Leone, one of the poorest countries in the world. The campus, which is CBI’s eighteenth international satellite and its eighth campus in Africa,...

CBI South Africa Director Alwyn Bezuidenhout passed away unexpectedly in his home at the age of forty-nine on December 10. Alwyn had served as the South African satellite director since 2011. As part of his ministry, he visited students each week to hand-deliver...