Crossroads Prison Ministries staff and volunteers in Kenya are making an incredible impact in the lives of men and women in prison throughout the country. The team of 25 volunteer mentors travel, sometimes great distances, to prisons to hand deliver Crossroads Bible...

Rammel grew up without knowing his mother or father. He was raised by his aunt, and he had two godmothers who made sure he attended church regularly. “Although I did not enjoy church much, I learned a lot, and eventually got baptized and saved,” says Rammel. As a...

Dear Friends, When heavy rains and mudslides devastated Sierra Leone in August, killing more than 1,000 people, most relief efforts ignored the people who are so often forgotten -- prisoners. But Lahai Kargbo, the young director of Crossroads Sierra Leone, was filled...

Vinson found himself in prison again, convicted of driving while intoxicated—his sixth DWI offense. This time, he was sentenced to twenty years. Looking back on this cycle throughout his life—getting arrested, going to prison, being released and then...

See full art piece below At Crossroads, every month we receive dozens of pieces of artwork from prisoners all across the country. We share this art in the Crossroads Journal of the Arts, on our Facebook page and in our Prisoner Art Project Gallery. We recently...

Art by Cesar, a Crossroads student in Texas Michael grew up in Cairo, Egypt, in a predominantly Islamic family. Exposure to both Islamic and Christian culture left him confused, and he sought answers by turning to drugs at the age of twelve. By sixteen, he was fully...

Lahai Kargbo was born in a remote village in Sierra Leone. His father had two wives and nine children. Lahai was a sickly child and was abandoned at a young age and left to die. Soon after, missionaries arrived in the village and took Lahai to a hospital to receive...

Tracy has been locked in a one-man cell in the infirmary of a Georgia prison for nearly five years. He is dealing with a lingering infection from a back surgery that he underwent years earlier in his incarceration. During his time in the infirmary, he battled...

Every day, people across the country are writing letters to people they've never met in prison. They share with them their lives, their stories and words of encouragement. The letters they send are often received by men and women who have no other contact with the...

When Crossroads students finish a course of study, they receive a certificate to celebrate their accomplishment. Any time after they’ve finished their first course, they can request to receive a letter of recommendation from Crossroads to send to the parole board....

Chris was about to lose all the progress he’d made. He had been sober for four days, but the temptation to drink was consuming him. Something inside him told him to pray. “At my weakest moment, I said my first real prayer,” Chris remembers. “It is still the most...

Yago Williams, prison ministry leader at Resurrection Life Church, doesn't like to sugarcoat his life. In his past, he abused drugs, sold them on the street and was regularly getting into fights at bars. But he also knows the joy of finding forgiveness and new life in...

Robert has spent nearly twenty years behind bars. Throughout his adult life, he has struggled to break free from a pattern of going to prison, getting released and returning to prison. He traces this cycle back to abuse he endured at the age of eleven. “I carried that...

When John was thirteen, his brother Mike was killed in an accident on their family farm. Devastated by the loss, John abandoned his faith. “That day, I was no longer a kid,” John remembers. “Everything changed in my life.” From that day on, he dedicated his life to...

Mike Eastman doesn’t remember much about his first few days in prison. He was in a fog while detoxing from drugs. But he does remember one thing – he prayed. “I hadn’t done that since my childhood. But I prayed that if God was there, He would get me out of this...

In the aftermath of last week’s severe flooding in Sierra Leone, Lahai Kargbo, the director of Crossroads Sierra Leone, and his team of mentors brought much-needed supplies to two juvenile detention centers in the area, where many resources were destroyed in the...

Torrential rain and mudslides have killed more than 200 people in Sierra Leone, multiple news outlets are reporting. The flooding and mudslides began Monday and left hundreds trapped in their homes, according to the New York Times. Lahai Kargbo, director of Crossroads...

Jose Marcano volunteers as a mentor to prisoners through Crossroads Prison Ministries in the Dominican Republic. He recently sent us his testimony of how his life has been impacted through reviewing prisoners' Bible lessons and writing them letters. The letter below...

Tiffany is a young mom living in California with her husband and son. She came to faith in her early 20s after her sister miraculously recovered from a very serious car accident. Now she shares the Gospel with men and women in prison as a Crossroads mentor. As a...