Gary remembers going to church every Sunday with his mother, who was a deacon, and his father, who was a colonel in the Army. “I went to all my Sunday school classes and learned all the stories, but never really thought about them after Sunday school,” he recalls. To...
Crossroads Prison Ministries is looking for volunteers to serve at its home office in Grand Rapids, MI. Available volunteer jobs: -Bible study processing -Entering new student enrollments into our operating system -Entering student score reports into our system -Data...
Carl admits that when he was growing up, he pretty much only thought about himself. When he was seventeen, he started selling drugs and discovered the excitement of having his own money and buying whatever he wanted. But his selfish tendencies caught up with him when...
Carlos’s earliest memories include enduring abuse from his PTSD-burdened father, moving from state to state every few years with his mother and three siblings and struggling to succeed or fit in at school. “The world was a different place in the 1970s and 1980s, and...
Shawn grew up looking for acceptance from his family. Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, he could never find it. “I was physically and emotionally abused, always told I was a mistake and no one wanted me around,” he said. “I lived with hand-me-downs and the...
