Prison Warden Commends CBI South Africa Students
Crossroad Bible Institute is celebrating the second graduation ceremony hosted by its satellite campus in South Africa. The prison warden and four other high-ranking officials attended the ceremony of...
View ArticleZero Percent Recidivism Rates in Papua New Guinea Prisons
Prison officials in Papua New Guinea and other Pacific Island nations are welcoming Crossroad Bible Institute into their facilities. These officials have seen the benefits of CBI’s prison ministry and...
View ArticleCBI Reaches Families
Mission Network News recently interviewed CBI President Dr. David Schuringa about the ministry’s recent expansions, including the new website, curriculum developments and the Manga Messiah program for...
View ArticleThree Thousand March for CBI in Kenya
NAIROBI, KENYA December 11, 2012—On December 8, thousands of Kenyans took to the streets of Nairobi to walk in support of Crossroad Bible Institute’s reentry program, which provides assistance to...
View ArticleDirector Alwyn Bezuidenhout Passes Away
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...
View ArticleReaching Incarcerated Teens in Sierra Leone
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...
View ArticleCBI Shatters Annual Records Again
The results are in! CBI served a record number of people in prison again this year. In 2012, the ministry reached 44,375 students—an increase of almost 2,000 since the previous year. CBI also...
View ArticleCBI Sierra Leone Seeks Better Conditions for Child Prisoners
Cynthia Williams, CBI’s director for international development, described the desperate plight of child prisoners in Sierra Leone during a Seminar for Continuing Education at CBI headquarters. Williams...
View ArticleCrossroad Invites Prayer for Parents of Prisoners
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...
View ArticleNew Article Links Prison Ministry to Reduced Crime Rates
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...
View ArticleCBI Battles Substance Abuse Crisis in India
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...
View ArticleCBI Malawi Prisoners Face Food Shortage
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...
View ArticleOne Hundred Percent Enrollment in Papua New Guinea
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...
View ArticleFrom Pariah to Poet
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...
View ArticleCBI India Celebrates Mother’s Day
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...
View ArticleCBI Singapore’s Cambodian Prison Ministry Thrives
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...
View ArticleWestminster Seminarians Serve as Instructors
Thanks to an opportunity to serve as CBI Instructors, seminarians at Westminster Seminary California are receiving hands-on ministry experience. For four years, students in Dr. Dennis Johnson’s...
View ArticleMore Jails Refusing Religious Mail
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...
View ArticleThe Proof Is in the Prisons: Fathers Matter
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...
View ArticleTraffic Cameras, Domestic Drones and Mandatory Sentencing
Although few of us have experienced mandatory sentencing or drone surveillance, we have all been watched by traffic cameras. In a recent article for Sojourners, CBI president Dr. David Schuringa...
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