The Journey to Successful and Sustainable Re-entry Begins Here
Men who have been imprisoned face tremendous challenges as they try to reintegrate back into society.
Returning citizens need advocates, guides, and encouraging re-entry coaches to walk alongside them upon release from prison and as they re-enter, transitioning to live out their faith in freedom.
CrossWalk Center bridges critical social services and ministry between prison life and freedom - Seamless Re-entry Discipleship from the Inside Out.
We offer hope and a future apart from broken prison life to whole-hearted intentional living as the unique individuals God originally created and intended them to be.
The Regional Realities of Re-entry. Every day, five days a week, 245 days a year, at around 2 pm, 50 or more of the 16,300 plus individuals released annually from Texas Department of Criminal Justice prisons, arrive by bus at Houston's Midtown bus terminal.
Isolated from society and our rapidly changing world for a number of years, most ex-offenders lack the basic knowledge of what to do after release. They do not know who to trust or who to turn to for help.
They do not know how to access, much less how to find and navigate, all the regional service providers and ministries that could assist and enable them to transition and reintegrate successfully back into Houston communities and neighborhoods.
Logistically, Houston is a challenging city for anyone to navigate. The city is not only initially overwhelming and frightening to get around in, but it can be nearly impossible because these men return to Houston with little or no money, no job prospects, and basically no means of financial support - just the $50 to $100 issued by the state upon release. It becomes more difficult when they have no identification, no means of transportation, and often no family willing to help them, nor a safe home.
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I was thirsty and you gave me a drink,
I was homeless and you gave me a room,
I was shivering and you gave me clothes,
I was sick and you stopped to visit,
I was in prison and you came to me.
- Matthew 25:35-36
Today we pause to remember the men and women who gave everything in service to our country.
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13
Their sacrifice is a picture of the deepest kind of love. Laying down one's life so that others might live free. We are grateful for the freedom secured by their service, and we are reminded that the truest freedom of all was purchased by Christ, who laid down His life for us.
To every Gold Star family, every veteran carrying the memory of a brother or sister who didn't come home, and every household marking this day with a heavy heart: we honor them with you.
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Sometimes God breaks us down so we can finally see who we were made to be.
In this powerful video, Kindrick — one of the disciples in our CrossWalk Discipleship Home — shares a reminder we all need: the caterpillar spends his days crawling in the dirt, until something inside him says there's more. He goes into the cocoon. Alone. Quiet. Stripped of everything familiar. And when he finally cracks out, he isn't crawling anymore. He's flying with the eagles.
That's the picture of restoration. That's what Christ does with a surrendered life.
"Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."
Romans 12:2
At CrossWalk Center, we walk alongside men and women in their own cocoon season — the breaking, the rebuilding, the becoming. We've seen what God does when someone stops running from transformation and starts trusting it.
If you're in that season right now, hear this: don't go backwards. Your purpose is on the other side.
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Thank you, Kindrick, for sharing your heart with us.
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"Simply super outreach and so much talent displayed by people in 10th Anniversary service 'showing off' their beautiful stewardship of their 2nd chances. In Jesus' love and abundant grace."
This note came from a donor who joined us at our 10-Year Gala. We are sitting with every word.
That is what the night was. Disciples using their gifts and stewarding the grace they have been given. Lives the world counted out, now telling a different story.
Ten years in, and God is still doing what only God can do.
To the donor who wrote this, and to every person who showed up, prayed, gave, and believed: thank you. You make seamless re-entry discipleship possible.
If the Lord has stirred your heart and you have not yet stepped in, there is room for you in this work.
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Commencement. Not an end, but the start of life to the full.
This past Saturday, we celebrated our newest Disciple Makers as they completed their season in the CrossWalk discipleship home. What a holy, beautiful day.
Each of them walked through hard places to get here. They showed up. They did the work. They let Jesus do what only He can do. And now they step into the next chapter, not as who they used to be, but as who Christ has made them to be.
To our graduates: we are so proud of you. We are praying for you. We cannot wait to see how the Lord keeps writing your story.
"I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." John 10:10
Welcome to what's next, Disciple Makers. The best is still ahead.
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