To Rescue Lives, To Save Lives, To Change Lives, To Serve Lives

1. No one should go hungry.
2. Just $1.92 will feed and care for a person in need; $19.20, less than twenty dollars, will feed and care for 10 people in need.
3. If we feed a person without feeding his spirit, we have not served him.
4. We believe that homelessness can strike anyone. In fact, most Americans are only three paychecks away from homelessness.

2007 was a year of growth for the Phoenix Rescue Mission. Along with serving over 650 meals each day to homeless and needy men, women and children at the Mission, we continued to provide showers and clean clothing to anyone in need. There are emergency shelter beds for up to 150 men each night along with an evening Chapel service. Our Hope Coach canvasses Valley streets handing out sack meals, water, clothes and shoes to the men and women on the streets. As the temperatures in the Valley climb into the triple digits, the Phoenix Rescue Mission is the primary agency tasked with providing heat relief to thousands on the street.

The Mission has an Addiction Recovery Program for 21 men. It is a 12-month spiritually-based recovery program, which includes group and individual counseling, Bible study and classes at our Career Education Center. We are also in the process of building the Changing Lives Center for Women and Children that will provide a similar recovery program for up to 75 women and their children.

Needy working poor families are a distinctive part of the Phoenix Rescue Mission’s community outreach services. The Mission distributes food boxes to needy families at its Family Outreach Center, handing out 20,877 in 2007. We have also partnered with the Murphy, Fowler and Isaac School Districts holding four family events each year: Easter Festival, Back-to-School Uniform and School Supply Distribution, Thanksgiving Turkey and Holiday Food Box Distribution and the Adopt-A-Family Christmas Celebration. Through its Family Advocacy Department, each school refers families that need life’s basics – food, clothes, diapers and baby formula to our Family Outreach Center.