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The Rescue Mission is a Christ-centered, grassroots organization offering programs to help people physically, psychologically, socially and spiritually. It is the largest homeless shelter in Virginia and includes a free medical clinic for homeless people, a residential drug and alcohol recovery program (which costs nothing for those who are without income), an adult learning center, a pottery studio, a hair salon, hospitality dining room, and thrift store on site.
The programs are holistic and involve the elements of personal responsibility, self-determination and an internal transformation of values and vision resulting in a restoration of self-respect.
Last year the Rescue Mission provided the following services for those in need:
Meals Served 315,944 Clothing & Furniture Help Provided for Families 20,000 items Nights of Shelter 111,786 Volunteer Hours 76,743 Professions of Faith 1,030 Family Shelter Classes 613 hours Recovery Classes 17,946 hours Learning Center Classes 7,260 hours Clinic Patient Visits 13,230 Value of Healthcare Provided $2,522,994 Case Management Visits 4,523 Legal Clinic Visits 21 Jubilee Acres 54 events; 892 guests Toured the Mission 3,641Famous quotes containing the words rescue and/or mission:
“I positively like the sense, when I dine out, and stoop to rescue a falling handkerchief, that I am not going to rub my shoulder against a heart. What are hearts doing on sleeves?”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story—a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)