Rex Baker
I recently learned a new term. When I checked with Gerald Snell, our shelter manager during the recent freeze, he informed me that Gateway Rescue Mission was a “warming center” and that we had a shelter full of folks seeking shelter from the cold. I said “that’s great” and proceeded to privately google “warming center”
It’s mid-morning and we just returned from ministry to the homeless camps. A young lady emerged from a camp in sock feet and I wondered how she made it through a night when the temps dropped into the twenties. A homeless man was found dead somewhere in Jackson early this morning. He apparently froze to
The New York Times screams “The Trump Administration has taken extraordinary steps to reduce federal grant funding to nonprofit groups.” According to the Times, “tens of thousands of U.S. nonprofits—aid groups, universities, hospitals,” and many other groups stand to lose an important part of their funding due to budget cuts. I don’t seek an ideological debate
A friend recently asked me about our “success rate” at Gateway Rescue Mission. I know what she meant. She was asking what percentage of our program residents remain clean and sober after they graduate. Still, I sometimes wonder about God’s definition of success. Each week, our outreach team at Gateway Rescue Mission visits the
Almost every door led to a dive or a dance hall. Sounds of revelry, clinking glasses, curses and fighting would issue forth until broad daylight. Kit Burn’s rat pit was just below Dover Street, where his illustrious son-in-law, “Jack the Rat”, would bite the head off a rat before an audience of sightseers, and pass
