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”
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
