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Redefining Success

May 20, 2026December 2, 2024 by Rex Baker

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

The Anatomy of Rescue Ministry

May 20, 2026October 21, 2024 by Rex Baker

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