Whosoever Gospel Mission
Sharing God's Love Since 1892
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From the Director ~ October 2018
Dear Friend of the Mission, Your support of the Mission is an investment in the lives of our men. And as our men move from being unemployed and homeless to working and living independently in their own place, they in turn become productive, contributing members of our community who strengthen the very fabric of…
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Building Bridges to Family
The men who come to the Whosoever Gospel Mission looking for help and a way forward are sons and fathers, brothers and cousins, husbands, nephews, uncles, grandfathers and grandsons. Addiction and homelessness can eat away at these relationships leaving both the men and their families grieving the loss. But there is hope! Jesus is…
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From the Director ~ September 2018
Dear Friend of the Mission, Each of our men comes from a family. When we deal with homeless individuals, it is easy to forget that our men are not islands unto themselves, but rather they are in fact sons and fathers, brothers and cousins, husbands, nephews, uncles, grandfathers and grandsons. This month’s true-story highlight…
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Summer at the Mission
Here are a few highlights of our summer! Graduations Cordie and Robert both faced big health challenges while at the Mission. While they were here, they accessed the medical care they needed and worked hard to get back on their feet. Both Cordie and Robert had long journeys to moving into…
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Urgent Financial Need
We need your prayers and any help you can give. We just found out that an $86,500 foundation grant we were actually awarded isn’t going to be coming anytime soon, if at all. This is no one’s fault – please see this letter for an explanation of what happened. We’ve also had some other…
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From the Director ~ August 2018
Dear Friend of the Mission, We need your prayers and your help at this time to keep doing all that we do to restore homeless men to society as productive, contributing members of our community. Our income always decreases in the summer months, but this summer our finances are especially tight. We currently are…
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From the Director ~ Summer 2018
Dear Friend of the Mission, Your gifts on these hot summer days continue to feed, shelter and clothe the homeless men who live at the Mission. Homelessness never takes a vacation. Your gifts, though, provide our men with so much more than food, shelter and clothing. Your generous gifts also equip our men with…
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Overcomers: Reaching Forward
Supporting men on their journey to becoming Overcomers “Forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on.” Philippians 3:13-14 On top of being homeless, many of the men who come to the Mission find themselves ensnared in a life-and-death battle with an addiction to drugs or alcohol. The battle…
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From the Director ~ May 2018
Dear Friend of the Mission, In the Bible we read these sobering words, “For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate…For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what…
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Going Somewhere
Each year, we put out over $16.5K in essential carfare expenses for men in our New Life Program to access medical care and education, to find employment, and to take care of legal issues. This is what free access to transportation means to a homeless man working hard to get back on his feet:…