Whosoever Gospel Mission
Sharing God's Love Since 1892
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From the Director ~ Christmas 2019
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Dear Friend of the Mission, The Sears Christmas Wish Book! Every fall Sears would publish and mail out a special Christmas catalog filled with pictures of all sorts of wonderful toys. I grew up in the Tacony section of Philadelphia in the late 1950’s and 1960’s, and…
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From the Director ~ Thanksgiving 2019
Dear Friend of the Mission, Thanksgiving at the Whosoever Gospel Mission is one of the highlights of my year. We do Thanksgiving up big at the Mission! On Thanksgiving Day, our dining room and chapel will be festively decorated. We start off with a joy-filled Thanksgiving Day chapel service in which we give thanks…
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From the Director ~ October 2019
Dear Friend of the Mission, When you support the Mission, you are opening up life-giving, life-changing and life-saving doors of opportunity to the broken and hurting homeless men who come to the Mission desperately seeking help. Our men are mired in deep poverty and come to the Mission with no resources, no money and…
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Starting out on the right foot
All of the men enrolled in the Mission’s New Life Program are working VERY hard. In the Foundations Phase of the New Life Program (the first three months), between classes, tutoring, counseling, homework, D&A recovery meetings, and hands-on workforce development opportunities, each man is involved in about 50-54 hours each week of programmed activity.…
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From the Director ~ September 2019
Our fiscal year ends on September 30, 2019 – help us end the year financially healthy! Dear Friend of the Mission, It is hard to believe that another fiscal year will soon end on September 30, 2019. Your wonderful support this past year has helped us to have a pretty stable year financially. I…
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From the Director ~ Summer 2019
Dear Friend of the Mission, I trust that your summer has been a good one thus far. We do thank the Lord for our air conditioning. When we rebuilt the Mission after the arson fire of 2006, we decided to have our main dormitory building retrofitted with central air conditioning. This was one of…
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From the Director ~ June 2019
Dear Friend of the Mission, Can you imagine being 50 years old and being unable to read? What a hardship and what a heartache. We actually did teach one of our residents who is 50 years old to read. It was a wonderful sight to see him stand up in chapel and read something…
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Crisis Averted ~ Kevin’s Story
Crisis — that moment you’re sure life is over and there is no hope. For New Life Program resident Kevin Wayns, his crisis was becoming homeless. He had been working two full-time jobs, living at home, and was spending all of his money on himself and his pleasures. Then suddenly, for the first time in his…
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From the Director ~ April/May 2019
Dear Friend of the Mission, We care deeply about the families of our men! And we especially celebrate when a resident is able to restore, strengthen and enjoy his relationship with his family as never before. The families of our men are always welcome to visit the Mission to see their loved one. In…