“Hello!  My name is Rodney Foote, and I’m the Dorm Supervisor at the Whosoever Gospel Mission.  I’m a graduate, and I highly appreciate the opportunity that was given to me to come here.  By God’s grace and with the help of the staff members here at the Mission, I was able to turn my…

Ross, Jose, Rodney and Ira persevered through numerous obstacles, worked hard, obtained financial self-sufficiency and successfully graduated from the Mission’s New Life Program!  Ross (a retired City employee), Jose (a successful barber) and Ira (the Mission’s new full-time truck driver who is taking night classes to get his commercial driver’s license) all moved out…

“What appears to be an ordinary key to others symbolizes much more to me – it’s a sign of restored relationships and regained trust.  Twenty years ago, because of my lifestyle, this key was taken from me.  Today, after twenty years, I got it back!  This key is the key to my mother’s house. …

Ed Robinson carries around in his wallet this picture of himself (on the left) to remind him of where he came from.  Read his story in his own words: “There was a time in my life when I felt like the storm would never dissipate.  Being homeless 13 years and dealing in dark places…

Andrew Fratacelli is working diligently on his GED because he has a bigger goal in view – he wants to go to Bible College. In the past, Andrew struggled with a lack of motivation and self-discipline.  He didn’t know where he was going in life, much less how to get there. But since coming…

HI.  MY NAME IS GREG DELGADO.  I’ve been thanking the Lord from the time I arrived at the Mission in July of ‘99 until the present.  I’m thanking him for the Mission and what it does in the lives of broken men like myself – men who come through these doors.  One way the…

I dropped out of high school, setting in motion a cycle of procrastination that eventually became a well-developed pattern in my life.  Never having finished school, I falsified information on job applications and my resume.  Eventually, I began to feel ashamed of myself and what I was doing.  One day, I realized that it…

It’s 2001 and my whole world comes crashing down. I buried my mother – Doris  Tanner Matthews – the best friend I ever had in this world and a good mother.  Without her love and support, I started drinking and soon after turned to drugs.  I was losing control of my life fast. My…