by Jim Palmer | Oct 18, 2014 | blog
Click here to watch Robert entered the Marine Corps straight out of high school and served three years at Camp Pendleton. Things didn’t go so well for him. He had started doing drugs when he was just 11 years old. When he joined the Marines, he brought his...
by Jim Palmer | Sep 11, 2014 | blog
It’s a comfortably warm evening in Santa Ana. Blocks away, young families are strolling through a tree-lined Thursday Farmer’s Market. Baskets of fresh berries overflow, lemonade in tall glasses, but here in a parking lot at the corner of Ross Street and Santa Ana...
by Jim Palmer | Aug 28, 2014 | blog
After wandering the streets of Orange County and struggling with drugs, alcohol and hopelessness for 30 years, David came to the Rescue Mission to seek help. When we see the homeless like David on street corners, bus stops, off ramps and elsewhere, the temptation is...
by Jim Palmer | Aug 21, 2014 | blog
It is that time of the year again where school buses are making their rounds and all the kids have retreated back to the classrooms of our local school districts. Where parents might be breathing a sigh of relief, there are some kids that are holding their breath for...
by Jim Palmer | Aug 14, 2014 | blog
This is David. His is the face of homelessness in our own backyards; invisible people that are overlooked, everyday, living on the streets of our community, but in desperate need for help. In fact, last night, nearly 500 were in our beds. That is 500 of our neighbors...
