Christmas in July

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Santa, presents, a snowball fight and chicken: it must be Christmas in July with the elves from our friends at Chick-fil-A. One of our favorite events of the year, Peter Brakke and his staff from the Tustin Legacy...

Summer Graduation

Like a freshly planted seed, new life does not spring forth without first experiencing a burial. Similarly, this is a reoccurring theme for many of the students from the Rescue Mission who persevere through the program to graduation. Only after working through...

Now Hiring

The work we do at the Orange County Rescue Mission requires unique individuals to answer the call and carry out the cause of serving the least, the last and the lost. The miracles that we get to witness in the lives of broken men, women and children are no shortage of...

Community on Mission

Our dreams and visions pale in comparison to the bigger plan that God is mapping out all around us. Where I feel beyond blessed to see my hopes for the Orange County Rescue Mission unfold before my eyes, I could have never projected the ministry that I envisioned...

Night at the Symphony

Residents of O.C. Rescue Mission’s Village of Hope transitional housing program enjoy a night at the Pacific Symphony. By THERESA WALKER / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Dawn Smart walked arm in arm with a neighbor friend up the walkway at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater...