by Jim Palmer | Oct 11, 2017 | blog
At the Rescue Mission, we see families come to us out of broken and painful situations every day. Often parents arrive with their children, desperate and hopeless, unable to care for their children well as a result of their own traumatic upbringing and bad decisions...
by Jim Palmer | Sep 29, 2017 | blog
Kenny’s addiction had stolen everything. A self-proclaimed “Skid Row drunk”, he spent years scraping by, playing music on the streets, and sleeping wherever he could. That is, until the Huntington Beach Police picked him up and brought him to the Orange County Rescue...
by Jim Palmer | Aug 14, 2017 | blog
So often, I talk to the men and women that now call Orange County Rescue Mission home, and they recall a “moment of truth”. It is a moment that they are forced to make a monumental decision: to continue living in the brokenness and chaos they are in or to leave all...
by Jim Palmer | Jul 31, 2017 | blog
It is the Rescue Mission’s goal to provide comprehensive and supportive care to the Least, the Last, and the Lost of our community in various stages of need. In addition to our residential transitional living program, the Village of Hope, we also offer...
by Jim Palmer | Jun 28, 2017 | blog
Last Saturday, Eddie Mejia completed the journey he began over a year and a half ago. As he crossed the stage and accepted his diploma as a symbol of his graduation from the Rescue Mission program, he reflected on the long road that had led him to this...
