by Jim Palmer | Jul 5, 2017 | blog
How can I best describe the atmosphere at a Rescue Mission graduation? Let me do my best: You can feel it in the room. The joy of renewed hope and a life transformed in Christ. The peace, strength, and excitement of the graduates in knowing they are freed from the...
by Jim Palmer | Jul 24, 2014 | blog
Click here to watch this clip. As we continue to cross off the summer days of leisure on the calendar, this season has been anything but leisurely at the Rescue Mission. There continues to be a consistently steady flow of men, women and children in need filtering...
by Jim Palmer | Jun 20, 2014 | blog
School is out for the summer, but that doesn’t mean sleeping in and sitting around– we want to make the most of summer break for our kids at the Village of Hope; a “Summer to Remember.” Our summer camp program, facilitated by students from...
by Jim Palmer | Aug 5, 2013 | blog
… to the Circus! Taking kids to the circus for the first time is almost more entertaining than the actual acrobats and elephants. Eleven 3 and 4 year-olds from the Orange County Rescue Mission were granted a trip to the circus yesterday where they all had the...
by Jim Palmer | Aug 2, 2013 | blog
What do hiking, tennis, and rocket launching have to do with homelessness? How about offering all of these summer camp perks to kids who have come off the streets and are being equipped to break future generations of homelessness? Concordia University faculty and...
