To Rescue Lives, To Save Lives, To Change Lives, To Serve Lives.

Phoenix Rescue Mission is a faith based non-profit, founded in 1952 to meet the physical and spiritual needs of homeless men, women and children of metropolitan Phoenix.  Their focus is on not only feeding and sheltering those on the streets, but providing resources and opportunities for a return to a self sustained life and hope for a brighter future.   

Addiction Recovery Program

The goal of the Addiction Recovery Program is to provide a structured, Christ-centered environment helping individuals change their lives by dealing with their addictions, learning Christian principles, and improving their educational skills. The recovery program is equipped for 21 men at the Mission and women on an outpatient basis at the present time. This 12-month program consists of counseling, educational evaluation and advancement, Bible studies, and job search at the end of the program. Upon completion, the graduates have the tools to hold a job, re-entering society as a contributing member in the local community and church.

Family and Community Outreach

Phoenix Rescue Mission assists families and individuals throughout the community with basic needs every week. Mission chaplains seek out those in need who are unable to come to the Mission.  Food boxes, clothing, and disposable diapers are among the items given away to the poor.  The ministry to working poor families also includes an annual Easter event, Back to School event, Thanksgiving food box giveaway and the Christmas Adopt-a-Family program. The chaplains continue their outreach with the Hope Coach, taking food, water, Bibles and encouragement out to homeless people in local area parks. Phoenix Rescue Mission is there to help provide a solution, whenever possible, to those in need.

Homeless Emergency Services

Service to the poor is the foundation upon which Phoenix Rescue Mission was built.  After over 55 years of service in the Phoenix metropolitan area, this is still the focus of the Mission. Phoenix Rescue Mission is open 365 days a year, serving three meals a day to men, women and children.  In addition, showers, clean clothing, chapel services and counseling are available to anyone in need.  Emergency shelter beds are available for 90 men every night.  All of these services are made possible due to the generosity of thousands of individual donors to the Mission every year.

Visit www.phoenixrescuemission.org for more information.

The Phoenix Rescue Mission was founded in 1952 by six businessmen from the Phoenix area. In the beginning, they ministered to migrant workers and vagrants. "Homelessness" was not yet a term that was associated with persons who had unfortunate circumstances. Our original location was in a building on South 3rd Street in downtown Phoenix. Services provided at that time consisted of an evening meal, Chapel, and much needed clothing. Lodging was not available.

Today, the Mission offers a 24-hour walk in center, 180 emergency shelter beds, 21 addiction recovery beds, three meals daily, showers and clean clothing, a Career Education Center, Chapel services, and referral information.  An additional ministry is the Hope Coach, which is currently on the road, offering lunches, bottled drinks, Christian literature, prayer, blankets and a friendly word of encouragement to the homeless on the streets.

Food boxes are distributed to families, especially single mothers with children, every weekday.  At Thanksgiving and Christmas special holiday food boxes with turkey and all the fixings are given to hundreds of needy families.
Special events are held each year at Easter, for Back to School, Thanksgiving and Christmas for the children in our neighborhoods and area school district.  Here we serve thousands of children by providing clothing and other items they otherwise would likely not receive.  

As we begin the next 50 years, planning is underway to build a new shelter for women and children. God continues to call us to grow and serve more people. The success of the Mission has been a result of the Lord’s blessing of our work. That won’t change in the future ministries of the Mission as we continue to pray and work to stay in God’s will.  As we do that, we will continue to see that we are cared for by the Lord and by you and so many other faithful friends.