Miles Found Hope When He Had Given Up

After six years on the streets, your generosity helped Miles find hope, healing, and a future at Phoenix Rescue Mission.

Miles spent six years living on the streets. A painful divorce in 2017 cost him his home, his career, and eventually his will to keep going. To numb the pain, he turned to drugs.

“I just gave up on life,” Miles remembers. “I had no hope that I was ever going to get clean. I thought I was going to die on the street. That was my horrifying truth.”

For two years, Miles slept in his car, moving from parking lot to parking lot until the vehicle was repossessed. After that, he spent four years unsheltered in the East Valley before making his way to central Phoenix, where he slept behind a restaurant in an alleyway for nearly two years.

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