The Best Gifts can’t be Wrapped
Before coming to the Mission, Ashley hadn’t seen her son for eight years.Not for his birthday. Not for Thanksgiving. Not for Christmas. In fact, while...
When we first met Juan, he was malnourished and on the verge of starving. At 6’1” and 150 pounds, he looked skeletal. Juan had been battling a fierce addiction for years, the last 10 of which he’d been homeless. The only way he survived the summer was by getting ice from gas stations and dumping chilled water over his head and body. “When you smoke meth, your body temperature rises,” he says. Life was miserable except for one bright spot. A flicker of hope – the Phoenix Rescue Mission’s Street Outreach Team.