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Having to Choosing Between Paying the Bills and Food on the Table

| Filed in Community Outreach, Donate, Feeding Phoenix Updates, Food Drive, Hunger, Meals, Newsletters, poverty, Recovery, Uncategorized

  Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, your aunt’s famous casserole, the list of options with which to pile on your plate goes on and on at most homes during Thanksgiving. But not so for Sara’s family. Hers was one of hundreds in Phoenix who find Thanksgiving a luxury they can ill afford. When life is hard and you’re forced to choose between keeping the lights on or putting food on the table, the holiday season has a way of making it even harder. But today, everything has changed for Sara.

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More Than A Teacher

| Filed in Culinary Arts Program, Food Service Management Program, Newsletters, Recovery, Social Enterprise

For 10 years, Pat Walker has helped homeless and hurting women from all sorts of backgrounds get back on their feet and into fulfilling careers as a part of the Atlanta Rescue Mission. Today she’s bringing her wealth of  experience to the men and women we serve in our vocational development program. “I teach people how to stay focused and to have faith to push through the challenges ahead of them.   When they have excuses, I don’t let them get away with it,” says Pat with

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Deliver Hope this Holiday Season to Families in Need

| Filed in Food Drive, Meals, Volunteer

The Mission will be serving over 1,000 families this year with holiday food boxes along with a frozen turkeys! These food boxes will be hand delivered to families in need on November 17th, but we need your help! The Mission hopes to reach out to 1,000 families this Thanksgiving with a turkey and all the trimmings. We will be hand delivering these boxes complete with a holiday meal to families who may otherwise go without. See firsthand how God uses your gifts to touch

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Feed a Family this Holiday Season

| Filed in Community Outreach, Donate, Events, Feeding Phoenix Updates, Food Drive, General, Homeless, Hunger, Uncategorized

Turkey Collection Saturday is almost here! You can provide a meal to a family in need this Thanksgiving by donating a Frozen Turkey on Frozen Turkey Saturday.  Bring a bird to the Phoenix Rescue Mission and stay for lunch and a tour of our Community Services Center. The Mission hopes to reach out to 1,000 families this Thanksgiving with a turkey and all the trimmings. Your frozen turkey is greatly needed to make this happen. Come bring a turkey and

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