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Corporate/Food Donations

A large majority of the food served at the Fresno Rescue Mission is donated by local companies, who freely share the abundance given to them through their business. There are many ways corporations and businesses can support the Fresno Rescue Mission:

  • Financial donations are always welcomed.
  • Donate in-kind gifts of new or gently used merchandise. We are always in need of new underwear, socks, personal care items, sweatshirts, suits and other clothing. Your business could sponsor a sock drive, or personal care drive, etc. Employees and customers are oftentimes looking for a way to help.
  • Participate in Fresno Rescue Mission sponsored fundraisers by purchasing a table, offering to be a corporate sponsor, or participating in an event.
  • Plan and sponsor your own fund raiser to benefit the Mission - e.g. golf tournament, bowling tournament, raffle, silent auction, dinner, etc.
  • Donate your time. You may have a skill or gift needed by the Mission.
  • Hire one of our Academy or Samaritan Women graduates.

However you choose to give, you are making a difference to the least, the last and the lost!

To make a donation or plan an event, please contact our:

Resource Development Department
(559) 268-0839, Ext. 204.
or email jsteinhauer@fresnorescuemission.org

Last Updated Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 11:50 AM.

Sammy & The Academy's "TEAM GOD"

 

Article appeared in Lighthouse News - December 2012 issue:

Sammy is blessed. To label him as such is in direct opposition to his autobiographical description. He was raised in a highly dysfunctional setting. He was introduced to drugs by the age of seven, when most young boys are still playing with GI Joes. He was part of a gang in his early teens and, as a result of that association and lifestyle, he spent most of his adult life imprisoned or institutionalized. All of these elements, in and of themselves, could easily render an individual hardened, illiterate, combustible, inarticulate and devoid of any social skills. Not Sammy. Sammy has been blessed by God.

After spending two decades behind bars for second degree murder (a drug related incident from his gang activities), Sammy was paroled, choosing to enter the Mission’s Academy (18 month rehabilitation and recovery program), in accordance with the terms of his release. He met the Lord while he was in prison, so finding a Christ-centered environment was his desire. “My greatest concern in coming to the program was the...
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