New Annual Report – The Journey Home

Our new Annual Report reveals the incredible life change that happens through compassionate support of friends like you.Dozens of men and women now once suffering from homelessness and addiction now live joy-filled lives because of our New Life Recovery Ministry at the Mission. Their “journey home” is not complete, but they now are on a better path.Download a PDF of “The...

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Francis’ Story of Hope

Francis needed help finding housing. The Portland Rescue Mission LINK program helped him stop the downward spiral to homelessness and its challenges.Francis’ Story of Hope on YouTubeThrough our LINK program, homeless men who are sober and drug-free can have an extended stay at our Burnside Shelter while they look for work and save money.In exchange, they work several hours a week alongside our staff to help keep our facilities and ministries working...

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NEA Helps Provide Meals For Portland Homeless

Portland Rescue Mission recently received a gracious invitation to partner with the National Education Association (NEA) at the annual NEA Conference on Higher Education held in Portland this year.Keeping with the conference theme of “Common Good”, organizers held a silent auction with all proceeds given to Portland Rescue Mission — enough to provide over 400 meals...

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Eagle Scout Collects 500 Coats for Homeless

Winter is hard on the many men, women and children who live on the streets here in Portland. Portland Rescue Mission supplies many of the needs that homeless people are not able to provide for themselves. We are in constant need of coats, hats, socks and gloves to keep the cold and rain at bay. That is why we are grateful for people like Colin Cathey, a high school student...

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Faces of Addiction

Vanessa, thirty-five, had three children with an abusive husband. She “lost her mind, started doing heroin,” after losing the children, who were taken away and given to her mother. The drugs led to homelessness and prostitution. She grew up on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, but now spends her time in Hunts Point, “trying to survive everyday. Just doing whatever it takes.”Photo...

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