Guest Quotes

The following quotes are from Residents at the Portland Rescue Mission:

• “The meal is like new life, it puts a smile on your face, you get warm inside, you know, get your belly full and you feel like there's hope again.”
• “I want to say thank you to anyone and everyone who supports the mission, whether it be financially, or clothes, or food. I would just want them to know that it all goes to a good cause and without their support the mission would not be able to do it. Without the people outside the mission having a Godly heart about themselves to want to contribute to such a thing it wouldn't be possible.”
• “I walked in here and just to have a meal, and they showed me that they actually cared!”
• “I was actually tryin' to get help because I wanted so much to be off from drugs and alcohol. I was just sick and tired of being sick and tired. They offered me something to eat. "Are you hungry? Do you want something to eat? We got food" I felt a relief once I seen I could get in this place and have a roof over my head and have food to eat it has been wonderful. The mission has really made a change in my life. It has done wonders.”
• “When I walk out on the street with a whole clean set of clothes that's what the Mission gives you, they give you another pair of socks, shoes, everything it makes you feel a lot better. It makes you feel like this is the day. This is the day I'm going to turn my life around.”
• “Yes Hope does begin with a meal and I'm a walking testimony to that one.”
• “When I came to the mission, I actually had not eaten in probably three or four days. I had a pain in my stomach because there was nothing there. When I came here and I got that first meal I started feeling a little bit better. It started me on a road of life change. I entered the long-term program and I've been here almost 14 months. I have been able to start a process of healing with me and my family.”-Donald