Dedication & Open House Of Mobile Shower Unit Will Provide Showers And Hope For The Homeless In Son

Redwood Gospel Mission's Mobile Shower Unit aims to reach homeless who are not currently receiving services.
 
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - March 11, 2016 - PRLog -- March 11, 2016 - Santa Rosa, CA (Event- March 15, 2016)

There are over 4,000 homeless men, women and children in Sonoma County. Shelters, including ours, are often filled to capacity. During the winter of 2014, Redwood Gospel Mission introduced the Entertaining Angels: Nomadic Shelter Ministry to provide extra beds. We had 30 churches hosting homeless men, women and children for one evening a month from November to March.

In the Fall of 2015, Redwood Gospel Mission shared a vision of a Mobile Ministry, including expanding our Nomadic Shelter Ministry to run for 6 months. In addition to providing additional beds for the homeless, Mobile Ministry includes Search & Rescue efforts and a 2 unit Mobile Shower. Luke 14:23 says, "And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled."

In all neighborhoods of our county, unsheltered individuals and families are living by the creeks, sleeping in bushes, or in other uninhabitable environments. The Search and Rescue team will be going to these environments to "compel them to come in." The Mobile Shower Ministry would allow showers to take place anywhere. By these efforts, we will be able to begin to identify and serve those who are not currently receiving services from shelters or other agencies. Beginning a conversation is the first step in providing a glimmer of hope. Individuals must first be found to start that conversation.

We are very excited to begin the next phase of the Mobile Ministry. Redwood Gospel Mission is happy to share that our 2-unit Mobile Shower has arrived. We are inviting the community to join us at our Men's Ministries, 101 6th St., on March 15th at 12-2pm for an open house and dedication of the Mobile Showers.

A few of the ways the community can become involved:

Attend the Dedication and Open House

Giving financially: Gifts made at www.srmission.org can be made securely.

Collect hygiene items, socks, new coats or other needed items.

Volunteer: www.srmission.org/serve

Pray: For those who will are living in the highways and the hedges.

About Redwood Gospel Mission: The Redwood Gospel Mission (www.srmission.org) has served the homeless, broken and needy of Sonoma County since 1963, providing services such as shelter, meals and clothing to the "least, the last and the lost" who find their way to their facilities. With the help of hundreds of volunteers, the Mission serves over 115,000 meals, provides more than 48,000 bed nights of shelter and distributes thousands of articles of clothing each year, as well as providing showers, haircuts and other services at its five housing facilities in the Santa Rosa area.

For more information, please contact Jeff Gilman - jgilman@srmission.org

Or call (707) 578.1830

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