If you're a person of faith who attends a church, you know what a big difference exists between professing God's truth and actually living it. But if we know this, circumstances — churches languishing across the country, the fight for the heart of the Christian faith, the demands of our jobs and families, the challenges of surviving in our economy — make engaged and committed service to our neighbors and community tougher than ever to prioritize. 

We recognize that our churches face a unique challenge — that of growing their ministries while also remembering that our love of Christ must come from the cross, that is, in our willingness to imitate His sacrifice, to forego some of our own needs and comforts to extend compassion to our neighbors in their need. 

We believe that extraordinary times call for extraordinary acts of love. Your contributions can look like: 

• Financially supporting the Mission by donating clothing, food or services. Regular monetary gifts are especially appreciated in our current climate. (If your church community consists of healers such as chiropractors, musicians, massage therapists, art therapists or counselors, we could also very much use their talents to bring much-needed healing, creativity and beauty to our guests). 

• Volunteering a few hours a week, either in a church group or on your own, as a sous chef/dishwasher in our kitchen, a lay counselor talking to our guests at breakfast and lunch, or sorting donations and food. 

• Inviting the Silver City Gospel Mission to your church to give a presentation about our work and on the issue of homelessness. As our organization continues to grow, we see the raising of awareness as a vital piece of our calling. 

“The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the ‘poor in spirit.” — A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“If there were a prize today for people who make excuses I think we’d all win something. And because our faith is often weak, we excuse ourselves from answering God’s call, from doing God’s will, from listening to the Church, from listening to the Gospel. We come up with all the fantastic reasons why we don’t have to be good; why we don’t have to strive; why we don’t have to go that extra mile that God is asking us to go, and to show that extra bit of compassion or that extra bit of love, to do that extra bit of work. And so we make excuses that are so comfortable that we can literally walk away and forget what God asks us to do.” — Mr. Angelica’s Guide to the Spiritual Life