Change Starts With You!
Every $2.70 you give provides one meal to someone in need in the Treasure Valley and helps them get off the street! Ending homelessness, hunger, and addiction can begin with a meal.
How Meals Change Lives
Over the past 6 decades, Boise Rescue Mission Ministries has continued to refine and improve how we engage with people in Boise and Nampa who are struggling with homelessness, poverty, and addiction. Our goal is always to provide genuine and lasting help with love and kindness.
Offering meals is the most effective way to begin a process of transformation. Men, women, and children experiencing homelessness successfully create lasting change in their lives here at the Rescue Mission. The meals we serve are never a “hand out,” but always offer love, relationship, and genuine help. Last year, the Rescue Mission helped over 450 people in the Treasure Valley transition from homelessness to independence. The meals your gift will provide are often the beginning point.
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ADDICTION RECOVERY
Christ-centered support and tools help people overcome addiction and lead to a new way of living.
Safe Shelter
A safe place to sleep gives people a place to begin healing.
VETERAN SERVICES
After serving our country, many veterans have trouble acclimating to civilian life. Focusing on taking care of more than just physical needs helps restore the lives of chronically homeless veterans across the Treasure Valley.
A STABLE JOB
Job skills, résumé training, and interview practice helps people put their best foot forward to get the right job so they can save up for an apartment or house.
LEARN ABOUT JESUS
The best addiction recovery program, the best job-training classes, and the most experienced staff means nothing if it's not centered in God and His Son. Guests learn about Jesus, His love for them, and how He is working in their lives.
HOPE
Having a good, hot meal in our dining room shows someone that they can stop focusing on survival and instead have hope that they can thrive tomorrow.
LIFE SKILLS
Classes focused on life skills like budgeting and parenting give men and women the tools they need to be successful long term as they start a new life.
Transitional housing
Transitional housing helps previously homeless individuals begin to live independently while still having support as they transition into a self-supported life.
MEALS
For someone who is homeless and hungry, a healthy meal served in our dining room is the first step towards hope.
The Incredible Way Meals Change Lives!
Eighteen months sober, employed, and full of gratitude — Shawn’s life looks completely different today. It’s an incredible change from his past.
Growing up, Shawn’s mom was a drug addict who introduced him to meth when he was just 13. The pain and chaos only got worse from there. Addiction took hold. Then his parents passed away, leaving him homeless.
He remembers sleeping in farmland with just a sleeping bag. Feeling the aches that come from spending night after night on hard ground. Not having a place to shower. To put it kindly, he said, “It was rough.”
What really stands out is how hungry he was. Sometimes he’d go a couple of days without a meal, and often eat out of dumpsters. He describes it as, “Hard. Brutal. Degrading.”
But when Shawn was at his lowest, he heard about Boise Rescue Mission Ministries. He arrived and felt relief almost immediately as the “simple” things like a meal and a bed worked wonders.
Thanks to friends like you, Shawn ate good meals that encouraged him to stay for deeper help — plus hot showers and a safe place to sleep. He specifically remembers having a special time here last Thanksgiving: “It’s nice for somebody like me that doesn’t have a family. You feel connected.”
That connection helped Shawn make even bigger changes. He got Biblical encouragement. Assistance to get and stay sober. And then help to get a job! In his words:
“This place saved my life.”
Shawn tells us he was heading down “a really dark road.” But now he’s walking in light and believes in God — and that’s what Light Our Valley is all about! It’s our chance to care for hurting neighbors, help them overcome the darkness, and point them to Jesus. And now, as temperatures cool, hundreds urgently need this kind of care. Will you help?
Lives are changed every day here at Boise Rescue Mission Ministries, and it almost always starts with a meal served with love and compassion.
You can provide that for only $2.70 today!
Together we can make a difference in the Treasure Valley.
Each $2.70 you give provides a hot meal served with kindness that can open the door to life-changing relationships and real, lasting help.
Why it Works
Meals are only the beginning of a path to change. Shawn’s story is a great example of how hurting people come for food and shelter, but find the help they need to transform their lives. “Homeless to Hired” often begins with a meal.
- A nourishing meal invites people to come in off the street and meets their immediate needs.
- Meals served with warmth and welcome build relationships.
- As relationships deepen, we offer the hope of a changed life.
- Our Christ-centered ministry and programs provide the necessary tools to become successful, self-sufficient members of our community.
A Word From Rev
President and CEO Rev. Bill Roscoe shares the vision behind Mission: Light Our Valley.
Light Our Valley Now!
Together we can make a real difference in the
lives of hurting and homeless men, women, and
children in our community.
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