Give Meals Now
Mission: Light Our Valley
Give Meals Now

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 continues to be 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 200 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
Safe
Shelter
Veteran
Services
A Stable
Job
Learn About
Jesus
Hope
Transitional
Housing
Life
Skills

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.

Meals Give Meals
Julie

How Meals Change Lives

Julie is happy and thriving in life. She's living on her own and has a great career as a long-term and hospice care giver. But just a short time back, that wasn't the case.

Julie was violently forced out of her home from domestic abuse. When she turned to the only family member she could, she was turned away. Suddenly, she and her son were all alone and stuck living in a van.

Julie remembers it was cold, dangerous, and they had little to eat, "Sometimes I would eat once a day, or not at all, just to try and make things work. When we did have food, I wouldn't eat as much, that way my son could eat."

Then tragedy struck again as her van was totaled. Injured, she was unable to work. Penniless, homeless, and suffering from depression and PTSD. .. Julie lost all hope.

"It was a very gloomy and overwhelming feeling, thinking 'Where am I going to go and be safe?'"

In her desperation, Julie came off the streets and into the Rescue Mission, where we met her with love and compassion.

"What was really special was one gal in there had gotten some food before I came in and offered me her last plate. There was kindness and the caseworkers were encouraging, and they just brought me in! Once I got in here, I had a sense of peace."

It was that first meal and act of compassion that convinced Julie to stay and get the long-term help she needed.

And that's what Light Our Valley is all about! It's turning the darkness into the light that Jesus offers.

There are hundreds more like Julie all throughout the Treasure Valley that need our help. But we can't do it alone. . . we need your help!

Lives are changed every day here at Boise Rescue Mission Ministries, and it almost always starts with a meal. Just like the one you can provide for only $3.27 today!


Together we can make a difference in the Treasure Valley.

Each $3.27 you give provides a hot meal served with kindness that can open the door to life-changing relationships and real, lasting help.

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Why it Works

Meals are only the beginning of a path to change. Julie’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.

  1. A nourishing meal invites people to come in off the street and meets their immediate needs.
  2. Meals served with warmth and welcome build relationships.
  3. As relationships deepen, we offer the hope of a changed life.
  4. 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!

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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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