Frederick Rescue Mission - Beacon House
Address
419 W South St
Frederick, MD - 21701
Transitional shelter for homeless men, operated by the Frederick Rescue Mission.
An
average of 70 men each year enter the doors of the Frederick Rescue
Mission with the intention of getting their lives back on track after
stints of homelessness, addiction, and/or jail time. What began as a
ten-bed shelter in 1964, now can house up to 40 men participating in the
Mission’s year-long Changed Life Recovery Program. Men who go through
the program attempt to attain these 8 goals:
1—Be passionate about Jesus Christ
2—Be victorious over addiction
3—Be connected to a local church
4—Have a mentor and/or be part of an accountability group
5—Obtain education for the future
6—Find safe and affordable housing
7—Obtain a financially sustaining job
8—Be reconciled to his family as much as possible
All
men are required to participate in work therapy while they’re in the
program, which consists of helping to run the services the Mission
provides to the community. Men will be assigned to areas such as the
kitchen, recycling, the front desk, or facilities.
A typical day for
the men starts with quiet time, Bible study, and recovery curriculum.
They then use their afternoons for work therapy. Their evenings are
filled with recovery programming such as chapel, Celebrate Recovery,
Bible classes, and/or relaxation and fun such as game nights or field
trips.
During his time in the program, a man has the opportunity to
gain his GED, obtain his driver’s license, work on his resume, and
settle any ongoing court issues. The men are subjected to random drug,
alcohol, and nicotine tests, with zero tolerance for using while in the
program.
It is the Mission’s hope to restore these men back to their
families and communities as upstanding, influential men making a stand
for lives of integrity


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