Merry Christmas!
Thank you, for all of your support to Union Rescue Mission! Christmas is approaching and Union Rescue Mission is a very busy place. For the first time in our history, we are housing over 1,000 precious people under our roof each night, and on Dec. 1st we opened another 660 beds at 4 Winter Shelters in Glendale, Culver City, West LA and downtown URM.
We are feeding an astounding 3200 delicious meals each day to our regular guests, and an additional 1,320 meals to our Winter Shelter guests from Dec. 1st to March 15th. The best news is that since opening our 5th floor wing especially for families new to homelessness last Fall, we have re-launched 41 families back into their own housing, complete with donated furniture from our warehouse.
Like all of our families, these precious children and their dad showed up at URM somewhat shell-shocked. Thanks to your support, they now have a place to call home.
As if that were not enough to keep us hopping, we stepped up to the challenge of opening up our 18th annual Christmas Store December 18th & 19th. We gathered gifts, transformed our URM Chapel into a Department Store like setting, and invited 1,000 families to come and shop, free of charge, for their own families. This allows parents the dignity of providing for their own children, and allows children to enjoy the gift of giving a gift to their parents.
We couldn’t even begin to take on these challenges without your support. If you’ve already sent an end of year gift,thank you! If you have not yet sent an end of year gift, I want to invite you to partner once again with us in this life-saving and life changing work.
Have a Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year!
Much love and appreciation,
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