Celebrate Recovery Classes have been moved to Monday and Thursday evenings at 6 pm here at the Mission.  A Christ-centered program dealing with hurts, habits and hang-ups of all kinds.

We still need grocery store sized plastic bags and pots, pans and utensils for households.  We also have built a new bookshelf so if you have any non-fiction or Christian books lying around, we would be happy to take them.

Thank you for being such a generous town!

Verse Of The Week:
“Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.”
~ Psalm 23:6

Christian Programming:  8:00 am
(Music or videos) 

Life Skills Classes:  8:30 am
Monday-Stop the bleeding
Tuesday-Start the breathing
Wednesday-Protect the wound
Thursday-Treat for shock
Friday-Movie Day

Bible Study:  9:00 am
The Parables of Jesus

Christian Programming:  10:00 am

Lunch:  12-1 pm
Monday-Mac & cheese
Tuesday-Chicken soup
Wednesday-Sloppy chicken
Thursday-Pork pasole
Friday-Beef stew

Showers and Laundry: 8:00 am -11:30 am

Food, clothing bank and thrift store: 8:30 am-1:30 pm

Celebrate Recovery Addiction classes: Mon & Thu at 6 pm
‘hurts, habits, and hang-ups’

• Case workers are available to pray with you and help you out in other ways
• Food, clothing, and household goods donations are accepted between 8:30 am and 1:30 pm
• Drop by for a tour if you want a behind the scenes look.

♥ It is easy and convenient to become a monthly giving partner. Just click on the ‘Donate Now’ button in the top left corner of our website and you will be able to specify your one-time or monthly gift. Your steady, reliable support allows us to budget better and helps maximize our impact on the lives of the people we are trying to help.

“Two things happened when I turned 12, my Father who used to beat the hell out of us left home and the other thing that happened is I started using drugs… One of my friends said ‘Here try this it will make you feel better’, and it did.

When I turned 13, my Mom found a new partner who lived at home with us. He raped me regularly and abused my younger sisters as well. I was only 13.

He also use to beat Mom up and it was hell on earth. For about a year I suffered through it but when I was fourteen I couldn’t take it anymore, so I said to Mom ‘You have to get rid of this guy, either he goes or I go.’  Mom chose him and I landed on the streets.

Initially I stayed with friends, and then slept with guys to keep a roof over my head.

The cuts all up my arm are from slashing up. I slash myself to turn emotional pain into controllable physical pain. It’s not usually to kill myself, just to help cope with the pain of the past.

I don’t do it much, but if I’m having a shocker week I might just sit there and slash till I reach one hundred cuts.

If the only thing that happens to you in your life is you just keep getting hurt, you end up saying no this isn’t going to happen to me, I’m not going to let myself get hurt anymore, I can’t handle the reality of life I can’t handle any of it why not end it all then I know that I don’t have to deal with any of it.

The last time I tried to kill myself I only had a syringe to slash up with so I was hacking at myself trying to get myself bleeding properly. Then I sniffed paint until I blacked out.

I wanted to bleed to death but it didn’t work because someone found me lying in the big ditch and called an ambulance.

You just give up, that’s it, it’s the end. As soon as you get to that stage where you don’t care if you live or die you end up so upset, so depressed, so hurt with everything that you just cant handle even the day in front of you.

In the end it’s a matter of well if I get through the day then great, if I don’t doesn’t matter, no big deal. It’s not like anyone’s going to miss whether I’m here or not.

To have the confidence to actually do something about where you are is especially hard because you have to build up that confidence.

By the end of the time you come on the streets you’ve lost all confidence in yourself and you think I cant do it even if I try I’m not going to be able to do it.

Just to know that someone cares is the main thing I guess. Most of the people on the street don’t have anyone. We end up with no one when we come out here and you think that no one cares no one worries about you and no ones willing to listen to what goes on in your life… what problems you have.

Then I went to the Gospel Mission. They are willing to give up their time to talk to you and worry about you personally and take the time out to listen to what you have to say, it’s great.

That’s what people need is someone to actually be there and to talk with, to listen, to care, someone to trust.

Knowing that there is someone there to care even if they aren’t there 24 / 7. When I go there you really know it’s someone who accepts you the way you are and they are ready to listen.

They care about me and they miss me if I don’t turn up and that really makes me feel really special, well at least to someone.”

♥ If you have a caring heart and a willing ear and want to help us out, we’d love to talk to you.  We have lay counseling positions open or you can come down and sit in the lunch room and get to know some of the people who come in.

Drop by the Silver City Gospel Mission at 111 S. Texas St behind Jalisco’s Restaurant between 8:30 am and 1:30 pm or give Randy a call at 388-5071 if you are interested in volunteering.

Loretta says our back room is overflowing and we have to take drastic action!

For the next 2 weeks, all baby and kids clothes are only $2 for a grocery store sized bag.  So if you or someone you know has little ones, come down and grab yourself some great clothes for an outstanding price!

 We also would like to take this opportunity to thank the High School Class at Calvary Christian Academy for cooking lunch this past school year.  You guys sure have a servants heart. 

Verse Of The Week:
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
~ Matthew 11:28

Christian Programming: 8:00 am
(Music or videos)

Life Skills Classes: 8:30 am
Monday-Motivation
Tuesday-Work ethic
Wednesday-Values & Morals
Thursday-Health & Hygiene
Friday-Movie Day

Bible Study: 9:00 am
The Parables of Jesus

Christian Programming: 10:00 am
(Music or videos)

Lunch: 12-1 pm
Monday-Pork Roast
Tuesday-Turkey
Wednesday-Enchilada Casserole
Thursday-Quiche
Friday-Spaghetti

Showers and Laundry: 8:00 am -11:30 am

Food, clothing bank and thrift store: 8:30 am-1:30 pm

Celebrate Recovery Addiction classes: Tue & Fri at 6pm
‘hurts, habits, and hang-ups’, including addiction of all kinds’

• Case workers are available to pray with you and help you out in other ways
• Food, clothing, and household goods donations are accepted between 8:30 am and 1:30 pm
• Drop by for a tour if you want a behind the scenes look.

And be sure to check out our website for a more detailed look at the Mission
http://silvercitygospelmission.org/

♥ It is easy and convenient to become a monthly giving partner. Just click on the ‘Donate Now’ button in the top left corner of our website and you will be able to specify your one-time or monthly gift. Your steady, reliable support allows us to budget better and helps maximize our impact on the lives of the people we are trying to help.

The Silver City Gospel Mission always needs help in the thrift store, soup kitchen and food pantry, but Your volunteer experience is only limited by your creativity.

If you have special skills or talents that you think might make a difference in someones life, we’d love to talk about them with you.

It’s easy to volunteer.  Just drop by the Mission and fill out our Volunteer form, talk to Randy, take an orientation tour and allow your talents to soar!

Discover the joy of giving back to your community: become a Silver City Gospel Mission volunteer TODAY!

Christian Programming:  8:00 am
(Music or videos)
 
Life Skills Classes:  8:30 am
Monday-Foot care clinic
Tuesday-Money management
Wednesday-Fire safety
Thursday-Time management
Friday-Movie Day

Bible Study:  9:00 am
The Parables of Jesus

One of the most effective ways of making a difference to your community is to volunteer your skills.

The Silver City Gospel Mission always needs help in the thrift store, soup kitchen and food pantry, but Your volunteer experience is only limited by your creativity.

If you have special skills or talents that you think might make a difference in someones life, we’d love to talk about them with you.

We have had volunteers offer their special skills in many areas. Everything from health care, teaching and mentoring and computer skills to fashion and design, carpentry and survival skills.

Here are a few benefits you may receive as a volunteer:

• Volunteering helps you make new friends and contacts
• Volunteering increases your social and relationship skills
• Volunteering increases self-confidence
• Volunteering combats depression
• Volunteering helps you stay physically healthy
• Volunteering can provide career experience
• Volunteering can teach you valuable job skills
• Volunteering brings fun and fulfillment to your life
• Volunteering brings you joy!

It’s easy to volunteer.  Just drop by the Mission and fill out our Volunteer form, talk to Randy, take an orientation tour and allow your talents to soar!

So discover the joy of giving back to your community: become a Silver City Gospel Mission volunteer TODAY!

Spring is in the air down here at the Mission and our greenhouse plants are coming right along with the women and kids watching and watering them daily.  The soup kitchen has been full, life skills classes are available for those who want to improve and our case workers are making some spiritual and physical inroads in some pretty desperate circumstances.

If you are doing any Spring cleaning, we need mens’ jeans and still need pots, pans and eating utensils.   Please drop them off anytime between 8:30 am and 1:30 pm any Monday through Friday.

Thanks to you, our fight against hunger, cold and spiritual darkness in Silver City is going well!    We literally couldn’t run this place without you!

Verse Of The Week:
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
~Colossians 3:21

There are many reasons to visit the Silver City Gospel Mission Thrift Store.  Here are a few of our favorite reasons to shop at the store:

• The Gospel Mission is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re going to find! Persian rugs, exquisite furniture, valuable art, out-of-print first edition books and items from your childhood, among other treasures.
• Our prices can’t be beat!  Shoes, dresses, pants and purses at $2; blouses at $1.50; undergarments and socks at .50 cents!
• Tons of unique accessories; belts, scarves and hats galore!
• New merchandise every day! The Silver City Gospel Mission regularly rotates its merchandise to insure that we have something new to offer customers every single day of the week.
•  We give you a chance to try a brand name for which you wouldn’t dream of paying full price…or even department store sale prices.  Paying $5…or less…for new, with the tags, designer jeans is fun…especially when your non-thrift store limit is $20 or so.
• The Silver City Gospel Mission is locally owned and operated, and supports the local economy. Unlike TV shopping networks, shopping here keeps your dollars in Silver City.
• Our sales staff is friendly, knowledgeable and there are plenty of us. No one wanders around looking for a clerk when you shop at the Mission!

And the best reason ever to shop at The Silver City Gospel Mission Thrift Store (drum roll):

Every time you shop here, the money we make in our store goes right back into feeding the hungry and clothing the cold of Silver City. Thank you!

The Silver City Gospel Mission is located at 111 S. Texas Street.  (the end of Bullard St. in the parking lot behind Jalisco’s Restaurant).

We are open Monday through Friday from 8:30 am – 1:30 pm and are a non-profit 501-C3 charity and all of your donations are tax deductible.

Your tax-deductible donations of clothes and household items are always welcome and appreciated. You can drop them off at the Mission anytime between 8:30 am and 1:30 pm, Monday through Friday.

We serve Hundreds of needy families every month in the food and clothing bank and everything we sell in the thrift store goes right back into feeding and clothing the hungry of Silver City.

Verse Of The Week:
The heavens declare the glory of God;the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
~Psalm 19:1

Christian Programming: 8:00 am
(Music or videos)

Life Skills Classes: 8:30 am
Monday-Foot care clinic
Tuesday-Market Research
Wednesday-Making Money From Your Garden
Thursday-The Productive Garden
Friday-Movie Day

Bible Study: 9:00 am
Sacred Rhythms by Ruth Haley Barton

Christian Programming: 11:00 am
(Music or videos)

Lunch: 12-1 pm
Monday-Chicken Cacciatore
Tuesday-Creole Rice
Wednesday-Tacos
Thursday-Pork Roast
Friday-Turkey Surprise

Showers and Laundry: 8:00 am -11:30 am

Food, clothing bank and thrift store: 8:30 am-1:30 pm

Celebrate Recovery Addiction classes: Tue & Fri at 6pm

• Case workers are available to pray with you and help you out in other ways
• Food, clothing, and household goods donations are accepted between 8:30 am and 1:30 pm
• Drop by for a tour if you want a behind the scenes look.

And be sure to check out our website for a more detailed look at the Mission

http://silvercitygospelmission.org/

and Pastor Shane’s Services at

http://silvercitygospelmission.org/gospel-mission-community-church/

Food rescue does not involve superheroes in capes. Also called food recovery, it is the practice of retrieving edible food that would otherwise go to waste and distributing it to those in need. In most cases, the recovered food is perfectly edible, but not sellable. For example, it’s day old bread or bagged lettuce past its “sell-by” date. Often, it’s in great shape.

The food that the Silver City Gospel Mission picks up is donated by supermarkets, restaurants and farms. In most cases, the rescued food is being saved from the dumpster and, ultimately, the landfill. Food recovered on farms is kept from being plowed under. On farms, the donations often must be harvested, or gleaned, by volunteers.

Businesses that participate receive tax benefits for their donations, freedom from liability lawsuits thanks to the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act and the warm, fuzzy feeling that comes from doing the right thing. Heck, you may even receive positive publicity in the local press and on this site.

If you’re a restaurateur, supermarket supervisor or farmer who doesn’t enjoy throwing away food, we’d sure like to talk to you. We currently regularly rescue food from WalMart, Albertson’s, and Pizza Hut.

If you’re just an interested party, you can still help. It’s easy and rewarding to get involved at the Gospel Mission. Just drop by any Monday through Friday between 8:30 am and 1:30 pm and ask for Randy.

Lug, tote, carry, haul, pack, cart and transport. We do this every day, and the bag that does the job had better be suited for the job and look great.

At the Silver City Gospel Mission, we have a wide variety of purses, totes, handbags, satchels, pocketbooks and suitcases.

Depending on what comes in that day, it can be everything from brand new, never-before-used, top-of-the-line name brand purses to home-made, hand-decorated, stylish shopping bags.

So come on down and find your next purse or bag.

The Silver City Gospel Mission Thrift Store is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 am -1:30 pm.

We are located at 111 S. Texas Street in downtown Silver City in the parking lot behind Jaliscos Restaurant and our phone number is 575-388-5071.

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