Video: 2018 Easter Banquet
Thank you to everyone who helped make our annual Easter Banquet a success on Good Friday. In addition to serving hundreds of meals to the hungry, hurting, and homeless at the new Men’s Home, we also held a foot-washing service and provided shoes, socks, and a bag of hygiene items for each guest. This event […]
Video: 2017 Christmas Banquet
Gallery: 2017 Thanksgiving Banquet
An estimated 1,000 hungry men, women, and children were served a delicious Thanksgiving meal of turkey and all the trimmings by volunteers at the final Great Thanksgiving Banquet hosted by the Orlando Union Rescue Mission at the old Men’s Home in downtown Orlando. Guests also received coats and other clothing, as well as hygiene items […]
Tim’s story
Tim barely recognizes the disheveled version of himself in the gallery of police mugshots taken between 1993 and 2014. “That feels like a lifetime ago,” he says. “I’m a totally different person now, thanks to the Lord and the Orlando Union Rescue Mission.” Tim had spent more than half his adult life incarcerated, mostly for […]
Gallery – 2017 Easter Banquet
Video: I am the Mission
The men we serve at the Mission’s Men’s Home aren’t the stereotypical faces of homelessness. They all have different stories of how they arrived here, but the one thing they have in common is a desire to improve their lives and become hard workers, productive citizens and good neighbors.
Thank you from Khallid
Hello my friend! I’m Khallid and I’m preparing to move out of the Orlando Union Rescue Mission’s Men’s Home. I don’t know where I’d be without the Mission. I was born in Egypt and raised a Muslim. When I first found myself homeless, I didn’t come to the Mission because my Muslim friends told me […]
Summer 2016 Newsletter – Turning a Mess into a Message
Ron Betts calls it a “jacked up life.” How else would you describe the life of a 4-year-old boy whose aunt sexually abused him and exposed him to street drugs, who grew into a drug-addicted homeless man who couldn’t hold down a job and ate food out of a trash can? Ron had every excuse in the world […]
October 2016 Newsletter: Mission Accomplished
It’s been more than three years since John left O.U.R. Men’s Home, but he remains a familiar face around the Mission as a volunteer. “I help with iDignity every other month, and I sometimes cut the grass at the Family Home,” he says. “I’ll always give back to this place that gave so much to me.” […]
October 2016 Newsletter – President’s Corner: Preparing for our busiest time of the year
We are entering our busiest season of the year here at the Mission. Over the next few months, we will see a big increase in the number of men, women, and children who need food, shelter, and clothing. Consequently, all our available beds are occupied, our kitchens are feeding as many of the desperately poor […]