Our History

Gospel Rescue Ministries was founded on May 12, 1906 as "the Gospel Mission" to offer religious services to men. 

Within four years, GRM grew from those simple origins into something that would further benefit the nation’s capitol and expanded our services to include food, shelter, and work programs.

That expansion has continued for over 100 years and is growing by leaps and bounds as we continue to seek new ways of helping homeless men and women by to continuing to offer help, hope, and healing to those struggling with addiction and homelessness.  

Fast forward nearly a century to 1993...In recent years we have also introduced these impactful programs.

• The Transforming Lives Ministry - our drug treatment program for men was established in 1993
  
• The School of Tomorrow - opened its doors, adding the essential component of education and training to our array of services in 1994.
  
• Transitional housing resources - were greatly enhanced as our focus in 1998
  
   
• The Fulton House of Hope - substance abuse treatment program for women was established in 2000.
   
• Ready to Work - our transitional work program began in 2003
   
• The BEST Job Development program - got off the ground in 2004   

Over 100 years later, GRM has continued to provide help, hope, and healing to those struggling with addiction and homelessness.

Our hope is that through the power and grace of God, men and women in our life transforming services will uses their new skills acquired through substance abuse recovery, educational and vocational training, and other social services and take the opportunity to choose a new vision for their lives beyond the destruction of drugs, violence, and crime.

We know this transformation occurs.  We have seen it through hundreds of lives changed in our community. 

With your partnership we can do so much more.  Please visit our Get Involved page to see how we could use your time, service and talents.

Read more about the specific programs on our Programs and Services pages.