The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved $1.5 million of funding toward the completion of the Gospel Center Rescue Mission's New Life Program Multi-Purpose Center. There's a building on the property that's almost complete that used to house 17 beds. With the new funding, the rescue mission will be able to add 110 more beds.
The money is from interest accrued through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which brings San Joaquin County's total investment in the project to $3.5 million.
People who've gone through the program are helping build it. Among the additional 110 beds, 27 are dedicated to medical recuperative care. There will be recovery services, vocational training, offering shelter, job readiness programs, and a place for people to get back on their feet.
For people experiencing homelessness, this means more space for more of them to rest their heads at night, with private showers, laundry and social rooms, with an elevator for people needing wheelchairs.
The Gospel Center Rescue Mission said it wants people who seek their help to know they are loved and are royalty, the "King's kids," so they have purple painted over doorways to remind them they are royalty, speaking life into them. This is what Midura does to people who enter: he tells them they are loved.
Midura said that every year, the Gospel Center Rescue Mission averages 64 graduates. So in one year, he said that's $4.4 million saved for San Joaquin citizens, and generations of homelessness broken.
Porter was homeless, on drugs and in jail before joining the Gospel Center Rescue Mission's program. Now, he's the director of emergency lodging.
Porter told me that at this time last year, they were about to shut down their emergency lodge because of a lack of funding.
Along with those programs, there is a women's shelter and a program where those experiencing homelessness can be gainfully employed with Church Street Coffee.
Midura said the building is 89% complete.
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