Press Release

Frederick Rescue Mission Begins 2010 with Sizable Donation
After one of the worst years economically in US, 2010 starts positively

Frederick, MD, 25 January 2010 — The Frederick Rescue Mission will receive $20,000 from the Foundation of Spirituality and Medicine, a Maryland-based foundation focused on health and healing through spiritual and physiological means, to be used toward the Mission’s Changed Life Recovery Program, which offers life-changing tools for men struggling with addictions.

The Mission is the largest men’s transitional shelter in Frederick. They received half of the donation in early January, and will receive the last half in June. This is the first time they have received a donation from the Foundation of Spirituality and Medicine.

“We are honored and excited to receive this gift from a foundation that encourages holistic healing in a variety of situations,” states Arnold Farlow, Executive Director of the Mission. “These funds will play a vital role in restoring broken and addicted men back to their families and communities as valuable assets.”

The Mission’s Changed Life Recovery Program, better know to many as “Beacon House,” was started in 1964 as a men’s shelter, and has since evolved into the Changed Life Recovery Program in response to the significant issue of addictions in homeless men. Each year an average of 20 men graduate the program. The faith-based program’s components include addiction recovery classes, Bible study, work therapy, community living and service.

For more information on the Frederick Rescue Mission’s Changed Life Recovery Program, visit their Web site at www.therescuemission.org, or contact Keith Rivers, Program Director, at 301-695-6633 x 205.

The Frederick Rescue Mission: Bringing Hope to Frederick since 1964.