StephenReed

Today we went to the Nashville Rescue Mission. We started at 8 am, first meeting a gentlemen by the name of Willie the coordinator of the center. He kept everyone in line and heading in the right direction. He first told us that the center use to be a Sears which was transformed into what we now know as the NRM.
We started off by cleaning an area out of shoes so they would know which to keep for later and ones to give to the normal people coming in and out of the center. As we were working, they saw that we were becoming thirsty and rewarded us for our work by quenching our thirst. That is when I met a guy named Pittman. He was a member of the program they have at the rescue mission. He asked me to help him retrieve our drinks so I walked and talked to him. He told me that they have 100 members in a seven month program to rehabilitate anyone that is asking for the help no matter if they have a gambling problem or a drug problem-they are there to help. He told me it was a great
program , he didn’t go into his personal problem but said that it has helped him many times over. The mission takes the 100 people that are in the private program and have them work in house. Each of the members work 6hrs a day around 5 days a week. Pittman and I served the group with beverages making the whole troop happier as they worked like busy little bees. As we moved into lunch time they served us lunch which was very good. We then served the members their food after that we cleared the tables and talked to some of the other members. Once we got done there we went back down stairs working on sorting blankets to cover the newly homeless or just to give the regulars new covers so that they can stay warm on the cold nights of Nashville. Willie also informed us that they have 100 members on the program that stay in dorm like rooms during there seven month stay. Then they house 300 members over night every night & also house another 100 when needed. Then Willie told us more stories of what he has seen while we were resting from all our hard working from he kept telling us that even if we don’t think we made a dent in all they need done but we surely improved the housing donation area. Then they fed us again which was rather nice of them. Then we headed back to the hotel to have much needed reflection and rest. I would love to go there every year to help them out for a week.