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 The Rescue Mission Alliance is a Christian Non-Profit organization ministering to the needs of the less fortunate in Southern California through emergency and long-term rehabilitation services.

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We offer services free of charge to the poor and needy in our community with a wide range of life-changing treatment programs that address the whole person – body, mind, and spirit.

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Our History

Founded by Charles and Mary Pope in the 1970’s, the Rescue Mission Alliance has had a tremendous impact on communities throughout Southern California.

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Each year, thousands of people offer their time, talent, and goodness of heart to outreach projects, to help make a difference in the lives of the hurting and the homeless.

Lives Changed For Good.

It takes a village: Thank you for being part of ours

Together, we’re turning compassion into action I cannot believe it’s already February! Here, at Rescue Mission Alliance Central Coast, we have been busy in all the appropriate ways. Our programs for men and women are bustling. Both have seen tremendous wins in residents’ lives, whether it be through vocational growth, recovery growth, graduations, college success,…

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For Dom, honesty became the first step toward healing

Facing the truth changed everything Growing up, Dom’s father was frequently in and out of prison, leaving a major hole in his life. “I wanted a father figure and there just wasn’t one,” Dom said. “I think if my dad was there, I wouldn’t have done the things that I did.” When his father was…

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Rescued from the river bottom, Tony is ‘overwhelmed with gratitude’

Tony remembers vividly the moment God rescued him. “I had originally gone to the river bottom thinking I was going to help others that were living there, but soon I was fully back into my addictions. I ended up living there as well.”Tony lived in the river bottom for years, never seeming to see a…

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Every day as the sun rises and sets over Southern California, the Rescue Mission Alliance is changing lives for good.

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