Reaching Hearts… Changing Lives

A Newsletter of Lexington Rescue Mission Vol 20 Issue 3

Rescue ALERT

What you’ll find inside

• The Table of Grace• Pray and Give Thanks• ”God wanted me to be here.”• Thanksgiving is back!

Through good times and bad, Steve always knew God was looking out for him. So, when an opportunity to change his life and increase his walk with Christ came here at the Mission, he took it!

Read more of his remarkable story on Page 3!

“God was looking out for me.”

DONATE. VOLUNTEER. CONNECT. lexingtonrescue.org fIYYES, I’ll bless people in need with food, shelter and care this Thanksgiving season.

$25.92 for 12 meals and care

$51.48 for 24 meals and care

$75.60 for 35 meals and care

$ to help as many

people as possible

Lexington Rescue MissionP.O. Box 1050Lexington, KY 40588-1050

N09211300

New lives and new beginnings start

Mail your Fall gift today, or donate online at lexingtonrescue.org.

THANK YOU!

Hot meals

A place to sleep

Changed lives

THANK YOU!Volunteers welcome

Individuals, groups or families. For more information, please contact Yvette Davis, our Volunteer Coordinator, at

(859) 381-9600, ext. 226. Or go to lexingtonrescue.org and click on “Volunteer.”

Pray & Give Thanks!Please join us as we:

Give thanks for all God has done at the Mission over the past 20 years.

Pray for the men and women who are building better lives for themselves at The Potter’s House, The House of Hope and Grace Place.

Give thanks for our wonderful volunteers who find joy, re-freshment and fulfillment through their services, and without whom this ministry would not be possible.

Pray for neighbors who are still homeless, hungry and in need, that they may find help and hope.

Give thanks to the Lord for His never-ending love for us, His grace, forgiveness, and healing.

Rejoice for those who have accepted Jesus into their lives!

Donations to Lexington Rescue Mission are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

It’s easy to give your gift online: lexingtonrescue.org or text Mission to (833) 635-0968.

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This Thanksgiving season, more than 11,500 meals will be served each and every day at tables where guests are treated with dignity and respect.

We expect every seat to be filled at every meal. No one is forgotten. No one will go hungry. And so much more than food is offered, as this song reminds us:

At the table of grace, the cup’s never empty.

The plate’s always full, and it’s never too late.

To come and be filled with love never ending:

Everyone’s welcome at the table of grace.*

Help, hope and grace are available for all here at the Mission, especially during the holidays.

Our Annual Day-Before-Thanksgiving Dinner is back. With many individuals and families still struggling, we expect more neighbors than ever at our table now and during the Holidays.

There are so many ways to be part of the Table of Grace: Volunteer. Donate food. Pray for those we serve. Make a gift to the Mission.

Your support today will bring more people to the table tomorrow!

Giving thanks for you,

*Table Of Grace lyrics © Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publ.

The Table of Grace Steve grew up in a home where his

family “didn’t really go to church a lot.” His Mom was God-fearing, and his father became that way later in

life, but Steve didn’t really start growing in his faith until he learned to lean on the Lord.

Drinking and drugs got him “in a bad way,” eventually leading to a separation from his wife and arrest. “That changed my life forever,” he says. “I might not be alive today if that hadn’t happened. I realize that God was looking out for me, even when I didn’t think He was.”

A long-term treatment center put Steve back on the right track, and it was there that he learned about the Lexington Rescue Mission and applied for a place at The Potter’s House. “I didn’t have a job. I didn’t have a place to go. I didn’t have footing.”

“It was the best decision I made in my life.”

“The guys here have helped me in my walk with Christ. They knew when I came in that I wanted to change my life, and they have helped me every day.”

Along with other men from the Mission, Steve works in the mill part of Old World Timber. “The owner has gone out of his way to help me and a lot of the other guys from the Mission.”

When he’s ready to live on his own again, Steve wants to continue to stay in touch with

“God wanted me to be here.”the Mission and serve others here. “It’s just like the book of Peter,” he says. “’Be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you.’ I want to tell people about Jesus, that’s it. That’s what I want to do with my life, and whatever God has besides that, it’s okay.”

Thank you for helping Steve rebuild his life through your prayers and support!

Laura Carr, Executive Director

DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

Turkey & All the TrimmingsTurkeys and/or hamsStove Top-type stuffing mixBoxed instant potatoes

Packaged gravy mix15 oz. canned corn15 oz. green beans15 oz. canned fruit15 oz. canned cranberry sauce29 oz. canned yams or sweet potatoesRusset potatoes

Brown sugarButter or margarine in tubsSets of picnic salt & pepperPackages of ‘brown and serve’ rollsPumpkin pies

Directions: Combine with love and feed 11,500 hungry people.Help us fill the pantry for Thanksgiving Dinner. Please drop off donations at our Outreach Center, 444 Glen Arvin Avenue, Lexington. Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. For more information, please call Tammy Clay at (859) 785-0967.

Complete Thanksgiving Dinner — just $2.16Thanksgiving will be here before you know it. And that means our kitchen staff is already gearing up to prepare thousands of traditional Thanksgiving dinners with all the trimmings: turkey, gravy, potatoes, rolls, pumpkin pies – you name it.

Your generous support today will help ensure that we have enough food to feed every hungry person who walks through our doors.

At just $2.16 per meal, imagine how many lives you can touch. Please send a generous gift today, or donate securely online at lexingtonrescue.org. Thank you!

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gift at lexingtonrescue.org.

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