“I look back on my experience at the Mission as a rebirth…” Everything good happened for me when I walked into Rockford Rescue Mission and made the decision to change my life. I had been in drug addiction for five years, bouncing back and forth between...
From Sherry Pitney, CEO Our dear friend, Nora Sandahl, died Dec. 3, 2021. Let me tell you a story of how God used Nora and her family. In early 1996, the Mission had outgrown our Madison Street location and we were forming plans for the facility you...
If you don't have a friend in the world, you can find one here. That sign used to hang outside Rockford Rescue Mission, and it was a big reason I came here for help. I'm a military brat. We bounced around a lot when I...
I was the woman people would look at and say, “She has everything.” Nice home, great Christian family. But I had a secret. I was a victim of sexual abuse between the ages 4 and 8. I carried that secret for 40 years — but...
