KCRM News Feed

Congratulations to our executive director, Rev. Joe Colaizzi, on receiving the "Second Mile Award" from the Kansas City District Church of the Nazarene for 25 years of service leading the Kansas City Rescue Mission! Here are Joe and family after receiving the award.

Read our latest blog entry! Jesus, the Homeless Man.

Little ones attending Vacation Bible School at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church took KCRM’s G2:10 Challenge in June!

Youth from Kingsland, Texas, serenaded KCRM while volunteering in our kitchen during lunch. Some of the group, a part of Adventures in Missions, helped prepare lunch while others braved intense heat and tall weeds to work on KCRM’s garden.  “They helped us find the cucumbers and watermelon!” Volunteer Coordinator Juliann Hansen enthused.

KCRM’s nurse, Liz Preston, noted an upswing in severe sunburns, heat exhaustion and other heat-related illnesses.  She is requesting ball caps, sun block, aloe vera gel and hydrocortisone to help treat future patients.  “A simple ball cap is a good sunburn deterrent,” Liz says.  To help meet this need, bring donations to 1520 Cherry Street, 7 a.m.-7 p.m., Monday-Saturday.

KCRM's first "Works in Progress" First Friday event of this summer was a great success! 238 attended, not counting around 50 volunteers, artists and staff combined. You helped us build TP Tower! 5500 rolls of toilet paper was collected -- more than half our goal! The tower reached almost 20 feet by the end of the evening. Thanks to ALL who pariticipated! See the photos!

Friday, June 4, KCTV 5's Iris Hermosillo broadcast live from KCRM to promote the Mission's First Friday's Art Show and our TP Tower. The station invited viewers to come down to KCRM and join in our effort to collect 10,500 rolls of toilet paper--a value of around $6,500! "KCRM uses around 10,500 rolls of TP each year," said Development Officer Julie Larocco. With the money we save, we'll be able to invest even more in the lives of the homeless and our C-COR residents." Larocco estimates the tower will be around 24-feet tall. Click here to watch.

Follow a trail of socks from Georgia to the Kansas City Rescue Mission.

KCRM Helps Meet The Need for Christmas in Excelsior Springs

Cameron Church of the Nazarene Builds a TP Teepee for KCRM!

Kansas City Rescue Mission steps up efforts to reduce, reuse, recycle to save money and resources in a tough economy

Recovery

As immediate needs are being met through our relief efforts, deeper issues of long-term recovery can be addressed. The staff of the Kansas City Rescue Mission has never been satisfied to provide only relief services. We want to see the cycles of poverty and addiction broken once and for all. And we facilitate that change by inviting men to join our C-COR, the Christian Community of Recovery at KCRM.

The C-COR is a growth-focused residential program that helps residents break personal strongholds of defeat through classes on recovery, one-on-one coaching, Bible study, life skills training, job skills training, community service and accountability. Participants begin to mature and become stable and prepare to re-enter society as productive citizens, extending the Christian Community of Recovery outside the walls of KCRM.

The philosophy of recovery and restoration at the Kansas City Rescue Mission relies not on the strength of a program, but on the building of mature and healthy relationships between community members and their peers, their growth coaches and Mission staff, a local church body, their family, society ... and most importantly, God.

Whereas programs end, leaving the client to face a future essentially alone, the Christian Community of Recovery does not end. Its purpose is to continually welcome community members into deeper and stronger relationships, better equipped to re-enter the community at large, with a network of friends and a vibrant hope for a stable and sober future.