Association of Gospel Rescue Missions is an IRFA member.

Do you know a friend, family member, or a complete stranger who is hungry, without a home, being abused, struggling with an addiction, or in crisis? If this is a dire emergency, please call 9-1-1 or social services in your local community. Otherwise, we encourage you to contact the helpful staff at an AGRM-member rescue mission.

Use our searchable map directory to find a mission in your area. Or you can search by name, location, and/or type of program to:

• Identify a mission by location.
• Locate the phone number, website, and/or mission staff contact information.
• Find the hours of operation.
• Learn what services are available.

Celebrating 100 years in 2013, AGRM is North America’s oldest and largest network of independent crisis shelters and rehabilitation centers, offering radical hospitality in the name of Jesus. With approximately 275 member missions, AGRM exists to proclaim the passion of Jesus toward the hungry, homeless, abused, and addicted, and to accelerate quality and effectiveness in member missions. Every year, AGRM members use 300,000 volunteers and 10,000 full-time staff to serve approximately 50 million meals, provide more than 20 million nights of lodging, distribute some 30 million pieces of clothing, graduate upwards of 20,000 people from addiction-recovery programs, and provide many additional valuable services. For more information, visit www.agrm.org or call (800) 4RESCUE.

While rescue is in the name of the association, the followers of Jesus running these missions see that aspect as just the beginning. In total, they are about:

Rescue — Pulling people to safety from adverse conditions, and from choices and habits that lead to damaged health and death

Redemption — Presenting people with a gospel that is about life transformation in Jesus, and the reclamation of His creation

Rehabilitation — Helping people break the bonds of addiction and desperate behavior, and experience a life of healing and wholeness

Re-assimilation — Preparing people to dwell in community, and to have meaningful roles that lead to stability and missional living

In all of this, AGRM is there to tell and re-tell the story to the church and the public at large, pointing out the need for laborers, resources, prayer, and a repentant attitude toward the poor. The association’s role is also to connect its members with current news, creative ideas, and cost-saving programs in order to expedite the continual movement of their ministries to higher levels of professionalism in order to achieve greater outcomes.

Mission Statement

AGRM exists to proclaim the passion of Jesus toward the hungry, homeless, abused, and addicted; and to accelerate quality and effectiveness in member missions.

With an eye on the future, AGRM also recognizes the contagious fervor in younger followers of Jesus. They come from dissimilar backgrounds but collectively feel a renewed spiritually mandate for social responsibility regarding “the least of these,” as described in Matthew 25. AGRM believes that their perspectives are valid, and that their energy, wedded with the wisdom of those more experienced, could start a revolution of compassion that would fully awaken the church to action in this critical area of personal conviction.

Vision Statement

AGRM will foster and feed a movement of diverse, energetic disciples who will see the practice of hospitality to the destitute as both a catalyst for life transformation inJesus and a fundamental expression of their Christian faith, thus propelling the church into the lead role in society’s quest to alleviate homelessness.