Helping in Time of Need . . .

Lives are changed at the Fairbanks Rescue Mission everyday. By providing the basic needs in life: food, shelter, and clothing, Interior Alaska's needy, homeless, and transient population have shelter and assistance ready and waiting for them. These are men and women just like you and I, with families and children like ours. Somewhere, somehow, hard times came and they needed a place to go for a helping hand. The Mission tries to meet both spiritual and physical needs in helping individuals towards restoration to a correct relationship with God and a productive relationship within our society.

In a typical year, the Fairbanks Rescue Mission serves 65,500 meals, provides over 16,000 beds and gives out over 60,000 articles of clothing and household goods. Zion's donations are used to buy food, help pay for utilities (which exceed $3,000 monthly), help clothe residents and buy supplies that are needed to run the mission. The Rescue Mission receives no city, state or government funding; all their help comes from people who send in monthly donations and from churches like Zion.

For more information, go to the Fairbanks Rescue webpage.