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New Beach Properties!
I just listed 2 new waterfront properties on “The World’s Most Beautiful Beaches” Panama City Beach, Florida. The awesome Majestic Towers Condo is gulf front, and the 3 story home is on South Lagoon…Both properties are priced well below market! Call me today for details!
Springfield Florida – What are you thinking?
Still pains my soul to think that human beings would be so adament about not wanting to help fellow human beings! Your excuses are just that excuses! You Board Members need to man up and do the right thing, instead of hiding out! Whatever the outcome, Bethel Village will go on, and God will have his way!
Panama City Rescue Mission – 40 years
On behalf of our Board of Directors, I thank you for your continued support and prayers for this ministry. This year marks 40 years of your Rescue Mission.
In all those long years, the Mission has stayed true to its purpose of sharing Gods love to the least of those in our community.We have, as well, stayed to our convictions of not pursuing or receiving any direct support from tax payers at any level City, State or Federal.
As we approach the next decade of reaching the least, the last and the lost in our area, there are many opportunities for the Lord to show He remains faithful. We continue to see men and women come to faith in Jesus and dozens of willing disciples join our addiction recovery ministry as students of His word. The success is evidenced by one story below, and more on our Web site.
This last year of negative assault on your Rescue Mission has greatly affected financial support. City and DIB leaders contracted an expert on homelessness, Robert Marbut, to confirm their accusations. However, Dr. Marbut reversed their assumptions by stating the Rescue Mission is doing a fantastic job with very little other help. He also stated that if the City were looking to improve help for the overwhelming numbers of people becoming homeless, they should seek the leadership of the Rescue Mission.
We are confident in God to restore us from the damages done.
He will do this, we believe, in part by your support and pledge for the next year. Please prayerfully consider a special gift or pledge right now. You can also mail your support to P.O. Box 2359, Panama City, Fl 32402.
Please also consider purchasing a ticket to attend our 40th Anniversary Celebration to hear more stories of these last years.Click here for more information. As always, I would love to offer you a personal tour of the Mission, please call 481-1093 to schedule it.
Our scripture of hope for this milestone 40th occasion is Deut 2:7 These forty years the Lord your God has been with you and you have lacked nothing.We have lacked nothing for 40 years. Your support going into the next 40 years would have great affect on our vital community service and would be greatly appreciated.
Respectfully yours,
Rev. Billy Fox
Executive Director
Faith at the Beach
My new friend Amy Cooper has started a new blog, new website and new life. Her blog, entitled Faith at the Beach is her story of transformation, renewal and hope. Please take a moment and go to her site and see for yourself!
We are starting a new support group for families of addicts, addicts in recovery, families of addicts in recovery, etc. Our core group is a faith based group of individuals who care deeply about this issue and want to reach out to support where there is no support. Watch for times and dates to be posted!
“The mission of this FAITH-based organization is to promote life long sobriety from the disease of addiction through acknowledgement that FAITH is the key to one’s success”
Check it out at www.faithatthebeach.com
God Bless!
Are we on the mend?
Every time I turn around, someone is asking me when the market around here is going to change…and my answer almost always is “I HAVE NO IDEA” I wish I did. The folks who know a lot more than I do, seem to think that we are on the mend, as an economy and as a RE market. I personally have not seen it in my circle. I am hopeful, prayerful, but somewhat skeptical! Most of the recent research maintains that people are spending more money these days on luxury items, therefore the economy must be getting better. That seems logical to me. These people who have money like this just don’t live in our area. Hopefully, they will decide to come on down and share the wealth! Buy a house, buy a car, take a vacation….All of these things will enhance our community, and make me a believer!
Bethal Village – Panama City Florida
I look at these beautiful faces and I see hope for the future and hurt from their past. I learn their names, they become real to me. I talk to them, they make me thankful for all of my God given blessings…..I am talking about my beautiful lady friends from the Panama City Rescue Mission’s Bethel House.
They come from all walks of life, educated – uneducated, some with familes and homes and some homeless, some have been incarcerated and some have not. All of them are reaching out to God for help with their addictions. They are real people with real problems and they need a helping hand, with no judgement. Who among us is without sin? Not me!
When you see a life changed and God Almighty at work in someone’s life, it hits you right in the heart! You see women who were scared, angry, bitter and living in a constant fog. They never make eye contact with you because of their shame. God gets in their lives and hearts and all of that changes. They are excited for their future. They are thankful for the chance to change. They look at you and you see so much more than an addict. You see this precious woman fighting the good fight and learning that she is special and has worth! You see these beautiful women evolve in to the lovely creatures God had intended them to be. Our God is an awesome God and he can heal and mend anyone!
My prayer for today and everyday is that this wonderful organization can keep on keeping on! They (The Mission) need your help, they need your prayers. Please stand with them and pray for them as they help to lead the souls to Christ!
Rescue Mission Does GOOD Works!
00 Homeless Kids Get an Early Christmas
Posted: 9:45 PM Nov 30, 2011 Reporter: Kavontae Smalls Email Address: kavontae.smalls@wjhg.com
The Rescue Mission sponsored an event called “Lunch with Santa” for dozens of homeless children in Bay County. It allows kids less fortunate the chance to forget about their problems and simply, be a kid. It only comes once a year, where people of all ages, are filled, with holiday cheer.
Thanks to the Panama City Rescue Mission and Innovations Credit Union, one hundred kids had the opportunity, to attend a special luncheon.
The event allows children less fortunate a chance, to experience Christmas
at more than just a glance.
When they got the chance to meet Santa, he asked if they’ve been naughty or nice.
If they were the latter, they were in for quite a surprise.
Santa’s elves prepared sacks filled with toys, for a room full of excited girls and boys.
Cars, Trucks, Barbies and games filled the tables, and attached to the hip, were plenty of kids, extremely grateful.
Today was surely a day none of these lucky children would dare miss, the chance to tell everyone watching, “Merry Christmas” said the group of children.
The Panama City Rescue Mission, Innovations Credit Union and all the cheery kids would like to share a lasting thought before this is done, and who better to say it than Santa Clause himself, “Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas, everyone,” said Santa Clause.
When the kids finished their Lunch with Santa, they were all taken on a tour of the Festival of Trees.
Rescue Mission News
Rescue Mission can peacefully co-exist with downtown
By HENRY HAZARD
PANAMA CITY
The Panama City Rescue Mission is a Christian organization dedicated to reaching the most needy citizens for Christ. Many of these people are in bondage because of addictions, poor choices and circumstances. At the mission they learn how Jesus can give them a new start and the internal power to change their lives. Many choose to follow Christ.
As they go through the mission’s long-term program, they learn how to budget, how to manage their time, how to live a profitable and fulfilling life. Most of all, they learn how to live for Jesus every day. These people are restored to society as good and contributing citizens.
Through the generosity of this community, the Rescue Mission also feeds approximately 600 people each day, provides temporary housing for some and helps people in crisis with clothes, furniture and other items.
Many crimes have NOT been committed in this community because needy people did not have to steal in order to eat. They can go to the Rescue Mission for food. This is accomplished without one dime from the federal, state or local governments.
The Panama City Rescue Mission was started in 1972 in a vacant hotel on Beach Drive. After several years the Downtown Improvement Board decided it didn’t want the Rescue Mission there. It had other plans for the property. After months of pressure from the city, the Rescue Mission moved to its current location. The city fathers were pleased. Again, through the generosity of the community, the Rescue Mission built a new facility and purchased additional property along Allen Avenue for future growth and ministries.
Now the city fathers are coveting our property again, this time in conjunction with the possibility of a new federal courthouse across the street. This is the real issue. If the city wanted to clear downtown of the transients and panhandlers, it could enforce its own ordinances (Article I, Section 18-1, (a), (2), (3), and (6); Article III, Division l, Section 16-58 and Section 16-61; Article III, Division 4, Section 16-143; and possibly Article II, Division l, Section 18-19).
Another avenue the city could pursue to remove transients and panhandlers from downtown is to build its own feeding and housing station at the industrial park (at taxpayer expense) and transport the people there. In my opinion it would not be a rescue mission because, as a government entity, it could not tell them how Jesus can change their lives. He is the reason many people are being released from their addictions and destructive lifestyles at the Rescue Mission.
The mayor of Panama City has stated that the Rescue Mission will not hold the city hostage (because the executive director of the Rescue Mission stated that it would take $10 million to move the mission and its ministries elsewhere). Mayor, we are not holding the city hostage. We are trying to do the ministry that God has called us to do to the best of our ability.
Please leave us alone! Leave our property alone! Assuming the federal courthouse is even built in Panama City, we can co-exist with it where we are. You can do your job of removing transients from the downtown area while we do ours of transforming lives through Jesus Christ and restoring people to a worthwhile lifestyle.