New York Adult Entertainment: Bridgeport Rescue Mission helps the downtrodden with ‘compassionate…
Indeed, Close is one of the mission’s biggest advocates. His hope is that the mission might even expand its reach into the Danbury area, not to supplant the services now provided but to expand and help coordinate the delivery so that more of the chronically and transient homeless can be served and moved off the streets.
New Milford Shelter Coalition president Patrick Farquharson said he is impressed with what he has learned about the mission and its success.
“This type of mission works,” Farquharson said.
Though rooted in Christian principles, the mission does not discriminate against those who don’t share its beliefs. Rather, mission guests witnesses God’s love in the “compassionate actions” of its staff and volunteers, some of whom were once homeless, Casey said.
The mission’s executive director, the Rev. Terry Wilcox, said its work started 16 years ago with the Rev. Jim Watson, who served sandwiches out of his station wagon to prostitutes and gangs in some of Bridgeport’s most dangerous areas.