Calvary Rescue Mission

We had our annual visit from our friends with Oh Yeah! Missions from Oklahoma Friday night. They provided and served a great meal and led chapel. Pastor Scott Ridgeway shared a message from 2 Timothy 3 and 2 men prayed for salvation.

Our friend Josh Kelly from B’rit Hadasha Messianic Jewish Synagogue visited Calvary Rescue Mission Wednesday and shared a message from Luke 16 during chapel. At the end of the message 4 men‘s names were added to the Lamb’s Book of Life.

This week’s Prayer Letter for Calvary Rescue Mission:
Dear Prayer Warriors,

Tonight I had the privilege of preaching from 2 Thessalonians 3:6–15 to the men at Calvary Rescue Mission. The message, titled “Your Job Is Not Finished,” was a stronger word than usual—but a necessary one—delivered with love, conviction, and great hope for the transforming work God wants to do in their lives.

The Apostle Paul wrote to believers in Thessalonica who had grown idle, dependent, and spiritually stagnant. They had essentially checked out and “mailed in” the rest of their lives. Paul’s response was clear and direct: reject idleness, work diligently, and live in a way that honors Christ before a watching world.

That same challenge speaks powerfully to us today.

At Calvary Rescue Mission, we are not simply providing meals, beds, and shelter. We are laboring for full restoration. We are praying that these men rediscover purpose, responsibility, discipline, and dignity as they learn to work hard for Christ.

Our goal is never long-term dependency, but lasting life transformation.

A central truth we emphasized tonight is this: Calvary Rescue Mission is a launchpad, not a retirement home.

Thanks to your faithful generosity, the men receive warm meals, clean clothes, showers, discipleship, and counseling. But we pray these blessings become stepping stones to the next chapter God has prepared for them—steady employment, restored relationships, personal stability, faithful involvement in a local church, and ultimately becoming a blessing to others.

We closed by looking at Luke 16:10–13 about managing the gifts God has given you. Everything belongs to God, and He calls us to be faithful with what He entrusts to us. Many of the men struggle to see what they’ve been given, thinking only in financial terms. Yet God has given each of them an able body, unique gifts, and skill sets. They too are stewards and managers of what the Lord has placed in their hands. My challenge to them tonight was: Are you managing the gifts God has entrusted to you well?

Your giving, serving, praying, cooking, mentoring, and volunteering are beautiful acts of stewardship that God is using in big ways.

Please continue to pray specifically for:

Men to reject passivity and embrace responsibility
Open doors for employment and restored family relationships
Spiritual growth and genuine repentance
Wisdom for our staff as we balance compassion with accountability
Endurance and encouragement for our faithful volunteers

Many of these men have known deep hopelessness. Yet we believe the Gospel changes people. We believe Christ restores dignity. And we believe no man’s story is over as long as God is still at work in him.

Thank you for standing with us. Thank you for loving these men enough to serve them faithfully and point them toward something far greater than survival—a transformed life in Jesus Christ, where they reject idleness and work hard to the glory of God.

Grace and peace,

Tim Schlum

Assistant Director, Calvary Rescue Mission

Please continue to join us in prayer for our many needs as well as our praises, including:

Please donate boxer briefs (medium - extra large)
Please donate razors (twin blades)
Please donate small pants (30 inch - 34 inch)
Please donate Purell hand sanitizer

As the Lord expands our ministry to homeless men in our city, would you consider partnering with Calvary Rescue Mission through a financial gift if you are not already supporting us?

Please pray for more local churches to get involved by 'owning a night’ at Calvary Rescue Mission. This involves providing the meal, serving the meal, and leading a chapel service. Consider asking your church leadership if they would get involved at Calvary Rescue Mission (if they aren’t already).

Anyone wishing to make a donation may do so in any of several ways:

Secure online donations by going to our Calvary Rescue Mission website. (https://calvaryrescue.org/)

We are now setup to receive stock donations, so please email: [email protected], if you’re interested in donating any stocks

Mail checks to: Calvary Rescue Mission, 960 S. Third St, Memphis, TN 38106;

Designate Calvary Rescue Mission as your charity of choice on your Kroger card (https://www.kroger.com/i/community/community-rewards) so that a portion of their corporate giving will come to us.