About Us

Restoring Lives Together

The Durham Rescue Mission is a faith-based, non-profit organization. Our primary goal is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and His redemptive work on the cross. The Durham Rescue Mission is achieving this goal as we minister to the homeless and addicted in central North Carolina.

The Durham Rescue Mission relies upon gifts from individuals, churches, businesses, civic groups, organizations, grants, bequests, and foundations. We operate without any government funding.

Annual Report

Click here to view our 2009 Annual Report.

Statements

Mission Statement

Our Mission is to meet through the power of Jesus Christ the needs of the whole person: spiritual, educational, emotional, physical, social, and vocational, so that those who are hurting may become fully functioning members of society.

Doctrinal Statement

1. We hold the Bible to be God's Holy Word in its entirety and inspired in every part by the Holy Spirit.
(2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21)

2. We hold that man was created in the image of God, holy and innocent: that of his own choice, he sinned, and, as a result, brought death upon all humanity.
(Romans 3:23; 5:12; 6:23)
Those who are not saved from sin are eternally separated from God.
(John 3:18)

3. We hold that Jesus Christ is God, born of a virgin, that He gave His life on the cross where He, who knew no sin, was made sin for us: that He was buried and arose again from the dead, afterward He ascended into heaven, from whence He will come again.
(John 5:39; 2 Corinthians 5:21; I Corinthians 15:4; Acts 2:9-11)

4. We hold that we are saved by grace through faith, apart from works, that the sinner who repents and personally accepts the finished work of Christ on the cross becomes a child of God, is made a new creature, and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
(Ephesians 2:8,9; John 1:12; 2 Corinthians 5:17; John 14:17)

5. We hold that Jesus Christ is coming again for His church, to establish His kingdom on earth, to judge the wicked and the lost, cast death and hell into the Lake of Fire, and dwell with the saints forever and ever.
(John 14:3; Titus 1:13; I Thessalonians 5:16, 17; Revelation 20:6; 20:14; 20:15; 22:1-5)