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Mission Statement

Guiding Light Mission exists to provide a healing community that allows broken men to discover a new life in Christ. We provide food and shelter while equipping our clients with social, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual skills, thereby preparing them to serve.


Highlights from 2007

  • 160 program participants benefited from our Spiritual Truth and Recovery Training Program (START), a drug and alcohol rehabilitation and workforce readiness program. Of these participants 83 professed Christ as Lord.
  • 250,000 free meals were served.
  • 29,200 overnight stays in our patron dorms.
  • 3,650 daytime hours open this past year as warm and inviting alternative to walking the streets.
  • 18 of our clients found permanent employment.
  • Responded to over 13,471 emergency calls for food.
  • Donated nearly 100 tons of food to other local charities.
  • Thousands of hours spent by volunteers serving food, performing maintenance, providing office support, assisting in special events, and aiding in special projects.

Statement of Faith

We believe in God, the Father almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth.
We believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord;
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
He descended to hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand
of God the Father almighty.
From there he will come to judge the living and dead.
We believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.


Snapshot of Local Homelessness

  • Nearly 65 percent of the Heartside neighborhood lives at an income of $15,000 or less each year. 
  • Many of the permanent residents of Heartside (recent estimates are 70 percent) live with some form of mental illness.
  • 3,000 people  will find themselves homeless at one point during a 12 month time period in Kent County. 
  • On any given night there are between 700 – 800 people in the area sleeping in emergency shelters of transitional housing. 


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