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Begun 1954 by the Mennonite Board of Missions
Founding and course: South Bend's rescue mission was begun in 1954 by the Mennonite Board of Missions of the Mennonite Church — the founding is carried in the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online's article on rescue missions, written in 1959 with a 1990 update, the near-contemporary record. By 1987 the mission was governed by a community board that included Mennonites — the standard rescue-mission passage from denominational founding to community governance, documented here at its dates. The institution continues as Hope Ministries, legal name Rescue Incorporated, at 432 South Lafayette Boulevard, running a men's emergency shelter and residential recovery programs. Its place in the shelter system stands beside the Center for the Homeless and St. Margaret's House below; those entries are theirs, and this one is the mission's.
Sources:
- Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, "Rescue Missions" (1959; updated 1990) — the Hope Rescue Mission in South Bend begun by the Mennonite Board of Missions in 1954; the community board including Mennonites by 1987.
- Hope Ministries (Rescue Incorporated), organizational record — the present name, the Lafayette Boulevard address, the men's shelter and residential programs.