AGRM missions provide for millions much-needed help and hope. Consider these facts:

• Approximately 13 percent of America’s sheltered homeless stay at an AGRM-member ministry every night.
• Intact families—father, mother, and child(ren)—make up one quarter of the families served at AGRM-member missions.
• One-fifth of the people served at AGRM-member missions were victims of physical violence while homeless in the previous 12 months.
• Four out of five people coming to AGRM-member missions for assistance prefer to receive services from an agency with a spiritual component.
• If combined, AGRM-member missions would be among the top 10 charities in America, based on cash donations received.

While rescue is in the name of the association, the followers of Jesus running these missions see that aspect as just the beginning. In total, they are about:

• Rescue: Pulling people to safety from adverse conditions, and from choices and habits that lead to damage and death  
• Redemption: Presenting people with a gospel that is about life transformation in Jesus, and the reclamation of His creation
• Rehabilitation: Helping people break the bonds of addiction and desperate behavior, and experience healing and wholeness  
• Re-assimilation: Preparing people to dwell in community, and to have meaningful roles that lead to stability and missional living