Download your Summer Prayer Guide! In the wake of COVID-19, our hurting neighbors experiencing homelessness need your prayers now more than ever. They also need meals, shelter, and hygiene items, as well as any special assistance required in these uncertain times. Your prayers and support will...
Dear friends, I am burdened and heavy hearted by the deep pain plaguing our nation. I grieve and fervently pray for restoration, reconciliation, and lasting change. Our country—our own community—aches and groans. Violence, racism, and injustice against fellow Image-bearers grieve God, and grieve us. Our Wheeler family...
Wheeler Mission's COVID-19 Precautions Dear friend, We recently sent a press release regarding Wheeler Mission's precautions surrounding the current COVID-19 outbreak. You may read it in full below. We thank you for your support during this time. Standing together for the good of our neighbors, Rick Alvis President/CEO Wheeler Mission actively...
Dear friend, 2019 was a year of "making room" at Wheeler Mission. More and more of our neighbors experiencing homelessness and addiction depend on us for shelter, meals, addiction recovery, and other life-changing services. And thanks to YOU, we were able to make room to serve...
Your donations make a difference! Cleaning out your closets? Redecorating your home? Itching to make a difference? Now could be the perfect time to meet a need at Wheeler Mission! Thanks to the generosity of our community, we’re able to provide our guests with donated items like...
How pallets came to be. Wheeler Mission Pallets & Industry is the social enterprise for Hebron, our addiction recovery program for men. With operations housed at our Hunt Training Center (just north of Bloomington), the enterprise was formed to provide work therapy for program participants and...
In Part 2 of our blog series on Wheeler Mission’s social enterprises, we'll discuss Restored Creations! To directly shop and support this enterprise, go here. What is Restored Creations? Restored Creations is the candle making social enterprise at our Center for Women & Children (CWC). Assisted by...
This piece (Part 1 in a series on Wheeler's social enterprise) is guest authored by Charlene Moutray, former guest and current Wheeler Mission staff member. Colossians 3:23-24 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will...
This piece was guest authored by O'Nealya Gronstal, Director of Community Engagement at Wheeler Mission. It started as a post in my neighborhood’s private Facebook group. I was sharing with my neighbors a need we had at Wheeler, and I ended the post with what has become...
A new year, a new decade. "We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure." (Hebrews 6:19a) Dear friends, We’ve just entered a new year, a new decade. For me, it’s the perfect time to reflect on what’s been done and what’s to come. God...