Stories

    You Can Put Hope in Hurting Hearts This Christmas!

    Across Detroit, Christmas will be a difficult time for men and women who have lost jobs, families on the brink of homelessness, isolated senior citizens, and other neighbors who are struggling to survive. Please partner with DRMM today to provide meals, help, and hope. Here’s how you can help:

    Laid Off, and No One Was Hiring.

    Since the pandemic devastated Detroit, more people than ever before are turning to DRMM desperate for a meal, safe shelter, or merely seeking God’s love and mercy—like James, who lost his job then watched helplessly as his savings dwindled to nothing.

    “How am I going to take care of my daughter?”

    Edward enjoyed his work with Detroit Public Schools, but when COVID-19 came to Detroit, schools were quickly closed, and Edward lost his job.

    The Blessing of Safe Shelter During a Pandemic

    Desperate to make changes, Kevin turned to DRMM for help overcoming drug addiction and rebuilding his life. Shortly after his arrival, though, the pandemic turned our city, state, nation, and world upside down.

    “DRMM saved me”

    The day Scott* came through the Mission doors, he was hungry and homeless. He had been aimlessly walking our city streets. He stopped in front of the Mission for a long while, agonizing about coming inside . . .

    What Detroit’s Boys and Girls Need Now . . . and in the Days Ahead

    We all have friends, family, colleagues and neighbors negatively impacted by COVID-19. Don’t we? Some are either sick, recovering, retrenched or struggling to get needed medications and food supplies in the ongoing lockdown, which simply means they need the good old empathy and compassion.