12/25/2025
Merry Christmas from Union Rescue Mission 🎄
As we celebrate Christmas today, we find ourselves reflecting not just on the last twelve days, but on an entire year filled with compassion, resilience, and hope.
Over the past twelve days, we’ve shared glimpses of what happens inside Union Rescue Mission. Quiet moments of rest. Warm meals around shared tables. Children laughing and creating. Men choosing recovery. Women rebuilding their lives. Volunteers serving with joy. Faith lived out in practical, everyday ways.
This Christmas season, because of an incredible community, every man, woman, and child in our programs received gifts. Through our toy closet, more than 100 children in the community were able to experience the joy of Christmas morning. Our homes were filled with the sounds of laughter, conversation, and celebration through shared meals, card making, ornament crafting, bonfires, gift exchanges, parties, and so many meaningful moments in between.
And beyond the Christmas season, this year has been marked by steady, faithful support. Support that kept the lights on, the doors open, the meals coming, and the programs moving forward. Support that reminded people who have experienced homelessness, addiction, trauma, and loss that they are not forgotten.
At the heart of all of this is the reason we celebrate today. Christmas is the reminder that hope came near. That love showed up. That light entered the darkness and was not overcome. We are grateful to be a place where that love is expressed through safe shelter, nourishing food, recovery, community, and faith.
To every donor, volunteer, church, partner, and friend who walked alongside us this year, thank you. Your generosity made space for healing, dignity, and new beginnings. You are part of every story of transformation that unfolded within these walls.
From all of us at Union Rescue Mission, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a hopeful New Year. May you carry the same love, generosity, and compassion into the year ahead.
