Rescue
Atlanta Union Mission provides emergency shelter to as many as 354 men, women and children at two separate campuses. Guests of the shelters are provided hot showers, clean clothes, nutritious food and a safe place to sleep. Guests also have access to social workers who make referrals to community resources for those seeking health care, addiction recovery or job help.
Emergency Shelter is provided at:
Downtown Atlanta Shelter (The Shepherd's Inn)
Howell Mill Road Campus (My Sister's House)
If you need emergency shelter, contact:
Men's Services: (404) 367-2493
Women and Children's Services: (404) 367-2465
For Downloadable Emergency Shelter Applications:
| Men's Services Emergency Services Application | (click here - Adobe Acrobat Reader Required) |
| Women and Children's Emergency Services Application | (click here - Adobe Acrobat Reader Required) |
Emergency Shelter: The First Step to a New Life
Christmas is coming. Families are decorating their homes, children are bundling up against the first cold snap and people everywhere are celebrating the holidays.
Yet, there are thousands of people spending their Christmas searching for a warm, safe place to sleep and eat.
Many find that shelter at Atlanta Union Mission.
For 70 years, Atlanta Union Mission has been providing food and shelter to the homeless in Atlanta. Opened as a shelter for people displaced by the Depression, the Mission has grown into a ministry offering emergency shelter, residential recovery programs and transitional housing at six different centers.
Yet shelter is what still draws many of the homeless to the Mission. Every night, up to 458 men, women and children receive a hot meal, a shower, clean clothes and a warm bed at the Mission’s two emergency shelters.
Jay Cory,Executive Vice-President of the Mission, says that providing shelter and food with dignity is important.
"When homeless people come to Atlanta Union Mission, they have nothing," Cory says. "By serving them with dignity and love, we hope to offer them the chance to move beyond their homelessness to independent living."
In addition to meals and beds, the Mission offers other services to shelter guests. Clean clothes and laundry services are provided to the men and women, who can also take showers nightly. Social workers make referrals to other community resources for those seeking health care, addiction recovery or job help.
Most importantly, though, the shelters give homeless men and women the chance to enter the Mission's residential recovery program.
“Many homeless people need someone to meet their basic needs of survival: food, shelter and safety,” Jay Cory says. “but our desire is for every one who comes to us to end their homelessness.”
Billy Ross is one man who came to the Mission for shelter and later entered the program.
“I came to the Mission to get out of the cold,” Billy said at his graduation from the program. “Little did I know that God would save my soul.”