Who Are We?

Good Samaritan Rescue Mission is a faith-based non-denominational homeless shelter located at 902 Nueces Bay Boulevard (big blue roofs) between IH-37N and Leopard Street in Corpus Christi, Texas.

In 1953, Good Samaritan Rescue Mission, lovingly nicknamed "Good Sam" by the homeless, began in a farmhouse on Upper Broadway in Corpus Christi, Texas. In the early years, Good Sam was simply a house church with a soup kitchen and eight cots for alcoholic and destitute men. We then moved and expanded our ministry to serve seniors who were unable to live alone and had no family but were too ambulatory for a nursing facility. In 1994, we expanded once again to provide shelter for homeless women.

Since 1953, we have grown to have the largest shelter for the homeless in this region of the state with 215 beds. We accept no government funding because we want to be free to accept a person who walks through our doors without having to qualify them first for a program approved by a government grant--and to be free to share the Gospel with anyone who is open to listen.

Although the homeless have many physical needs, we have found that their greatest unmet needs are often mental, emotional, and spiritual. Most have suffered a traumatic event in their past that has caused them to "unplug" from their life as they knew it. We can provide them with a bed and a plate of food, but until they are plugged back into a sense of community and family, their progress is very unstable. It is nearly impossible for someone to want to look for a job while they are still seeking a reason just to live another day.

We are open around the clock every day of the year, and we accept new check-ins around the clock. If you are looking for a place to stay, we can give information over the phone, but we cannot check you in over the phone. You must come in person.

ACCEPTANCE AT GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION IS THE SAME FOR EVERYONE WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RELIGION, OR *DISABILITY.

*We are not a hospital or rehab facility; so because a person will share a room with three others, we have these simple requirements. People must be able to:

1. Feed themselves

2. Bathe themselves

3. Move themselves

4. Medicate themselves

5. Not require diapers

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We believe the Bible is God's written revelation to man. It is verbally inspired in every word and absolutely inerrant in the original languages. We affirm the infallibility, sufficiency, and authority of Scripture. We believe that there is but one Living and True God, an infinite, all-knowing Spirit, perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons – the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - each equally deserving worship and obedience. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His Virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory. We believe that the salvation of man, who is sinful and lost, is instantaneous and accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God when the repentant sinner – enabled by the Holy Spirit – responds in faith. This salvation is wholly of God by grace on the basis of the redeeming work of Jesus Christ, the merit of His shed blood, and not on the basis of human merit or works. All the redeemed are kept by God's power and are thus secure in Christ forever. We believe in the Spirit-filled life. As the supernatural and sovereign Agent in regeneration, the Holy Spirit baptizes all believers into the Body of Christ at the moment of salvation. The Holy Spirit also indwells, sanctifies, instructs, empowers them for service, and seals them unto the day of redemption. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved; the saved unto the resurrection of life and the unsaved unto the resurrection of damnation. We believe that all who put their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual Body, the church, of which Christ is the head. The purpose of the church is to glorify God by building its members up in the faith, by instruction of the word, by fellowship, by keeping the ordinances, and by advancing and communicating the Gospel to the entire world. The formation of the church, the Body of Christ, began on the Day of Pentecost and will be completed at the coming of Christ for His own at the rapture.

Luke 10:30 Then Jesus answered and said: "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

31 "Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

32 "Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side.

33 "But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion.

34 "So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

35 "On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, 'Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I come again, I will repay you.' 36 "So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?" 37 And he said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."

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