Goodwill Rescue Mission

Our Mission

Goodwill Rescue Mission offers help and hope to North Jersey’s urban poor and dispirited.

•	For mind and body: food, clothing, shelter, training and teaching.
•	For soul and spirit: the life-changing message of God’s love revealed in Jesus Christ.

Special Project

Hope Totes
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Winning the War – Dorothy Tyler

Dorothy Tyler’s 42 years of life have been a battle. Since becoming homeless at the tender age of 19, she’s suffered her share of losses. But at Goodwill Rescue Mission, Dorothy has finally begun to win some wonderful victories.

"My eyes are continually toward the LORD, for He will pluck my feet out of the net."

— Psalm 25:15

Dorothy’s war began when she dropped out of school her senior year of high school and landed on the streets, homeless and penniless.

Dorothy (left) with Veronice Horne, GRM volunteer coordinator and founder of In the Hands of a Woman.

“I was in and out of shelters,” she remembers. “It was
to the point, I was eating out of garbage cans. I was already a drinker, but I had to drink more so as not to think about where I was at.”

Her first child was born when she was a teen, and four more children followed quickly after. Through the years, the family bounced from home to home, living in low-rent apartments, with friends and in shelters. One of Dorothy’s boyfriends beat her so badly, she still has a metal plate holding her cheekbone together.

Unfortunately, things got even worse when Dorothy discovered cocaine. “I was smoking cocaine, then to come down out of the clouds, I would do dope,” she recounts. Her children were taken away, and she hasn’t seen them for three years.

But when Dorothy came to GRM for a meal, everything changed. Since getting involved with our In the Hands of a Woman ministry, she’s quit using drugs, rededicated her life to Christ and gotten in touch with her children.

“I love Goodwill,” Dorothy beams. “You get help here; you get love here.”

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