Mission in the News
Leadership Longview unveils playrooms at Hiway 80 Rescue Mission shelter
Children at the Hiway 80 Rescue Mission Women’s & Children’s Shelter got their first look Tuesday afternoon at rooms designed especially for them.
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Longview mission host egg hunt
Hiway 80 Rescue Mission hosted an Easter Egg Hunt on Good Friday, March 29.
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Longview rescue mission project gives youth place of their own
Children who live with their mothers at the Hiway 80 Rescue Mission’s Women and Children’s Shelter soon will have their own spaces at the shelter.
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Survey: More women than men in area homeless shelters
The face of homelessness in Northeast Texas is changing.
For the first time, women constitute the majority of homeless residents in area emergency shelters, according to a report released Tuesday by the Northeast Texas Homeless Coalition.
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Songwriters association to hold benefit concert, art show
The Texas Christian Songwriters Association will hold a concert and art show Saturday to benefit Hiway 80 Rescue Mission.
The event will feature original works by local Christian musicians and artists.
It will be Saturday at Living Word Church, 1567 FM 1252, near Kilgore.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. The concert will be 6 to 9 p.m.
Admission is free, but donations to benefit the Mission will be accepted.
Tyler volunteers fan out to count community’s homeless
Cindy Sulser, 57, of Tyler walked down the railroad tracks underneath the Beckham overpass and into the adjacent woods Thursday afternoon, hoping to find a woman named Margaret.
Mrs. Sulser was among a group of four, escorted by a Tyler police officer, to a known homeless camp in the woods where Margaret stayed.
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Official: Area homeless population likely up
It is impossible to find a solution to homelessness if you don’t understand who is homeless and why. That’s what members of the Northeast Texas Homeless Consortium tried to find out Thursday when they conducted the annual point-in-time survey of area homeless residents.
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Residents, volunteers share holiday dinner at Longview shelter
Residents of the Hiway 80 Rescue Mission’s Women & Family Shelter got an early start to holiday festivities with a traditional dinner on Christmas Eve.
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Hiway 80 Rescue Mission seeking gifts for older kids
Hiway 80 Rescue Mission is wrapping up its toy drive today - literally and figuratively - but is still in need of toys for older kids, said Executive Director Eric Burger.
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Longview's Elf Coalition still in need of toys, volunteers.
December 18, 2012
Although Christmas is fewer than two weeks away, there's still time for East Texans to help less fortunate children - or to seek help in providing presents for their own children if they've had an unexpected financial setback.
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First freeze sends many into shelters.
December 18, 2012
The coldest air mass to hit Northeast Texas in almost two years brought temperatures into the teens and forced the homeless and many people living in substandard housing to seek shelter.
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Hiway 80 Rescue Mission provides Thanksgiving meal.
December 18, 2012
People from throughout East Texas - some homeless, others without nearby friends or family members to share the holidays with - gathered Wednesday for a Thanksgiving meal at Hiway 80 Rescue Mission.
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A special thank you to the city of Longview.
September 4, 2012
A special thank you to the city of Longview.
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Hiway 80 Rescue Mission's Beat the Heat
July 11, 2012
Hiway 80 Rescue Mission's Beat the Heat program was recently featured on Channel 19, KYTX News.
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Area missions experience increase in residents, decrease in donations
July 03, 2012
High temperatures have sent hundreds of local homeless men, women and children seeking refuge from the heat into local shelters and missions.
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Hiway 80 Rescue Mission's Beat the Heat Program
June 28, 2012
Watch a video about Hiway 80 Rescue Mission's Beat the Heat Program.
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Beat the Heat program provides free air conditioners
June 28, 2012
The family of Tewonda Culpepper got some welcome relief from the summer heat Wednesday when volunteers from the Hiway 80 Rescue Mission installed a free air conditioner...
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Beat the Heat program gets Monday launch
June 12, 2012
Greater Longview United Way will launch its newest initiative, Beat the Heat, on Monday.
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Hiway 80 Rescue Mission feeds body and soul
Sat., Aug. 13, 2011
Hiway 80 Rescue Mission Ministries has been feeding and sheltering the homeless and needy in the East Texas area since 1955.
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Beat the Heat - Longview program to give city's poor, elderly free air conditioners
Wed., Aug. 3, 2011
This summer's extreme heat has caused an increase in heat-related hospitalizations and has brought more people to the Hiway 80 Rescue Mission in the past month.
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Group delivers AC units to elderly and disabled
Wed., Aug. 3, 2011
The Hiway 80 Rescue Mission joined the Area Agency on Aging, The Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity and AMBUCS to raise funds and distribute air conditioners to the elderly and homebound in the East Texas area as part of the Mayor's Beat the Heat task force.
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Teens, Hiway 80 Rescue Mission join to help city's homeless population
Thurs. July 7, 2011
Campers from LIFT Ministries Camp joined with Hiway 80 Rescue Mission to create and distribute hot weather kits to the homeless in Longview.
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16 people graduate from Hiway 80 Rescue Mission program
Mon. June 20, 2011
Hiway 80 Rescue Mission celebrated as its latest class of New Creation Program students graduated recently. They have spent the last 9 months learning new skills, recovering from addiction and gaining job skills that will help them as they leave the Mission.
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Hiway 80 Rescue Mission recognizes volunteers
Sat., June 5, 2011
On Thursday, June 3, Hiway 80 Rescue Mission hosted two banquets to honor their volunteers.
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