Pacific Garden Mission
PGM doors first opened on September 15, 1877 and have been open every day since, 24/7, for over 48,700 consecutive days ? over half the age of the United States, spanning the terms of 26 US presidents. It is America?s largest continuously operating rescue mission located in a functional new facility at 1458 S. Canal Street, Chicago.
Free services include overnight shelter for men, women, and children; three nutritious daily meals prepared by licensed food handlers; clothing; and medical, dental and eye care. All free services originate from Chicago and include overnight shelter for men, women, and children; three nutritious daily meals prepared by licensed food handlers; clothing; and medical, dental and eye care. In 2010, Pacific Garden Mission provided 290,673 individual shelter days [796 daily average], served 562,208 meals [46,851 monthly average, 1562 daily average; 521 per meal], distributed 1,586,844 clothing items, and provided medical care to 5,799.
Our mission may be summarized as follows: ?To provide for the spiritual and physical needs of those to whom we minister?in the name of Jesus Christ.?
1. We believe in the Scripture of the Old and the New Testaments as
verbally inspired by God, and inerrant in the original writings, and that they
are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons; Father, Son
and Holy Spirit.
3. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born
of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true Man.
4. We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned,
and thereby incurred, not only physical death, but also a sinful nature. All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all
that believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
6. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His
ascension into Heaven, in His present life there for us, as High Priest and
Advocate.
7. We believe in ?that blessed hope?, the personal, pre-tribulation and
imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
8. We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born
again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
9. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the
everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting , conscious punishment of the lost.
