Friday webcast to build support, awareness for America's homeless

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Contact: Nicole Daniels
Office: 719.266.8300 x103
Cell: 616.260.6097

To promote National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week, the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions (AGRM) is partnering with i58:10 Media to produce the Hope to the Hungry webcast Nov. 19.

Live from Union Gospel Mission (Portland, Ore.), the 12-hour webcast will feature inspirational stories of transformed lives, and interviews with rescue mission workers and supporters. AGRM business partner i58:10 Media is coordinating and testing the webcast.

“The goal is to garner awareness and raise funds to help feed, shelter and care for those who are homeless and needy in communities across America,” said AGRM President John Ashmen.

During the webcast, several individuals will testify to the practical help and spiritual hope they encountered at rescue missions. Some time will also be devoted to Christian music artists Tenth Avenue North, Addison Road, Matt Maher, and Echoing Angels; and speakers including Ashmen and Jan Marshall, director of women’s ministries at Portland Rescue Mission in Oregon.

Several AGRM missions are promoting it through their social media networks, local donors and communities. If this year’s online event is successful, AGRM will plan a 2011 webcast to benefit member missions that choose to participate.

For more information about the webcast, visit www.hopetothehungry.org

Founded in 1906, Colorado Springs-based Citygate Network is North America’s oldest and largest network of independent crisis shelters and rehabilitation centers, offering radical hospitality in the name of Jesus. With more than 300 member ministries, Citygate Network exists to provide the vision, education, training, resources, guidance, representation, and nexus for missions and kindred ministries that are moving people in destitute conditions or desperate situations from human suffering to human flourishing through the process of gospel-powered life transformation. For more information, visit www.citygatenetwork.org or call (719) 266-8300.