b'New Reasons to Exist 1920 The free flow of alcohol throughout North America promptsmissions to focus on gospelbased addiction recovery programs. The need for such programs decreases only once: during Prohibition.1923 About 40 missions in the Western Brotherhood, founded byMel Trotter of City Mission, Grand Rapids, join IUGM. Trotter goes on to start 67 new missions and mentor many of their superintendents. 1923 Engagement in IUGM improves as a program of parttime fieldsecretaries is established to recruit missions into membership. Also, the popular slogan In Union God Moves is adopted. 1925 IUGM membership grows to 124 missions in 28 states andCanada. An IUGM survey lists 550 rescue missions in the U.S. and Canada. Many will come and go over the following decades. 1930The Great Depression, plus Dust Bowl storms, cause unemployment in North America to reach 25 percent. Hundreds of thousands set out in search of work and live in their cars or in shantytowns. 1933 Long linesare common at missions at the height of the Depression. Those who stand in line all morning, hoping to be chosen fora job, stand in lines all afternoon to get a bowl of soup and a bed. \x05\x05\x05 1935 Helen MaSunday, widow of ballplayerturnedevangelist Billy Sunday, becomes the mother of rescue missions, traveling throughout North America to visit and promote rescue mission ministry. 1936 The first official headquarters for IUGM is established at WinonaLake, Indiana. It is named for longtime secretary Clemme Ellis White who provided money from her estate to construct the building. 1937First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt begins to volunteer at Central Union Mission in Washington, D.C., regularly walking with her secretary from the White House to the mission to bring gifts to the children.22 WWW.CITYGATENETWORK.ORG JULY/AUGUST 2023'