2021 Love Your Neighbor Virtual Gala
October 09, 2021 7:00 pm - October 11, 2021 12:00 pm
From the Comfort of Your Home
Gather your family, friends, and colleagues to celebrate changed lives at Open Door Mission.
Join us LIVE on Saturday, October 9th at 7:00 p.m.
Watch on Facebook, YouTube, or at www.opendoormission.org.
The live and silent auctions will close on Monday, October 11, 2021 at 12 Noon, Central Time. Keep the bids coming!
This fun evening, from the comfort of your home, includes inspiring stories of HOPE
and opportunities to Show Some Love to men, women, and children
experiencing homelessness and poverty.
Browse & Bid on Auction Items
VIEW ITEMSRegister for Door Prizes
Gala Sponsorshp Opportunities
$250000 Goal
$172211
Total Raised
Changing Lives Daily
Open Door Mission is a Gospel Rescue Mission founded in 1954 committed to breaking the cycle of homelessness and poverty. Each day, Open Door Mission's campus offers 917 safe, shelter beds to people experiencing homelessness, serves over 4,747 nutritious meals to feed the hungry, and provides homeless preventive resources to more than 1,000 people living in poverty to empower them to remain in their own homes.
Our Impact in 2020:
At Open Door Mission, we believe in coming alongside people experiencing homelessness and poverty, empathizing with their situation, and speaking truth into their lives: that they are worthy, valued, and created in the image of God. It's our passion, our calling. And we've been doing it, thanks to partners like you, since 1954.
· Provided 152,323 nights of safe shelter.
· Served 1.27 million nutritious meals to feed the hungry.
· Empowered 23,866 individuals to remain in their own homes and
preventing homelessness.
· Celebrated 55 graduates from life-changing programs.
· Diverted 233 patients experiencing homelessness from hospital
emergency room visits.
· Cared for 52 COVID-positive guests and moved 33 medically fragile
people, experiencing homelessness, into assisted living facilities.
· Supplied rental assistance for 557 families, diverting them from experiencing homelessness.
· Changed lives along with 5,991 volunteers giving 26,059 hours of their valuable time.