Who Are We?

Good Samaritan Rescue Mission is a faith-based non-denominational homeless shelter located in the 200-block of S. Alameda Street between Six Points and City Hall in Corpus Christi, Texas.

We began in 1953 as a house church with eight beds and a soup supper for the indigent that we led to Christ. Our mission as affirmed in Luke 4:18 and Matthew 25:35-40 is to reach out to the homeless and the working poor by sharing the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and providing food, shelter, clothing, employment, medical care, spiritual counseling, and community supportive services to them.

Now in our 67th year of ministry, we have grown to have the largest shelter for the homeless in this region of the state with 213 beds. We accept no government funding because we want to be free to give a bed to every person who walks through our doors without having to qualify them for a program or be screened by a case manager.

Currently, we operate TWELVE primary ministries (with 23 sub-ministries):

• Good Samaritan Chapel

• Good Sam's Coffee House

• Good Sam's Diner

• Good Sam's Bed & Breakfast

• Good Sam's Room & Board

• Good Sam's General Store

• Good Sam's Labor Force

• Good Sam's Support Network

• Good Sam Park & Pet Care

• Good Sam Staff

• Good Sam's "Fresh Start" for Ex-Convicts

• Good Sam's Med Dorm for Disabled & Hospital Discharges

ACCEPTANCE AT GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION IS THE SAME FOR EVERYONE WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RELIGION, OR DISABILITY.

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We believe the Bible is God's written revelation to man. It is verbally inspired in every word, and absolutely inerrant in the original documents. We affirm the infallibility, sufficiency, and authority of Scripture.

We believe That there is but one Living and True God, an infinite, all-knowing Spirit, perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons – the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - each equally deserving worship and obedience.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His Virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory.

We believe that the salvation of man, who is sinful and lost, is instantaneous and accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God when the repentant sinner – enabled by the Holy Spirit – responds in faith. This salvation is wholly of God by grace on the basis of the redeeming work of Jesus Christ, the merit of His shed blood, and not on the basis of human merit or works. All the redeemed are kept by God's power and are thus secure in Christ forever.

We believe in the Spirit-filled life. As the supernatural and sovereign Agent in regeneration, the Holy Spirit baptizes all believers into the Body of Christ at the moment of salvation. The Holy Spirit also indwells, sanctifies, instructs, empowers them for service, and seals them unto the day of redemption.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved; the saved unto the resurrection of life and the unsaved unto the resurrection of damnation.

We believe that all who put their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual Body, the church, of which Christ is the head. The purpose of the church is to glorify God by building its members up in the faith, by instruction of the word, by fellowship, by keeping the ordinances, and by advancing and communicating the gospel to the entire world. The formation of the church, the Body of Christ, began on the Day of Pentecost and will be completed at the coming of Christ for His own at the rapture.

Luke 10:30 Then Jesus answered and said: "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

31 "Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

32 "Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side.

33 "But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion.

34 "So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

35 "On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, 'Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I come again, I will repay you.' 36 "So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?" 37 And he said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."

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