Highway 80 Rescue Mission, Gateway to Hope Enter Agreement

TYLER — Hiway 80 Rescue Mission Ministries and the board of directors for Gateway to Hope have joined forces to allow the rescue mission to operate the Gateway to Hope facility for a six-month time period. Gateway to Hope, a Tyler resource facility for the homeless, is temporarily closed. According to a message on its website, “Right now, we are in the process of streamlining our community services to better serve our guest(s) and community as a whole.” Hiway 80 Rescue Mission is based in Longview and has an outreach office in Tyler.

According to a news release from the rescue mission, “We are working together to establish the particulars of this arrangement. This process involves determining the date that Gateway to Hope will reopen to provide services for the local homeless population.” Rev. Eric Burger, Executive Director for Hiway 80 Rescue Mission, says, “We understand that Gateway to Hope provides essential help to homeless men and women in the Tyler community. Hiway 80 Rescue Mission wants to continue and enhance those assistance efforts. We are in the process of working out the details of this agreement. We will announce this information to the Tyler community as soon as our course of action is finalized.”

Hiway 80 Rescue Mission Ministries has been serving the homeless and the needy in East Texas since 1955. The Mission provides rehabilitation for homeless men, women and children in crisis through the Men’s Shelter and Women & Families Shelter in Longview and the Tyler Outreach Office, according to the news release. The mission is a non-denominational, Christian, social services organization.