Before he came to the Milwaukee Rescue Mission, Roscoe’s life felt a lot like a carnival ride--“around in circles, up and down.” There were a few thrills on this ride, but the price of admission was high. Roscoe’s drug and alcohol addiction cost him his family and everything else he held dear.

 

“I was depressed,” Roscoe remembers. “I was tired of hurting people who were close to me, making promises I couldn’t fulfill, losing jobs. I was tired of being a failure.”

 

Roscoe tried several short-term rehab programs, but his periods of sobriety were also short-term. He knew he needed something else, some other way to find the stability that eluded him. He knew several men who had graduated from MRM’s long-term LifeSkills program. “They were still clean,” he says, “and I wanted that!”

 

 

In October of 2008, Roscoe arrived at MRM and enrolled in the program. “I came here for a change of life, to get closer to God.” Roscoe knew that God was the missing element in his previous treatments, and that only with His help could he find the right road--and stay on it.

 

Roscoe describes his first day at MRM as “a joy! I knew I was finally going to get the help I needed.” Since then, every day of his journey has brought him one step closer to becoming the man he wants to be.

 

“I’ve got an outlook on my future now,” he tells us. “Before coming here, I didn’t have a clue: no goals, no plans, nothing!” Today, Roscoe works in MRM’s kitchen, where he’s earned the friendship and respect of the staff. He looks forward to reconnecting with his grown children and being a grandfather to their kids.

 

Roscoe feels a deep gratitude for friends like you who support MRM. Asked what he would say to donors about how their gifts are used, he says, “They would not be disappointed! (MRM) doesn’t turn you away, even in the middle of the night. They take you in and comfort you. They find out what you need to better your life: spiritually, emotionally even financially.

 

“If someone needed help, I would tell them to go to the Milwaukee Rescue Mission!”