Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Long Beach Rescue Mission


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The result was keep. Sufficient coverage has been shown, given substantial local coverage and at least one source with greater-than-local reach. BD2412 T 01:35, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Long Beach Rescue Mission

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Local non-profit. Fails the scale criterion of WP:NONPROFIT Graywalls (talk) 22:57, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
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Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.     </li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> </ol>

<ol> <li> The article notes: "Wayne and Janet Teuerle founded the mission in 1971 with the goal of 'serving Christ and the community.' .... So the Teuerles opened the first Rescue Mission in August 1972 at 540 Broadway St. The mission has since expanded tenfold to its current location at 1335 Pacific Ave., which comprises 120 beds and the Lydia House across the street with 35 beds for women and children. ... Despite the high numbers, the mission has recently been criticized by the Homeless Organization Committee as too restrictive. The shelter imposes curfews, requires mandatory attendance to non-denominational worship services at the shelter and requires treatments for drug and alcohol abusers before meal tickets are renewed."</li> <li> The article notes: "A group of homeless people and their advocates marched in front of the Long Beach Rescue Mission Saturday to protest what they called inhumane treatment of the poor. Outside the privately funded Christian shelter at 1335 Pacific Ave., more than 40 people, carrying signs, walked the length of the block as rescue mission founder and chief executive officer Wayne Teuerle watched and took photographs. The protesters denounced such rules as a 7:30 p.m. curfew, mandatory attendance at shelter worship services, and requiring treatments for drug and alcohol problems before meal tickets are renewed."</li> <li> The article notes: "All these agencies refer the homeless to the Long Beach Rescue Mission. It is the place of last resort. But the image of soup lines and a flop house doesn't fit. The Long Beach Rescue Mission is a real joy to behold. A man dying of thirst hopes to find a mudhole over the next sand dune. The mission looms up to the needy like a full-scale technicolor oasis. Its director calls it a 'miracle.' He may be right. ... The mission is sandwiched between the Buckhorn Bar and boarded-up storefronts, cater cornered to Pete's Liquors and Spud's Tavern. ... Chapel services at the mission begin at 7:30 p.m. and end from 8 to 8:30. They are a necessary prelude to food and bunks. The men start forming up on the sidewalk around 7, small clumps of men smoking cigarettes in the classic postures of waiting. ..."</li> <li> The article notes: "The Rev. Wayne Teuerle had worked in the rescue missions of downtown Los Angeles. He knew their image: smelly places with ragged furniture, gray linoleum and pale green walls. He wanted his Long Beach Rescue Mission to look more like a well-maintained apartment building than a shelter for the homeless. The result of that ambition is readily apparent at the earth- toned, two-story mission buildings on either side of Pacific Avenue north of Anaheim Street. Both the two-story Samaritan House, a men’s 100-bed facility with a chapel and dining hall, and Lydia House, a 33-bed temporary home for women and children, were built specifically as mission buildings. Teuerle said that allowed him to incorporate many of his ideas."</li> <li> The article notes: "Forty years ago, a small mission opened its doors at 540 Broadway, serving 27 meals the first day and providing a bed for 16 homeless people. Next Thursday, the Long Beach Rescue Mission will celebrate four decades of service to the city’s poorest men, women and children, offering food, shelter and the word of God at its multi-building campus on Pacific Avenue. In that time, the Rescue Mission has helped literally thousands of people, according to executive director Jim Lewis, but the need still remains. ... Speakers Thursday will include Wayne and Janet Teuerle, who founded the Long Beach Rescue Mission. The Teuerles dedicated a quarter-century to the Rescue Mission, growing it from the small building where the World Trade Center stands today into a complex that offers housing for men (Samaritan House), women and children (Lydia House), a youth center, case management and chapel services in addition to the signature meals."</li> <li> The article notes: "A third local organization that is helping the needy this Easter is the Long Beach Rescue Mission, also located downtown on Pacific Avenue. The mission, founded in 1972 by Wayne and Janet Teuerle, helps counsel and rehabilitate the homeless so that they have the necessary skills and personal tools to be able to succeed in society and lead a healthy lifestyle. Long Beach Rescue Mission is unique to Long Beach because it is primarily ran by donations. ... The mission has two separate houses for men and women. The Lydia House, for women and children, is located across the street from the men’s. Probst said that the separation of the men and women allow people to focus on themselves and better themselves without and worries or distractions."</li> <li> The article notes: "The Rescue Mission is a national faith-based nonprofit providing food and shelter to homeless people as well as longer term recovery services. The Long Beach mission opened in 1972 with the Samaritan House for homeless men, and later opened Lydia House as a shelter for women and their children. More recently, they have begun the one-year New Life Program, which provides shelter, recovery programs and job support to those seeking a new direction in life. Just weeks after Lewis became the Long Beach mission’s third executive director, Los Angeles County sought bids to operate its Winter Homeless Shelter after the previous operator declined to renew its contract. The shelter had been based in Long Beach, but was controversial, with a battle each year about where it would be located. ... By 2010, the Long Beach Rescue Mission was in good enough financial shape to purchase a building in north Long Beach. The plan was to use the building as a warehouse most of the year, but also use it as the winter shelter."</li> <li></li> <li> The article notes: "This is the time of year that the Long Beach Rescue Mission tries to offer the city's homeless more than just the usual bed and blanket. Mission workers hope that a few special holiday meals and some small gifts will give their guests hope. During the winter months, the mission's 155 beds are filled almost every night. The mission's kitchen serves more than 400 meals a day to Long Beach's needy. Last Christmas Eve, about 800 of the 1,500 holiday meals at the mission went to children. ... The Long Beach Rescue Mission was founded in 1971 by Wayne and Janet Teuerle, who left the operation in 1995. It began in a storefront with only 40 beds."</li> <li> The article notes: "Late community activist Maria Giesey once described Jim Lewis as 'a flash of lightning.' The energetic president and CEO of the Long Beach Rescue Mission is leaving quite a legacy for his successor. In the wake of the announcement of Lewis' departure, he is being remembered by the homeless and low-income communities, along with neighborhood groups, as a man of passion and compassion. ... The Mission still offers up to 90 days of emergency shelter with case management for about 60, and bridge and transitional living programs. The Mission has a total of 136 shelter beds, not including the winter emergency shelter, and Probst said they are usually full."</li> <li> The article notes: "After anchoring the Long Beach Rescue Mission for nearly a quarter century, Wayne and Janet Teuerle are moving on. They still love the mission, they say, but times have changed and so have the Teuerles. ... The Teuerles founded the Long Beach Rescue Mission after working at similar facilities in Albuquerque and Los Angeles. They came to Long Beach because the city had no place but the jail for the 50 or so homeless men on the streets each night. The Teuerles' first Long Beach mission was a storefront with 40 beds at 540 W. Broadway. Today, the mission offers 155 beds in two facilities at Pacific Avenue and 14th Street downtown. Samaritan House shelters men, and Lydia House provides for women and children. In 23 years, they've handed out 2 million meals and 500,000 nights of shelter."</li> <li> The article notes: "Joe Levy, the retired commander of the West Division, also had dealings with Lewis on safety and homeless issues, and said Lewis made a difference in the neighborhood. Lewis forged relationships with local community groups and changed the culture around the Rescue Mission, Levy said. ... In 2003, the Mission had a budget of about $1 million. In its 2011 tax forms, the Mission listed receipts of more than $3.7 million. The staff has grown from 12 to 26 people, and engages more than 1,700 volunteers annually."</li> </ol>

There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Long Beach Rescue Mission to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 01:25, 1 June 2020 (UTC)</li></ul>
 * Another option is to merge this article into Association of Gospel Rescue Missions. Cunard (talk) 01:25, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * comment that could be feasible per WP:BRANCH. Graywalls (talk) 19:18, 1 June 2020 (UTC)


 * reply you may wish to review WP:AUD requirements in WP:NORG All/most of the above are local coverage which do not sufficiently satisfy the notability requirements for organizations. This comes down to notability similar to John & Son's furniture that is only notable in the local area. The LA Times in 1989 is one that likely meets the notability tacking standard. Now there needs to be multiple sources like this. Graywalls (talk) 05:29, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * WP:AUD says, "The source's audience must also be considered. Evidence of significant coverage by international or national, or at least regional, media is a strong indication of notability. On the other hand, attention solely from local media, or media of limited interest and circulation, is not an indication of notability; at least one regional, statewide, provincial, national, or international source is necessary." Los Angeles Times meets the "at least one regional, statewide, provincial, national, or international source is necessary" requirement. It is fine for the other sources to be local sources. Cunard (talk) 06:29, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 06:34, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge as suggested as it is verified and has one major source LA Times, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 21:09, 6 June 2020 (UTC)


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