The Mission Gate Christian Center

“Richard mathes trish mathes vp president husband and wife”

“Reviewed by corporate board prior to filing.”

“Annual statements affirming policy guidelines and understanding are signed by officers and directors. Periodic reviews are conducted to ensure policies regarding conflicts of interest are upheld. The policy describes the enforecment procedures should a violation of the policy arise.”

“The board reviews and compares annually the officers and any key employee salaries with other public ministry salaries”

“The board reviews and compares annually the officers and any key employee salaries with other public ministry salaries”

“UPON REQUEST”

“Provides in-prison services,life skills classes and residential housing and aftercare for parolees,probationers (and their children in women's facilities) and others in need of drug and alcohol recovery, enabling them to transition into society. Provides support and ministry to inmates and program graduates and to their families. Mission gate equips fathers to reunite with their children.”

“Mission gate provides services and reentry presentations in missouri prisons and jails and owns and operates aftercare programs in facilities owned in cuba and troy, missouri and in the st louis city area for federal,state,county and city former prisoners who are on probation or parole or newly released felons who are not on state supervision and for men and women with drug and alcohol addictions. Misson gate's aftercare homes serve over 350 men, women and children per year. All residents in the mission gate program receive employment placement assistance, transportation, initial food and clothing,instruction in spiritual, emotional and nutritional health, bible studies, employment soft skills, computer training, financial stewardship and other life skills such as parenting, interviewing skills and anger management. Residents without a high school diploma receive ged/hiset training and testing. Mission gate volunteers provide in-prison church services, bible studies and one-on-one counseling to an estimated 3,000 inmates per year. Mission gate works closely with institutional and field parole officers, case managers and chaplains to screen applicants for residency at mission gate. All applicants are interviewed by mission gate staff prior to approval.”

“All mission gate aftercare facilities are running at full capacity and are credentialed through mcrsp (missouri coalition of recovery support providers) which meets narr (national alliance for recovery residences) national standards. Mission gate serves 350 or more ex-offenders and children yearly. All clients in the program maintain a 95% or higher employment rate. Volunteers from 135 local churches help with maintenance and programming in the prisons and jails, aftercare and christmas angel mission. Formal mentoring and training programs are provided to volunteers and staff. Training from the department of mental health for alcohol and drug recovery, mrss (missouri recovery support specialist) and cps (certified peer specialist) is provided for staff and key volunteers. Mission gate continued to worked closely with centers for disease control, department of mental health, missouri department of corrections, missouri department of probation and parole, missouri division of family services, national alliance of recovery residences, local health providers, department of revenue, churches and local employers to provide a continuum of care for our residents onsite such as ged/hiset, satop (substance awareness traffic offender program), and financial stewardship onsite with local banks and other entities. Mission gate has been very successful in building strong realtionships with the community. Quarantine units have been maintained and available to accommodate residents. Trish mathes, president, was awarded the 2024 helen b. Madden award from prevent+ed in st. Louis for appreciation of an exceptional career devoted to the treatment of substance use disorders. Joyce fields, hannah's ranch program director and greg smith, director of planning and development, were invited to present needs to impact 100 for hannah's ranch improvements and received a grant of 10,000. Mission gate received the 35,000 crawford opioid grant for transportation of residents in crawford county benefiting hannah's ranch and fort good shepherd. Mission gate received three community reentry funding awards from the state of missouri department of corrections of 50,000 each for fort good shepherd,promises of hope and st louis city outreach to aid residents by providing housing and wrap around services including counselors, initial needs, etc. In november 2024 the lower part of fort good shepherd next to the meramec river was flooded causing damage to 14 cabins. Ten were reconstructed and 4 had to be demolished. Volunteers and a local contractor completed the construction. This was the worst flood ever at fort good shepherd. Men had to double up in other cabins on the property in order to be housed. The board of directors of mission gate voted unanimously to construct a 19 man residence on higher ground due to the flooding and additional requests for housing from correctional centers and those addicted to drugs or alcohol. The residence is scheduled for completion in 2026. 3-1/2 acres of property was purchased adjacent to the main lodge of fort good shepherd for future use.”