Lives Changed. Futures Restored.
Our Path To Life Recovery
Since 2001, The Path has walked alongside homeless individuals and families in Citrus and Marion Counties, providing more than shelter—offering time, structure, and Christ-centered guidance to help each client achieve stability, self-sufficiency, and a successful return to community life.
About Our Mission
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide a Christian living environment that allows true rehabilitation. To allow long term stays for life changing biblical teachings to take effect. To encourage the work ethic for those without a home.
Our Vision
To bring the good news and teaching of Jesus Christ to those in need by means of example according to Matthew 25:35, "For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, for I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited Me in, I needed clothes and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you came to visit Me."
More Than a Shelter
Everything we do follows a path forward. The journey begins with rescue from poverty and addictions, continues through healing and life recovery, and leads to lives restored—rooted in faith, strengthened by stability, and established with hope and purpose.
Rescue
A safe place for single adults, parents and families with their children-- when life falls apart.
Recovery
A structured, year-long program helps adults overcome barriers to healthy, independent living through Christian mentoring, accountability, life-skills training, addiction recovery, counseling, and "work therapy." Men and women build health, responsibility and practical skills through meaningful assignments at The Path’s farm, thrift store, kitchen, laundry, grounds, and other activities. Parents and children can stay together and recover as a family.
Restoration
Individuals and families are equipped for a successful transition into community life through job training, rebuilding healthy support systems, practicing financial responsibility, and obtaining employment or eligible benefits.
What We Believe
At The Path, we refer to ourselves as a "GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION."
We are compelled foremost by Jesus' instructions to actively care for those in need and to introduce them to the life-transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ. Providing a protective refuge from fatigue and failure are critical first steps of a slow journey leading to new desires, choices, and direction in life.
We wish to avoid the temptation to argue our commission. We will keep the spirit of Christ's love in accomplishing what God has told us to do. We seek the Holy Spirit's guidance on how to distribute all of God's assets. We will serve the public with humility, honesty and integrity.
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe in the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His atoning death on the cross, and His bodily resurrection from the grave.
We believe that Jesus Christ ascended to the right hand of the Father, now rules as Head of His Body, the Church, and will personally return in power and glory.
We believe that man in his natural state is lost and thus alienated from God and that salvation through personal faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ is essential.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling a Christian is made spiritually alive and enabled to live a Godly life.
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, they who are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they who are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
We believe in the spiritual unity of the believers in Christ.
A gospel rescue mission like The Path prepares people to have meaningful roles leading to stability and purposeful living in our communities. During their stay men, women and their children are provided a compassionate, safe and structured environment while the proper long-term needs are addressed.
Making a Impact Since 2001
For more than two decades, The Path has served Citrus and Marion Counties as a local, privately funded nonprofit. This sustainability reflects our steadfast commitment to integrity, accountability, and lasting transformation. Explore our Impact & Financials for the scope and depth of our work.
25+
Years serving the community
15+
Acres of working farm
100%
Privately funded at present
4,000+
Men, women, and children served by The Path's rescue mission since 2001.
Our History
A Local Story with Far-Reaching Impact
Located in rural Citrus County, Florida, (approximately 90 miles north of Tampa), The Path has been in operation since 2001 and sheltered over 4,000 homeless or displaced men, women, and children.
In 2019, after completing a four-year capital campaign, The Path finished major renovations on a motel complex in Beverly Hills, Florida, and moved sheltering, programs, and operations there. This campus is ideally suited to shelter more women with children, single men with their children and intact families.
Our COMMITTED Team
Meet Our Leadership
The people leading The Path bring life experience, accountability, transparency, and genuine care to every decision.
We're Training the Next Generation of Rescue Mission Leaders Through Hands-On Experience
The Path Training Program equips ministry leaders and volunteers with the hands-on tools to launch or strengthen a Christ-centered rescue mission. Learn valuable hands-on skills from a program with more than two decades of experience serving people in crisis.
