As someone who was living at the mission, assisting with daily operations, and able to see firsthand, the inner workings of this mission, I feel compelled to notify people interested in donating to use caution. On the men's side, donations are likely to be pawned, sold on the street, hoarded by the 20 to 30 residents, or traded for drugs as substance runs rampant inside and around the facility. On the women's side, much of the same, however the leadership would just assume throw away the donations than give them to overnight guests who need them. I would seriously advise donating to individual men, women and children and not giving them to the facility.
There are a few people working at Trinity on staff who are sincere, caring, and doing what they can to help people within a broken model where the leadership has adopted a philosophy of treating humans with indignity disguised as tough love to drive people toward seeking solutions for their homelessness dilemma that really are thinly veiled abuses of power, profiteering off misery with thousands of dollars mismanaged or outright stolen donations of clothing, food, hygiene products, and electronics never reaching the individuals that need them most.
Somehow, in spite of all of this nonsense, the word of God seeps it's way through all the corruption, and some people lives are changed. But unfortunately it seems to be necessary to overcome this toxic environment as a hindrance toward sharing the gospel with overnight guests and residents and not as an outflow of a ministry, a very significant missed opportunity.
This place could impact so many lives in positive ways, perhaps it once did. But instead its ride with pettiness, envy, false accusations, slander, management that has no clue what goes on or just doesn't care, happy to collect a paycheck for empty claims of promised prayer in place of actions to resolve conflicts like food poisoning due to improper food handling experience or oversight, elderly abuse that occurs from recovering addicts being used as unpaid staff members with decision making authority that has the potential to cause severe hardship or even life-threatening scenarios for individuals with personal vendettas that would have no issue choosing their own ego over the safety and welfare of another human being.
So much more could be done to save souls as well as make a difference in the community to address both addiction and homelessness if proper leadership and accountability could be installed.