[1][2] The organization operates a homeless shelter, meals, and emergency services, along with men's drug addiction recovery groups, community counseling, a chapel, and a thrift store.
The Mission claims their current program "targets whole life recovery, addressing the spiritual, physical and emotional needs of [their] guests.
[6] Its first meeting included George Redding, aged 61, who testified "almost nightly" that God has saved him from "rum, beer, cider, and opium."
[5] The following year, the Mission installed a free ice-water fountain outside its building, and in 1894 placed another on Speedwell Avenue,[6] likely for public safety as well as to "serve the cause of temperance.
[5][9][10] In 1891, a description of the Mission was published in the University of Wisconsin's Proceedings of the...Convention of Christian Workers in the United States and Canada.
On November 2, 1898, the new location opened; A History of Morris County described it as a "large and especially planned building, beautiful and complete in all its details.
[5] Circa 1907, the Mission toured its Gospel Wagon around Morristown every Sunday, joined by a group of local vocal soloists.
That year on October 24, the Gospel Wagon "hit upon the use of a phonograph," which played "sacred music...from [its] large horn."
The publicity stunt successfully drew audiences, and The New York Observer reported that "hereafter the Gospel wagon will carry the phonograph along on all trips.
It was "conducted by South Street church," and invited mission superintendents from the New York area to speak every evening.