According to the Evansville Rescue Mission President / CEO Tracy Gorman, the ERM is going to be offering its 105-acre retreat center, Camp Reveal, for sale in the very near future:
“Camp Reveal has played an extraordinarily important role in the life of your Evansville Rescue Mission over the past eight decades. The Board of Directors and I are very aware that, more than ever, our community truly needs the focus of the ERM to be on meeting the needs of a rapidly growing homeless population here in the Tri-State. In fact, the number of unhoused individuals has increased significantly this year, and we want to rise to the occasion by providing the best possible assistance to as many of those individuals as we possibly can.â€
Gorman says, “This will happen best through our ministry at the Men’s Residence Center, where we offer 222 beds; and from which we will provide over 300,000 meals this year. As well, beginning in 2025, the Mission will open the Susan H. Snyder Center for Women and Children on the east side of Evansville. This new facility will provide between 125 and 170-bed spaces to homeless women and their children – and will be the first such facility in our entire region.
With limited resources, the ERM had to make some tough, strategic choices. With prayerful consideration, and a focus on where our community has the direst, currently unmet needs, we concluded the resources the Lord has and will continue to provide must be intentionally focused on our ministries to the homeless, hungry, addicted, and marginalized. That realization helped us to make the decision to sell Camp Reveal.â€
Gorman says that the Broker for the sale will be announced soon, and that the current summer camp season will not be affected by this decision.
FOOTNOTE: Camp Reveal is a 105-acre retreat center on the far north side of Evansville and is located at 1340 E. Boonville –
New Harmony Road. It has been owned by the Evansville Rescue Mission since the mid-1930s. It is named after the founder and first president of the ERM, Dr. Ernest “Pappy†Reveal.
The Evansville Rescue Mission was founded in 1917 by Dr. Ernest Reveal and has continually operated in the Evansville area for 107 years. It is comprised of the Men’s Residence Center; the Youth Care Center; Camp Reveal; The ThriH Store; Mission Grounds Coffee Shop; The Furniture Warehouse; the ERM Leadership and Resource Center;
and the coming Susan H. Snyder Center for Women and Children. The Evansville Rescue Mission is overseen by a 14-member Board of Directors; and is led by its President / CEO, Tracy L.
