PHILANTHROPY: LIGHTHOUSE MISSION
Lighthouse at the end of the tunnel 90 years in, and with no government funding, the Lighthouse Mission provides shelter and meals by the 1,000s, and a path to rebuilding lives Articles and Photos by Sherri Huleatt
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even years ago, Paul Taft was a sad story. He was a homeless alcoholic who had dragged himself reluctantly to the doorstep of Bellingham Lighthouse Mission in a last bit attempt at finding some salvation. Not only was Taft desperately clinging to any street drug he
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could get his hands on, he had also sunk himself into about $34,000 of debt from unpaid child support. After going through the Mission’s one-year rehabilitation program, sorting through his finances with the program chaplain, and slowly
overcoming his addictions, Taft is now employed as manager of the Lighthouse Mission’s Men’s Shelter —a staff member on the front lines of repairing the many broken