Gospel-Rooted Help with Tom De Vries -- Episode 1
Oct 15, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
Oct 15, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
Rogers MeredithGuest
Eric EngelmannHost
My rector from a church that I attended became the senior chaplain here at Union Gospel Mission for a few years.
I'm told that he had a saying that his job was to make sure to keep Union Gospel Mission in Tarrant County Christian, just because of all of the other diversions, the other things that might come up.
How would you recommend that people here stay Christian? What are your thoughts on that?
It's not a bad thing, but certainly you have two almost seemingly diametrically opposed ways of looking at things.
There certainly is some overlap there, but the way the wind tends to blow is one way or the other.
And if it goes one way and it goes too far, obviously, if you're in this kind of work, you know where that goes.
And so that's kind of what I think just to elucidate a little bit what he's getting
And I think it's great to be able to have – A historical perspective and rootedness in understanding who you are.
Uh, and it was great to be with Christians from Europe and the UK from South Africa and around the world who share a similar heart and passion, uh, and centeredness around the gospel, uh, that kind of came to our side of the pond in 1872 with Jerry McCauley, uh, who started the first, uh, rescue mission in New York city and, uh, 316 Water Street was actually where it was started.
And he realized that there needed to be ministry to those men who had been incarcerated and now were on the street and had no place to go.
And he started a city mission, a rescue mission that way that ultimately in 1906, we started as the International Union of Gospel Missions, which then became the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions.
My rector from a church that I attended became the senior chaplain here at Union Gospel Mission for a few years.
I'm told that he had a saying that his job was to make sure to keep Union Gospel Mission in Tarrant County Christian, just because of all of the other diversions, the other things that might come up.
How would you recommend that people here stay Christian? What are your thoughts on that?
It's not a bad thing, but certainly you have two almost seemingly diametrically opposed ways of looking at things.
There certainly is some overlap there, but the way the wind tends to blow is one way or the other.
And if it goes one way and it goes too far, obviously, if you're in this kind of work, you know where that goes.
And so that's kind of what I think just to elucidate a little bit what he's getting
And I think it's great to be able to have – A historical perspective and rootedness in understanding who you are.
Uh, and it was great to be with Christians from Europe and the UK from South Africa and around the world who share a similar heart and passion, uh, and centeredness around the gospel, uh, that kind of came to our side of the pond in 1872 with Jerry McCauley, uh, who started the first, uh, rescue mission in New York city and, uh, 316 Water Street was actually where it was started.
And he realized that there needed to be ministry to those men who had been incarcerated and now were on the street and had no place to go.
And he started a city mission, a rescue mission that way that ultimately in 1906, we started as the International Union of Gospel Missions, which then became the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions.
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