The Adult Rehabilitation Ministry (ARM) began over 24  years ago as part of the Outreach Ministry of the Golden Gate Missionary Baptist Church. The late Pastor Emeritus C.B.T. Smith envisioned a ministry that would meet the needs of chemically addicted men. In 1989 through the efforts of the women’s Mission II and Witnessing Team of Golden Gate, men who were in bondage to drugs and alcohol began to join the church. The vision became a reality in November 1989.

ARM began with a bus transporting men, many of which lived in local shelter, to and from weekly Brotherhood meetings, prayer service, and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. By January 1990, ARM had evolved into a full-service inpatient treatment program. A house adjacent to the church was secured. Four men moved in as ARM’s first residents. Today ARM has three houses with the ability to accommodate 24 men.

Since 1989, more than 3,000 men have participated in this spiritually based recovery program. The men have returned to their families’, jobs and communities as new men, committed to living a new life.

In 2002, the Women Adult Rehabilitation Ministry (WARM) began providing outpatient treatment services. To date, over 600 women have participated in this spiritually based recovery program.