Firehouse Ministries Opens New $5.8 Million Shelter In Birmingham

By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times

Before the ribbon was cut on the new Firehouse Ministries in downtown Birmingham, Executive Director Anne Wright Rygiel had to take one last trip down memory lane.

Rygiel paid a visit to the soon-to-be-vacated old shelter, “our home for the past 36 years, and I spent some time contemplating about what it took for us to get from there to here to this exact moment. … I thought about the staff, then and now. … Mostly I thought about our guests, thousands and thousands of people who come to the old Firehouse shelter to seek refuge from the storm, figuratively and literally.”

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