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Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Kappel has been manager of the furniture
shop for a year while participating in the mis
sion’s rehabilitation program.
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By CAROL THOMAS
Battalion Reporter
Jim Kappel, 23, left his North Dakota family to attend college. He
traveled to Minnesota, Iowa and Texas, looking for a job. Jessie
Breedlove, 55, has spent most ofhis life drifting from job to job all over
Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. Wendell Hutchins started out as a cook
in Florida and has cooked from the east coast all the way to Texas.
Kappel, Breedlove and Hutchins have at least three things in
common: they are loners, they enjoy drifting from place to place and
they are currently staying at Twin City Missions in Bryan.
Twin City Missions provides a variety of services. Through dona
tions from private citizens, churches and businesses, they have set up
furniture and clothing stores in which items may be purchased for as
little as a nickel. They also provide food baskets to the needy, filling
them with fresh meat, flour, shortening, soup and canned goods.
They have developed a women’s shelter for battered wives, as well
as The Sheltering Arms, a refuge for children whose parents are
abusive or unable to take care of them.
But probably the best known and oldest service offered by Twin City
Missions is the men’s program. Men who are out of a job or out of a
home can find food, shelter and clothing at the mission.
Executive secretary Joan Sebesta, who has worked closely with the
men, said eight out of 10 are alcoholics. For those who have been
drinking, she said, they have a detoxification ward.
“We do have doctors on call and a nurse on call,” she said. “They
prescribe medicine that helps them get over the shakes.”
Besides just giving the men shelter, food and clothing, Sebesta said
they also provide counseling and spiritual guidance. Some of them do
not have homes and are not able to function in society,” she said.
“Others just do not feel comfortable in society. ”
If the men are willing, Sebesta said, they can stay and work on the
rehabilitation program. “Our main goal is physical and spiritual — we
would love to see them all rehabilitated.”
To help rehabilitate the men, Sebesta said, they let them work.
“They can help on our trucks, clothing store, kitchen or on recycling
rags and cardboard,” Sebesta said.
While most men drift in and out, Kappel and Breedlove have stayed
over a year at the missions. “It keeps me settled down,” said Kappel,
who works in the furniture store.
Kappel said his reason for coming to Twin City Missions was his
need for work. With a three-year college education in tool making, he
was still unable to find work in Minnesota, North Dakota or Iowa.
By staying at the mission, Kappel has learned new trades.
T’ve learned how to repair movie projectors, typewriters and office
equipment,” he said.
Unlike most of the men, Kappel does have family, and often receives
mail and phone calls from them.
Kappel said he has a few ideas about what he might want to do in the
future. One hope is to get a good, steady job. “If a good opportunity
comes up, I will take it,” he said.
Jessie Breedlove is not as concerned about being settled down as
Kappel is. He has been the furniture repairman for the mission for two
years, but he said his stay is about over.
Before his stay at the mission, Breedlove said he enjoyed traveling
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and working different jobs as in oil fields, saw mills and construction
areas.
“Just ramblingfrom place to place,” Breedlove said. “Up until about
two years ago, that’s all I did — travel. ”
Breedlove had a simple explanation for his drifting. “It’s just nature
to move — we just won’t stay in one place.”
Breedlove said staying at the mission had been a great help. “It’s
given me a place to stay,” he said. “It keeps me off the roads.
“And while they’re helping me, I’m helping them.”
Wendell “Hutch” Hutchins has been at the mission for a relatively
shorter period of time than Kappel and Breedlove. At 58, the mission
was his last resort.
“I couldn’t get no work,” Hutchins said. “Just no other place to go.
They’re just not employing the older generation.”
Before coming to the mission, Hutchins said he had been out of work
off and on for three years. When he was not able to find a place to stay,
Hutchins often had to sleep outside.
Hutchins said the missions he stayed at in Houston were not as
helpful as the one in Bryan.
“I was at one mission one night and they woke us up at 4:30 to give us
one cup of coffee, one doughnut and send us on our way,” he said.
Hutchins also said the food at Twin City Missions is much better
than the other missions where he stayed and he enjoys cooking it. “The
missions in Houston don’t give out nothing but beans and bread, and I
don’t like to cook that.
“It’s (Twin Cities Mission) a good clean bed, quarters and good clean
food,” he said.
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