It all started with a little blue house and a mission.

Since 1956, Soul’s Harbor has been doing what it was built to do: help men help themselves and break the cycle of homelessness and addiction.

OUR FOUNDING

Men deserve more than a meal and a sermon.

In the 1950s, L.E. “Jake” Stembridge spent a lot of time visiting Dallas missions. What he saw bothered him. Men were taken in for the night, given a meal and a sermon, then sent back to the street to face the same problems alone. Jake believed there had to be a better way, a better place. A place where a man could stay, think, evaluate his life, and do something about it.

He didn’t have the money, but he had the idea. So he took it to a Dallas businessman named Ralph Whittle, who agreed to help. In the spring of 1956, Jake bought a small house in Kleberg, walked into a couple of missions, and invited a half-dozen men to share it. They worked together, turning their lives around and regaining their self-respect. More men joined, growing the humble house into a campus.

Today, that little blue house is still on our property, and the work that started inside it is still going on every day.

OUR MISSION

Help men help themselves.

Soul’s Harbor is a non-profit, non-denominational recovery home for men. We believe in dignity over pity and brotherhood over isolation. The men who arrive at Soul’s Harbor come from every walk of life and every kind of past. Here, they find themselves, a community, and a way of living they can maintain.

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75%

of graduates reach one year of sobriety

90%+

of exit-plan participants reach long-term sobriety

$0

cost for scholarship recipients

Healing. Brotherhood. Restoration.

Empowering men with the space and tools they need to recover from addiction. A non-profit, non-denominational recovery home serving Dallas since 1956.

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