Mansfield Mission Center breaks ground on new facility

By Amanda Rogers

Mansfield Record

Mansfield Mission Center leaders and city officials broke ground Thursday on a complex that will bring all of the non-profit agency’s operations under one roof.

“This is a pivotal moment in the history of the Mansfield Mission Center,” said executive director Brian McFadden. “People will no longer have to go to three locations to get assistance. We’ll look back on this day as a point in time when compassion moved to one location.”

The mission center began as the Wesley Mission Center thrift store for First Methodist Church in 1979 and kept growing. Currently, the center has three locations: the Linda Nix Clinic, 901 W. Broad St., which sees medical and dental patients; the Mansfield Mission Thrift Store, 703 E. Broad St., where residents donate and shop for re-sale items; and the Mansfield Mission Center community room, administrative offices and Food Market, 78 Regency Parkway, where people in the Mansfield ISD can go to shop for free food.

The new united facility will be adjacent to the Linda Nix Clinic on West Broad Street. Construction on the 19,000-square-foot building will begin in the next few weeks and – weather permitting – be completed by October or November, McFadden said.

Construction will cost $4 million and the non-profit has started a capital campaign to raise the funds.

For more information about the Mansfield Mission Center, contact Stacia Miller at staciam@mansfieldmission.org.