The Refuge Cleveland

Mission: To meet people where they are, to share the love of Christ, and to disciple them to go out and reach others.

Refuge Community Church opened its doors in Pastor Don and Miss Dawn’s home in 2017. But the story begins almost three decades earlier with Pastor Don growing up in Cleveland in the 1980s. It was then that Don watched bussing come and steel mills leave. Moreover, he watched his neighborhood become vacated houses and people leaving for the suburbs with their resources. He too tried to leave, but that all changed when the Lord called him and his family to start reaching people in that very same neighborhood.

Pastor Don believes that God loves people struggling with heroin, those who are homeless, those who dabble in the occult, and those who seek to numb the pain. So, God opened the doors to a ministry in that neighborhood that Don tried to leave, and that’s when Refuge Community Church was born.

Since coming to Old Brooklyn, Refuge has distributed food, held addiction meetings, hosted meals, and witnessed changed lives in the people of this neighborhood. We all deeply appreciate all that the Lord is doing and will continue to do. More so, we want to invite you to be a part of it as well.