The Lighthouse Mission, Inc.

About The Lighthouse Mission, Inc.

The Lighthouse Mission, Inc. is a sober living operator in Clovis, New Mexico, providing shelter and recovery housing in Curry County. It is a nonprofit, non-stock religious corporation serving Clovis and the surrounding eastern New Mexico communities.

A Rescue Mission as a Recovery Housing Provider

The organization's stated purpose is to acquire and provide whatever is needed in the way of physical, financial or spiritual aid, comfort and encouragement, and to meet the needs of the whole person in body, soul and spirit. In practice that is shelter, meals, clothing and help for people struggling with addiction, delivered without the screening a fee-based sober house applies at the door. The people who arrive have usually run out of every other option.

Faith-Based Sober Living in Eastern New Mexico

This is an explicitly Christian ministry, and the framing is present throughout the work. Anyone evaluating it should take that at face value in both directions: the spiritual component is central, and a person who wants it will get it consistently. Richard and Geri Gomez have been the public faces of the organization, which describes itself as proudly serving eastern New Mexico's community.

Where This Curry County Recovery Housing Provider Works

Clovis is the county seat of Curry County, on the High Plains at the Texas line, and the mission serves the city and the communities around it: Portales, Texico, Melrose, Fort Sumner and the surrounding ranch country. Cannon Air Force Base and the rail yard anchor the local economy. This corner of the state sits a long way from Albuquerque's treatment capacity, which puts a heavy load on the few organizations providing beds locally. An operator that has held the ground for decades is doing work nobody else in the county is doing.

Supporting and Reaching a Clovis Sober Living Operator

The mission runs on donations, volunteers and church support, and it publishes ways to give and to help. New Mexico maintains no register of recovery housing providers, so an applicant or a family should ask the operator directly: how long someone may stay, whether men and women are housed separately, what is expected in exchange for a bed, whether a resident on prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is welcome, and how a complaint gets heard. Referrals and intake go through the organization.