Alltel Wireless, Cell Phone Provider and Good Samaritan.

In what the Newgate Mission hopes is a new Christmas tradition, Alltel Wireless donated ten cell phones to the mission for use on Christmas. For the second year in a row, the local branch office for Alltel Wireless in Longview, California donated the cell phones for use by the mission's needy.

The mission has been offering food and goodies to their areas needy and less fortunate for years, and now offers phone calls to loved ones. Some of the staff of the Newgate Mission over hears some of the conversations that take place and could not be more grateful to Alltel for providing the service. The staff has witnessed (overheard) many overdue reunions over the phones these past two years.