Panama City- BP is scaling back it's oil clean-up response here in the panhandle. Hundreds of out-of-town people, some who had a clean-up job, are now unemployed. BP's scale back has meant a gearing-up for the Panama City Rescue Mission.

Roger Haines, a father of four, left his job as an Ohio fast food restaurant manager to make more money as an oil clean up worker. It hasn't worked out. "I worked for two days and I've been on stand-by ever since, for the last 3 weeks. Now I am basically stuck between a rock and a hard place. My old job is gone and I can't get back home," said Haines.

Haines is not alone. Cedric Hooper left his Tampa security job after he was recruited. "The agency said they would meet me here on Panama City Beach for the interview and training. Once I got here to Panama City, I went over their location but they had already left."

"What I feel like they've done with the oil spill is gather up an army to fight this war that hasn't taken place and said "You troops who came here from anywhere else, you have no place to sleep and nothing to eat. All of you who came to fight this battle, I'm sorry there is no battle to fight so go find something to eat, go find a place to sleep," said Rev. Billy Fox, the Executive Director of the Panama City Rescue Mission.

The demand is draining the rescue mission's already-strained resources. Client services are up 25 to 30% from last year. "Even the temporary agencies don't have any jobs because there are so many people here from different states that it's hard for them to help everybody," said Haines. For most of these people, the goal is to get back home. "At least 20 who have been here for several weeks, got up enough resources to get back home. They took local resources to get back home, not a bad thing on their part, but just a reality of what this is causing. What would this community do in this situation without the rescue mission?" said Fox.

"If it wasn't for Rev. Fox and the rescue mission I would be staying out in the woods," said Michael Mathes, here from North Carolina. "If it wasn't for this mission I don't know what we would do, that is the truth. Rev. Fox and this rescue mission is saving alot of guys, saving alot of guys," said Haines.

The rescue mission housed 184 people last month who'd never stayed there before. That's a new record.