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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Mar 14, 2019 10:09:22 AM
More than food, shelter or even the air we breathe, we need Jesus. That’s why the gospel is the cornerstone of UGM, holding up everything we do and believe. Our need for Him unites UGM staff, residents, volunteers, and partners around the cross –...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Mar 14, 2019 9:48:06 AM
“You’re stupid.” “You will never amount to anything.” “You’re a failure.” When you’ve grown up hearing lies, you begin to believe them. Your mind and...
Union Gospel Mission: Jan 14, 2019 1:02:00 PM
Here are just a few of the partnerships that helped the homeless at UGM in 2018.
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jan 14, 2019 1:01:59 PM
As I reflect back on 2018, my overwhelming reaction is one of gratitude: gratitude for God’s faithfulness, your partnership, the lost who have come...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Nov 7, 2018 1:01:40 PM
“I can go without. But I will not let my daughter sleep on the streets.” Kylee shows the desperation and resolve of a homeless mom with a...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Nov 7, 2018 12:50:23 PM
To mark World Homeless Day October 10, six crews from UGM went out to paint over graffiti in downtown Spokane. At the head of one of the painting...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Nov 7, 2018 12:35:06 PM
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.” – Isaiah 9:2 Generally, I'm an optimist. I see what is possible. I dream and make big...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Sep 11, 2018 2:12:10 PM
UGM makes it a priority to maintain a safe and healing environment throughout the ministry. The newest UGM medical clinic, which opened early in 2017...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Jun 4, 2018 5:26:51 PM
The majority of individuals in UGM's LIFE Recovery Program experienced trauma as young children: Abuse. Neglect. Abandonment. Homelessness. Those...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jun 4, 2018 5:26:40 PM
I had a teacher in sixth grade who thought she’d motivate me to try harder in school by giving me straight Ds. It didn’t motivate me. Quite the...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Jun 4, 2018 5:26:14 PM
For people who come from broken or dysfunctional families like those in our cover story, plugging into a local church provides the healthy “family”...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Mar 8, 2018 1:54:05 PM
“If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, who could stand?” This is the Gospel. All of humanity is under a curse. No matter how hard we try, we can...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Mar 8, 2018 1:53:33 PM
The chapel in the new Crisis Shelter for Women and Children is pretty humble. No organ or pews. No windows, stained-glass or otherwise. No elaborate...
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Union Gospel Mission: Jan 15, 2018 1:36:00 PM
Thousands of individuals, churches and businesses came together to be part of God’s miracles of provision and transformation, big and small, in 2017....
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jan 15, 2018 1:35:42 PM
2017 was a year of strengthening and solidifying ministry work throughout UGM. Frankly, it all started by identifying some weak areas and...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: Nov 16, 2017 11:19:11 AM
Over the past several years, Union Gospel Mission has seen an increase in the number of young moms with children coming to our shelters. “Helping...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Nov 16, 2017 11:19:07 AM
Tasked with raising five boys, my mom was an expert at energy management. She knew we needed to keep busy. She played baseball with us, worked...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Nov 16, 2017 11:19:00 AM
Ronnie Hazard was retired, widowed and living alone in a big house in Leavenworth when she asked God how she could serve him best. He put it on her...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Sep 11, 2017 12:12:35 PM
In the 37 years since he joined the Navy out of high school, Jody Littleford has worked. Hard. Launching and landing aircraft on a carrier. Loading,...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Sep 11, 2017 12:01:46 PM
A Spokane resident since the 1970s, Jon Garcia loves to soak in the beauty of the Inland Northwest while walking his dogs. Traversing various state...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Sep 11, 2017 11:59:41 AM
Editor's Note: This column was originally published in The Spokesman-Review on September 10, 2017. An abbreviated version of this quote by author...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Jul 11, 2017 2:40:41 PM
"I'm going to give my kids a different life. And I get to do that because I chose life over death." - Jocelyne Addictions don’t cause homelessness....
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jul 11, 2017 2:40:35 PM
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” - Proverbs 4:23 The heart. What an important, complicated, mysterious thing....
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Apr 5, 2017 5:05:00 PM
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (Psalm 119:105) God’s Word in the Bible, and the wonderful hope of salvation it describes,...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Apr 5, 2017 5:04:00 PM
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love.”* We couldn’t agree more, but not the wimpy, conditional love the world has to offer – not love based...
