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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Mar 10, 2020 5:45:19 PM
We are nearing one of my favorite times of the year: the celebration of Christ’s resurrection from the dead! He is risen. He is risen indeed. Without...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jan 9, 2020 1:04:47 PM
“I think we’re all made to find our significance by being attached to the ultimate. All human beings are created to attach their tiny, little lives...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jul 5, 2016 11:50:26 AM
“The best social program is a job.”
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: May 12, 2016 12:45:17 PM
I remember the day very clearly. I was a junior at Northwest Nazarene University, walking across campus…I can even tell you the spot on campus where...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Oct 5, 2015 12:15:00 PM
This story has become a bit of an urban legend, but its veracity is authenticated by Snopes.com.
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Sep 1, 2015 11:50:05 AM
We have been using the slogan “Hope starts here” for years now, and I’ve always thought I got it, but after a recent trip to a major metropolitan...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jul 1, 2015 11:50:15 AM
The interviews for this month’s cover story yielded some great insight on the subject of freedom. Particularly intriguing to me was how drastically...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Apr 1, 2015 11:50:28 AM
There’s a good kind of tired. You know what I mean? That kind of tired where you’ve put in a full day of hard, physical work. You got dirty. You...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Feb 1, 2015 10:50:19 AM
Myth: To be a person who disciples others, you have to have it all together. Truth: No one has it all together. Myth: Only a select group of...
James Bishop: Dec 31, 2014 10:59:42 AM
2014 was a fantastic year for UGM – thanks to you! Once again, our community went above and beyond to bless the poor, the homeless, and the broken....
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James Bishop: Dec 1, 2014 10:50:39 AM
“And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness…” Deuteronomy 8:2.
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Nov 1, 2014 11:50:53 AM
The word “bread” is often used as a synonym for sustenance. “Bread and water” describe the bare minimum given to prisoners in dungeons of old. The...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Sep 1, 2014 11:50:27 AM
Homelessness does not happen overnight, and it will not be solved overnight. Taking a homeless person and putting him into an apartment will not...
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Union Gospel Mission: Jul 1, 2014 11:55:05 AM
“Jesus was tough on sinners who refused to forgive other sinners. In the final sum, we give grace because we’ve been given grace.” – Max Lucado If...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Jan 1, 2014 10:58:30 AM
I’m amazed at what can change in a person’s life in a little over a year’s time when he or she aggressively pursues recovery. Consider the cover...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Oct 1, 2013 11:37:32 AM
“Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering,”...
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Union Gospel Mission: Sep 1, 2013 11:59:25 AM
Here are the words of Jesus my staff and I are focusing on this fall: “For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: Feb 1, 2013 4:35:00 PM
“There are no safe paths in this part of the world” – the wizard Gandalf in master storyteller J.R.R. Tolkien’s tale, The Hobbit.
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Union Gospel Mission: Dec 31, 2012 11:00:36 PM
I have an antique brass level sitting in my office where I will see it frequently and be reminded of the importance of balancing two essential...
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Union Gospel Mission: Sep 1, 2012 12:00:18 PM
We had a sod party last month to prepare for the opening of the new Center for Women and Children in Idaho. Lots of people showed up, and as they...
