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Volunteer Spotlight: Nicki Petrie
Nicki is a volunteer chaplain at UGM, discipling the residents of Women’s Recovery Spokane. She started out about twelve years ago, serving dinners...
By Vern Buller, UGM board member
The food line begins and lasts for over an hour and a half, and still they keep coming. Many stop by to say thank you. We give out 150 pairs of socks; cold, wet feet are a constant problem. One man tells of placing plastic bread bags over his feet before putting on his shoes. All the coats we have brought and more than a bin full of blankets soon disappear.
As the evening winds down, two little girls who came with their parents to volunteer, step up to the microphone and sing a song most of us learned in Sunday school: “Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so.”
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He Is Risen, Indeed!
Written by UGM Men's Chaplain, Daniel Perry: While delivering a Bible message recently, I heard a loud voice from the back of the room say, “I don’t...
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I Was Once Where They Are
“Jesus had been with me through it all; I just didn’t have my eyes open."
Mental Health and Homelessness
Union Gospel Mission : December 1, 2013
Holly Simons, a psychiatric nurse, worked in the prison system for 10 years and first visited UGM while researching safe places for an inmate to go...