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Honoring Lives Changed
The 2025 Life Recovery commencees have journeyed through deep valleys of struggle and hardship. Yet, with resilience and grace, they have emerged...
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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Embracing Grace
Chrystin struggled with alcoholism for sixteen years before entering UGM’s recovery program. “I felt so defeated and was lying in bed, drinking, just...
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Finding Opportunity, Finding Something Lasting
At Union Gospel Mission, we understand that meeting urgent needs—food, shelter, medical care, and job training—is just the beginning. These are the...
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...