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Taking the Step of Obedience
In the 1980s, I was part of Campus Crusade, a ministry working with students—future leaders—on a college campus, believing they'd make an impact on...
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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Fifty Years of Faithfulness
In our previous newsletter, we reflected on the Mission’s early years—those initial twenty-five years driven by courageous women and men who launched...
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Mothers & Children in Recovery
Happy Mother's Day! Union Gospel Mission of the Inland Northwest has been providing services to women and their children since opening Anna Ogden...
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...