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Being Light in the Darkness
Homelessness is a deeply layered crisis—one that requires compassion, resilience, and community to overcome. Because of your support, we don’t walk...
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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A Light in the Valley
More than 20 years ago, the idea of a shelter in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley was born, and in the past few years has begun to take shape. Soon,...
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Reach out. Connect. Engage. Reconcile.
“The enemy got his hooks into me early. I’d been using for roughly 40 years.”
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...