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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: May 24, 2013
After working in the emergency room of a hospital, I thought serving as a nurse at summer camp would be a breeze, Alli said. But she hadn’t taken the emotional pain into account. Alli and I were having coffee after her term at UGM Camp ended. The...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: May 17, 2013
Several times a day, every day, 12-year-old Josh* asked the same question: Can God really forgive me? During his week at UGM Camp, Josh asked...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: May 14, 2013
When was the last time you sat around a campfire, roasting marshmallows and telling stories? Well, wherever you are at this moment, I’d like you to...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: May 10, 2013
Darleen Haff, Anjelique Mader, Chantell White, Cheryl Langton, Carlene Wright, and Debi Pauletto You remember the plot of The Princess Bride? A lowly...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 24, 2013
It's National Volunteer Week, and boy, oh boy, do we love our volunteers. Thankfully, they seem to like us pretty well, too. It turns out, when...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 22, 2013
Steve Viers went through UGM Recovery and was hired as the chef at the UGM Men's Shelter. His story was told through the following video at the UGM...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 19, 2013
"BELIEVE" was the theme of UGM's Annual Banquet this year. The event was full of amazing stories of life transformation: men and women changed from...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 16, 2013
Meet the Hefling family: Maliaka, Izzy, 4, Noah, 9, Silas, 6, Roman, 2, Joe, and Maranatha, 16 mos. Inspired by Christ's miraculous feeding of the...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 11, 2013
Recovery: the freedom to express yourself Look what Petra, a resident in UGM's Women's Recovery, did with her weekend. Petra is shy and humble about...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 2, 2013
Editor’s Note: UGM’s theme for 2013 is taken from the prophecy regarding Christ’s work in Isaiah 61:1-3. We’ve been looking at how God accomplishes...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 27, 2013
Last December, when the Marketing team chose this passage as UGM's theme for 2013, we were mostly thinking about how Jesus works inside this...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 13, 2013
UGM’s Center for Women & Children provides a safe and healing environment where women are set free from the bondage of addictions and abusive...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 12, 2013
Spring break missions group from the Evangelical Free Church in Bozeman, Montana What are your plans for spring break? Some people go skiing or head...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 6, 2013
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 5, 2013
“He has sent me . . . to proclaim freedom for the captives,” Isaiah 61:1. At 11, Rowdy had his first run-in with the law. He stole a dirt bike. When...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 25, 2013
Robert Miller, medical records at Columbia Medical One in Ten: Odds that a person who has been out of work for more than 27 weeks will find a job...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 19, 2013
The UGM Crisis Shelter for Women and Children held an essay contest. Below is the winning entry by Carla Knudsen, age 19.
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 14, 2013
If you’ve ever had your heart broken or just found yourself utterly alone on the day devoted to romance, hearts, flowers and chocolate, you know...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 6, 2013
"He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted," Isaiah 61:1. Before the publication of February’s newsletter on “binding up the brokenhearted,” we sat...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 1, 2013
“My heart was hard, but now I have a new heart.”
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: January 29, 2013
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: January 25, 2013
The new UGM Center for Women & Children celebrated its first phase promotion last Friday – another landmark step on the fulfillment of a vision over...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: January 22, 2013
