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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: May 3, 2017
Yesterday, the Engage! Work Seminar kicked off for the folks in the UGM recovery programs: People in the latter phases of the program preparing to re-enter the workforce. Also yesterday, technology and server issues cut me off from my email and the...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: April 27, 2017
Courage was on display at Tuesday’s phase promotion celebration for the Men’s Recovery program. For one thing, it isn’t easy for anyone to admit they...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: April 15, 2017
We’re all looking for the easiest way to change things about ourselves – our weight, our wrinkles, our temper, our energy level, our children, our...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: March 30, 2017
“Ah, look at all the lonely people.” – The Beatles I don’t think I’m the only one who feels this way, but let’s check: In which of these situations...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: March 23, 2017
I was part of a brainstorming session about how to get the word out about UGM’s relatively new Recovery for Life weekly 12-step meetings. From a...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: March 15, 2017
Serious mental illness. It’s a tough topic. But when we exist to serve the homeless, we simply cannot ignore it. As we mentioned in a previous post,...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: February 16, 2017
When Joe Marsh came in for a job interview, it was his first time inside the Union Gospel Mission. Looking across the common area, the Men’s Shelter...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: January 20, 2017
I don’t remember when it first struck me. It may have been at that UGM volunteer orientation in 2010. Perhaps it was even earlier, as my city bus...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: January 13, 2017
In his year in review, Phil talks about what God did through our partners in 2016 to bless the poor and homeless at the Union Gospel Mission.
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: January 6, 2017
2016. No matter how tumultuous it seemed for the U.S. and the world, God was at work. We could see it every day at the Union Gospel Mission. Nothing...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: January 3, 2017
“All I knew how to do is just yell at her, and that stems from how I was raised. I didn’t know any better.” – Melissa Time was running out on any...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: December 27, 2016
The December Mission News focused on one of the happiest by-products of recovery: children being reunited with their moms, and not merely being...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: December 16, 2016
Jessie’s 23-year drug and alcohol addiction had already cost her a son and a daughter, taken from her as babies. But she had managed to hang on to...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: December 2, 2016
If you hang around UGM for any time at all, you’ll hear talk of the difference between “checking the boxes” and pursuing real life change. Even when...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: December 1, 2016
Geraldine Fait’s connection to UGM goes all the way back to the Mission’s earliest days. Her husband, Fred, was a policeman assigned to the “skid...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: November 9, 2016
Annie Crain thought her medical career was behind her when the former RN and her husband moved back to her native Spokane area last year after...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: September 16, 2016
Dan Eylar, a technician at Union Gospel Mission Motors, knows cars. He's worked on them professionally for more than 30 years, so he's seen just...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: August 5, 2016
“Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.” I John 4:4b As assistant manager at the downtown UGM Thrift Store, Kristen Nitschke works...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: April 29, 2016
The second part of an interview with Susan Pray, Administrative Assistant at the Center for Women and Children. You can read the first part of her...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: April 27, 2016
When you hear that Susan Pray is the “administrative assistant” at Coeur d’Alene’s Center for Women and Children, you may get the wrong idea. Sure,...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: April 12, 2016
In Part 2 of an interview with UGM Chaplain Ron Molina, he talks about lives that God has changed at UGM, why daily chapel services are important and...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: April 8, 2016
If you’re a guest at UGM’s men’s shelter, you go to chapel every night. If you’re not, you may not even know there is a chapel service at the shelter...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: March 3, 2016
The counselor cannot say to the maintenance worker, “I have no need of you,” nor again the meal server to the case manager, “I have no need of you.”...
