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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director

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Heart to Heart: The Heart has Eyes

Sometimes we are blind. The problem (for most of us) isn’t with the function of our actual eyeballs, the cornea or the retina or the optical nerve. Even age isn’t the major problem. In fact, you might say our physical sight is working all too well....

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Why Go to Chapel?

For the majority of people coming through the doors of the Union Gospel Mission, the most pressing issues are shelter from the cold, a warm meal, the...

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What do You have in Common with a Drug Addict?

“Addiction” is a strong word. Most of us probably wouldn’t use it in reference to ourselves or we’d use it in a joking manner like, “Yeah, my...

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The Root of Our Joy

This sentence from the cover story struck me: “The day after Rachel was baptized, she received news that her father’s cancer had returned for the...

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Encouragement Empowers

“When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required.” (Luke...

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Recovery: the Power of Gratitude

Editor's note: This is the seventh and last post in a special Christmas devotional series, focusing on Isaiah 61:1-3.

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Recovery: Jesus brings beauty from ashes.

Editor's note: This is the sixth post in a special Christmas devotional series, focusing on Isaiah 61:1-3.

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Jesus Came to Comfort Those Who Mourn

Editor's note: This is the fourth post in a special Christmas devotional series, focusing on Isaiah 61:1-3. You may also want to read the...

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Jesus Came to Proclaim Freedom for the Captives

Editor's note: This is the fourth post in a special Advent/Christmas devotional series, focusing on Isaiah 61:1-3. You may also want to read the...

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What's the "G" in UGM?

Editor's Note: This is the second in a special devotional series. Read the introduction to the series, "A Front Row Seat to Holiness." A version of...

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The Outcome of Change

“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10, NKJV).

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Out of the Ashes

You may have noticed a theme in the 2013 Mission News. Over the past several months, we’ve been looking at the first three verses of Isaiah 61 and...

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