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Union Gospel Mission: May 8, 2019
Looking at pictures of the kids having fun at UGM Camp, you might conclude that the best thing about camp is outdoor games, swimming, river tubing, fishing or archery. But those fun things are only part of the real deal. The best thing about UGM...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: May 2, 2019
Patty’s a self-described alcoholic. But sobriety isn’t what her recovery is all about. It’s about finding a new way after long-held habits and ways...
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Union Gospel Mission: April 25, 2019
The following testimony was given by Phil Reese, UGM Recovery resident, on Easter Sunday. In January of 2017, I was nearing the end of a four-month...
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Union Gospel Mission: April 22, 2019
“Partnering with the Inland Northwest to reach the poor with the love and power of the gospel so they may become God-dependent, contributing members...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 10, 2019
“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” – I John 1:8 We don’t talk much about sin on the UGM blog - mostly...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: April 3, 2019
“As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” – John 13:34-35...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 27, 2019
Robert Kollenborn, 56, walked out of Geiger Correctional Facility on September 17, 2017, and walked straight to the Union Gospel Mission Men’s...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: March 21, 2019
What does the Gospel have to do with the Gathering? It’s a little harder to answer that question this year than in previous years, when UGM’s annual...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: March 14, 2019
The relentless love started the first Sunday Charity’s family came into Christ the Redeemer church: “You can’t even walk out the door without 15...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 13, 2019
Before coming to the UGM Center for Women and Children in Coeur d’Alene, Nikki Downs was in jail. Her infant son had been taken by Child Protective...
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Union Gospel Mission: March 6, 2019
By Kirste Richards, LIFE Recovery Intake Counselor, UGM Center for Women and Children - One of the first things a woman hears when she comes to a...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 27, 2019
Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. - Hebrews 13:2 Patti...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: February 20, 2019
“I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 13, 2019
Editor's note, July 8, 2019: “The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.” - Proverbs 16:9 Illness has forced Jonathan to withdraw...
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Union Gospel Mission: February 6, 2019
"Change" is one of UGM's distinctives. It defines our piece of the pie. We are here for people currently living in addiction or homelessness who are...
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Union Gospel Mission: January 30, 2019
We talk a lot about the impact of volunteers across our ministries. Here’s a group of partners we don’t often refer to as “volunteers,” but they...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: January 24, 2019
...and not always just the people you think. “In the interviewing process for potential staff, I always communicate that if they choose to accept...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: January 17, 2019
“It’s not like I’m doing anything special, because I love it so much.” Ask Jenny Gasperino why she volunteers at the Union Gospel Mission, and you’ll...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: January 8, 2019
Words to Direct Our Paths There's something about a new notebook, a blank calendar, a freshly tilled plot of soil that beckons us. It's a fresh...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: January 1, 2019
I’ve never been big on making new year’s resolutions. It’s partly because of a general fear of failure with which I’ve struggled most of my life – I...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: December 28, 2018
My dad died on December 12 of this year. His death was by no means a tragedy. He was 89 years old, had lived a full, meaningful life and died...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: December 19, 2018
“Stay consistent in their lives, even when they’re the hardest to love.” That, in a nutshell, is the key to caring for the children living with their...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: December 11, 2018
Kari had been walking for four days. Literally. She wasn’t going anywhere. She didn’t need the exercise. She was walking because her life had come to...
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Union Gospel Mission: December 5, 2018
By Kamee Bissell, former Counselor in Women’s Recovery at Anna Ogden Hall - Many of the women who apply for our LIFE Recovery Program at Anna Ogden...
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Union Gospel Mission: November 28, 2018
By JoAnn Zajicek, Director, Center for Women and Children - Not yet two years old, the girl consistently wakes up with night terrors. She’s been in...
