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Union Gospel Mission: April 6, 2017
When trauma and schoolwork intersect By Joel Brown, UGM Director of Ministries It is 9:25 in the morning and Billy (named changed to protect privacy) is just arriving to school. The rest of the kids have already started their entry task and are...
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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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Union Gospel Mission: March 21, 2017
As spring begins, we thank God for light – more sunshine and longer days. They aren’t just conveniences. They remind us, after the cold and darkness...
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Union Gospel Mission: March 16, 2017
Gratitude to the Rescue By Gwen Schwartz Since joining the UGM ministry team almost two years ago as the Director of Ministry Advancement, God has...
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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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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 9, 2017
Editor's note: Barbara opened up about her struggle with depression in the last post. Here, she follows up with the practical ways she manages that...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 7, 2017
By Barbara Comito, Director of Marketing & Communications I once interviewed a teenager who described her depression as a “blanket on the brain.” The...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 2, 2017
Editor’s note: Recently we’ve been talking about mental struggles on the Impact Blog. From insomnia to trauma and addiction, there are many struggles...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 1, 2017
It’s hard to talk about homelessness without talking about mental illness. An oft-quoted estimate suggests that as many as one-third of homeless...
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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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Union Gospel Mission: February 14, 2017
This month on the Impact Blog, we’re looking at issues of the mind: sadness, depression, anxiety, mental illness, darkness vs. light. There’s a wide...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 10, 2017
Recently we ran a series on God’s love for the poor which, in my mind at least, begs the question: “How does he feel about the rich?” Does he love...
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Union Gospel Mission: February 8, 2017
Editor's Note: For the next month, we'll be looking at issues that seem particularly relevant during the gray, icy, short days of winter in the...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 3, 2017
The UGM Crisis Shelter for Women and Children is approaching its 13th anniversary in January. While the surroundings have changed dramatically in the...
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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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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: January 18, 2017
As we shared in an earlier blog post, UGM stresses the importance of individual accountability for staff and residents. In this post, we want to...
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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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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: January 10, 2017
By Barbara Comito, UGM Marketing Director Who would ever read a blog post on Total Accountability? My staff said they wouldn’t. (So I changed the...
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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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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: December 30, 2016
This is the third part of a series by UGM Marketing Director Barbara Comito. So far in this series, we’ve pretty well established that God does...
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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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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: December 23, 2016
Love is not a victory march. It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah. -Leonard Cohen By Barbara Comito, Director of Marketing A young friend asked...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: December 20, 2016
In her last post, Barbara revisited what the Bible says about God's instruction for us to "love the poor." Here, she digs deeper into what that...
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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...
