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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 commute brought my middle-class sensibilities uncomfortably close to the plight of poor and homeless...
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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...
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Union Gospel Mission: December 14, 2016
From its inception in 1951, Union Gospel Mission’s purpose has been to break – not perpetuate – the cycle of homelessness.
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: December 8, 2016
Editor's note: This is Part 1 in a three-part series about loving the poor. Part 2 explores the meaning of the word "love"in this context, and Part 3...
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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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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: November 29, 2016
(Editor's note: The following article appeared in the Coeur d'Alene Press on November 26, 2016) Three years ago, Helen Webster, 60, was living on the...
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Union Gospel Mission: November 25, 2016
By Brad Crockett, UGM board member The value of Pursuing Excellence is an essential recognition that while we cannot attain perfection on this side...
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Merrily Roe, former staff writer: November 23, 2016
Almost exactly two years ago, I came to Union Gospel Mission at a time when I was learning what felt like extremely hard (but extravagantly...
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Union Gospel Mission: November 18, 2016
By Barbara Comito, Director of Marketing and Communications (Edited from a Spokane MarCom blog post) Some of UGM’s most prolific partners are...
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Union Gospel Mission: November 16, 2016
In UGM Recovery, the men and women learn that setting boundaries is part of having truly loving relationships. In fact, what seems like a loving...
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Merrily Roe, former staff writer: November 11, 2016
Military service ran in Ben’s family. Growing up, he planned to follow suit. But first, he wanted to let loose. “I moved to Arizona and I started...
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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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Merrily Roe, former staff writer: November 3, 2016
He had the jobs, made the money, wore the nice clothes, had the stuff, but Eric Samuels never quite felt good enough. “I was striving to do good all...
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Union Gospel Mission: October 28, 2016
By Sonny Westbrook, UGM Director of Ministries One of the core values we hold dear here within UGM is Christ-likeness. Christ-likeness is the...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: October 25, 2016
My title is Director of Marketing & Communications, but my job is telling stories. For almost nine years, in one way or another, I’ve been...
