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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: January 13, 2022
Picture a man with a badge and a gun chaperoning women at a recovery center Valentine’s Day gala. Now, picture him in tears as he presents handmade certificates of achievement to each one individually, calling them by name and saying how proud of...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: January 6, 2022
Matt and Nicole Hendrickson are Impact Partners (UGM monthly giving program) who’ve been quietly investing in the lives of homeless men and women for...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: December 30, 2021
The Mission at Christmastime: brimming with hope, cozy and warm, piled with gifts. This is not what I expected. I came to Union Gospel Mission in May...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: December 23, 2021
Christmas turns our thoughts to family, whether it’s kids getting into the “magic of the season” or the contemplation of a special baby laid in a...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: December 16, 2021
In an essay entitled “Family Breakdown: Restoring a Damaged Masterpiece,” UGM Chaplain Sonny Westbrook describes what happens when God’s design for...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: December 9, 2021
Eric Blackman was trying to live the party life. Alcohol, drugs and carefree days shaped his mid-twenties through early-thirties.
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: December 3, 2021
Opioids. Meth. Marijuana. Cocaine. Cartels. Addiction. Synthetics. Big money. Big pharma. Overdoses.
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: November 24, 2021
Executive Director Phil Altmeyer frequently tells our partners that only in eternity will they know the extent of their influence in people’s lives....
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: November 18, 2021
I wanted this article to tell a story about somebody else. That’s what I like to do.
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: November 10, 2021
JUST TWO YEARS AGO THIS CHRISTMAS, Sarah was in a dark place. She had sent her six-year-old daughter, Lylee, to live with her mom in Texas, and CPS...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: November 10, 2021
“Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.” (Isaiah 49:15)
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: November 10, 2021
WHEN REVEREND RILEY PALMER WAS PREPARING to plant Adopted Church west of Spokane, he felt the Lord calling him to be a part of local homeless...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: November 10, 2021
Every day, we get glimpses into people's stories, and often we get to walk alongside men and women for a season... but only occasionally do we get...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: November 4, 2021
You may have heard us say we’re not just a soup kitchen, and while that is certainly true, it is also true that so much of what we do begins with a...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: October 28, 2021
Author’s Note: From my earliest days at UGM, I have wanted to follow someone all the way through the LIFE Recovery Program, interviewing him or her...
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Union Gospel Mission: October 21, 2021
Testimony written and read by Dawn Lange at a 2021 phase promotion event. As my DOC officer signs the papers to release me to treatment [a non-UGM...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: October 14, 2021
Written by Heather Pollock, UGM Women’s Recovery alumna and former UGM employee. Stories. Everyone has one. My story with Union Gospel Mission begins...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: October 7, 2021
A false narrative is being promoted that pits two groups against each other on the subject of homelessness in Spokane.
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: September 30, 2021
Written and read by Talia, UGM Resident, at a phase promotion event, August 2021. When I was a little girl, I would look out my window at night and...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: September 23, 2021
“Meth makes you really fidgety, hyper-focused on the smallest things. So, I picked at my face when I was using...and I gave myself sepsis.” Tyler was...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: September 16, 2021
Dirty. Drug addicted. Soup kitchen. Those were descriptors Scott McCall had in mind about homeless shelters before his uncle helped persuade him to...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: September 8, 2021
“I was brought up in a family of musicians and my dad was the smartest man I’ve ever known, a philosopher.” Johanna is well spoken, educated and...
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Union Gospel Mission: September 8, 2021
UGM is more than a shelter. Deep at the root of everything we do—from creating a warm welcome to helping people heal, thrive and get back to...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: September 8, 2021
“God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:27) At UGM, we believe every...
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Union Gospel Mission: September 2, 2021
Spoken by UGM resident Alexis at a phase celebration event, August 2021 “I spent the better part of ten years living for myself: existing in...
