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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: September 12, 2024
What Camp Sponsorships Provide This summer, friends like you helped provide a safe, loving environment for underprivileged children in our community....
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As Mental Awareness month comes to an end this May, we'd like to share about the recent UGM Connect in Coeur d’Alene. We're grateful for the...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: March 27, 2024
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.” Ephesians 2:10 Friends, I don’t know if your garage or shop looks like mine,...
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Union Gospel Mission: March 13, 2024
Those who enter our Life Recovery program walk the path toward life change, receiving trauma-informed counseling, parenting support, life skills...
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Every summer, about 500 children from Spokane’s low-income neighborhoods are invited by their local church to spend a week at UGM Camp. While UGM...
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UGM's 18-month-long residential recovery program, LIFE Recovery, is designed to help residents find freedom from addiction and other destructive...
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Jeremy Stevens, LC Valley Shelter Director: April 19, 2023
UGM is not just shaped by knowledge, experience, and skill, but by the true condition of our hearts - collectively. Excellence in ministry flows from...
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Marisa Flippen, Ministry Brand Specialist: April 13, 2023
Glenda is currently staying at the Crisis Shelter for Women and Children as a Resident Volunteer. Last winter, her life went quickly from bad to...
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Steve Ellisen, Director of Development: April 6, 2023
A favorite athletic event for me has been the relay race. The athletes not only run their leg of the race but also receive, carry, and then hand off...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: March 29, 2023
Kallie is a writer, photographer, and a dedicated mother. Raised in a church environment and given a good education, she is probably not who you’d...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: March 22, 2023
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power God uses to save everyone who believes.” (Romans 1:16a) Here at the Mission, we teach...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: December 21, 2022
Imagine placing your greatest treasure—a treasure on which the fate of the world rests—into the hands of someone who had never had a job, never lived...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: December 7, 2022
“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you.” (Isaiah 66:13) For the past ten years, I’ve been teaching the UGM women’s Bible study. I...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 27, 2022
Sin. What is it and why would a homeless shelter insist on talking about it? Sin is the divergence from the rules and order designed by God....
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: April 20, 2022
Guest post by UGM Aftercare Coordinator Dennis Roach A mythical story contains elements of fantasy and reality, a blend that sometimes pushes us to a...
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Union Gospel Mission: April 6, 2022
Guest post by UGM Staff Chaplain Sonny Westbrook, originally published March 15, 2016. The celebration of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: March 23, 2022
Since its foundation, Union Gospel Mission has existed to offer rest and nourishment to people coming in off the streets. A hot meal, a warm shower,...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: March 16, 2022
“I came here looking to get out of the desperation and the shame and the pit that I was in.” For 46 years, Ruschell battled the abuse, addiction and...
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Union Gospel Mission: March 15, 2022
We are all so broken. Sin breaks us, not just our relationship with God, but our relationships with each other and with ourselves. Sin even fights...
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Women's LIFE Recovery participant Linda shared this speech at the recent Phase Promotion at UGM's Center for Women and Children. “I sat in a...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 29, 2021
“I’m getting older, and I didn’t want to be that old lady that’s out on the street, looking to get high.” Before coming to UGM, Kerri was staying at...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: April 22, 2021
Caution to the reader: This story contains references to abortion, prostitution and human trafficking. “Sarah, I really want to help you.” Sometimes...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: April 15, 2021
At three years old, Jesse stabbed a kid in the head with a knife.
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 11, 2021
Jesus changed everything. More specifically, Jesus' life, death and resurrection changed everything.
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 1, 2021
As we mentioned in last week’s post, acknowledging the existence of sin implies a particular worldview – one in which God created the world and has...
