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Union Gospel Mission: October 16, 2019 at 3:32 PM
Editor’s Note: Pastor John Repsold, whose downtown Spokane church Mosaic Fellowship includes ministry to people experiencing homelessness, presented...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: October 9, 2019 at 2:02 PM
I wanted to title this post, "Why you (and not the government) are the answer to homelessness," but my web specialist says 50 characters is my limit.
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: September 19, 2019 at 2:22 PM
“If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say...
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Union Gospel Mission: May 22, 2019 at 9:06 AM
Editor's note: In addition to being a wife, mother of eight children, a staff member with Cru, and a graduate student, Marchauna Rodgers is a...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 27, 2019 at 9:54 AM
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 ...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: December 11, 2018 at 2:36 PM
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...
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Union Gospel Mission: November 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM
By Diane Hutton, Director, Crisis Shelter for Women and Children - Women often come into the shelter for the first time very fearful, broken and...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: October 31, 2018 at 1:18 PM
Caleb Unruh is not your typical used car salesman, for several reasons. His background, for one: When it became clear that his initial dream of being...
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Union Gospel Mission: October 9, 2018 at 4:48 PM
Editor's note: For World Homeless Day, 10.10.18, we’re turning the keyboard over to a few of our current and former residents. Who better to explain...
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Union Gospel Mission: September 27, 2018 at 2:36 PM
Matt Lewis has worked with the guests at the Men’s Shelter a little more than a year – first as a resident advisor and now as day desk supervisor....
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: September 11, 2018 at 2:16 PM
“All my needs were met when I got here. The food, the shelter, and the fellowship. … I tried to do it on my own, and I couldn’t do it.” - Mike Mike...
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Union Gospel Mission: August 29, 2018 at 11:24 AM
Anne Graves’ working world is black and white. Well, not in the sense that she doesn’t enjoy color – her wardrobe suggests quite the opposite. But...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: August 16, 2018 at 3:48 PM
In the autumn of 1951, a group of businessmen from Spokane attended a dinner hosted by Albert Arend, where they heard testimony from a former...
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Union Gospel Mission: March 27, 2018 at 2:32 PM
As a regular volunteer at the Crisis Shelter, Ron noticed a pattern in many of the homeless women and children he served: Dad wasn’t in the picture....
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Union Gospel Mission: October 13, 2017 at 12:01 PM
Perhaps you saw one of our volunteers holding a sign that said #EndHomelessness or Homeless Human on World Homeless Day. And you’re wondering just...
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Merrily Roe, former staff writer: February 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM
By Merrily Brast, Staff Writer "Each and every one of you have the ability to make a profound and beautiful difference in the lives of somebody that...
