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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Feb 8, 2023 10:49:04 AM
The cycle of homelessness, abuse, and addiction is not halted simply with the provision of a roof and four walls. Although food and housing are...
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While 2022 was a year of exciting new partnerships and profound love and sacrifice in our community, I sit at my desk this New Year and marvel at the
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Jan 18, 2023 8:43:35 AM
At UGM, we are rich in partnership. Year after year, the Inland Northwest community partners with the Mission to create life-changing opportunities...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Jan 12, 2023 10:34:29 AM
You’ve heard it said before: UGM would not be what it is without people like you investing their unique giftings and resources to reach our neighbors...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Jan 6, 2023 9:52:05 AM
Work is a key ingredient in the effort to break the cycle of homelessness, abuse, and addiction. And while you’ll find current and former residents...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Dec 15, 2022 8:24:07 AM
The snow has come, the days are nearly at their shortest, and Christmas is right around the corner. But what is Christmas if you’re homeless? Is...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Nov 30, 2022 8:27:40 AM
“We tell people we’re not here to perform; we’re here to worship,” says His Song president Joel DeVries. His Song is a men’s gospel singing group...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Sep 21, 2022 9:00:00 AM
UGM received a remarkable gift when Nurse Practitioner Lorna Schumann joined the Medical Clinics as a volunteer.
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Feb 17, 2022 10:33:50 AM
Guest post by Lynn Yount, former UGM writer. Melissa Ashline has a lot of irons in the fire. She’s a nanny and a businesswoman and a mother of...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Jan 27, 2022 10:13:05 AM
Don "Pepper" and Midge Smock of Coeur d’Alene are humble leaders in the community, encouraging generosity out of their desire to see the gospel go...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Jan 20, 2022 12:52:37 PM
Many of us might think we have nothing in common with a drug addict, or that we have little or nothing to offer someone who has lived a life...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Jan 13, 2022 10:51:09 AM
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...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Jan 6, 2022 11:31:47 AM
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, Content and Communications Manager: Dec 30, 2021 8:20:19 AM
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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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Mar 4, 2021 10:52:12 AM
Ric Rocca and his family own and operate multiple Jimmy John's franchises in the Spokane area. And somehow Ric still finds time to volunteer at UGM.
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Feb 18, 2021 1:39:08 PM
“I know that no matter what I throw at them, they are going to support me and love me and speak truth into my life.” - Laura, UGM Crisis Shelter ...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Feb 11, 2021 2:05:47 PM
In 2020 alone, volunteers saved UGM nearly $2.2M. It is no exaggeration to say that we could not realistically function without our fleet of...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Jan 28, 2021 1:15:00 PM
"I'm sold on it. I tell you I'm sold." Mitchell Long, Chief Executive Officer at Northwest Ob-Gyn, took time out of his busy schedule to sit down...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Jan 21, 2021 11:22:48 AM
At Union Gospel Mission, we value whole-person recovery. This means we believe that in order to become a God-dependent, contributing member of...
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Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager: Jan 14, 2021 12:41:54 PM
2020 was a year for the history books, wasn’t it? We sure are glad you stuck with us through it all. In the end, because of the commitment of our...
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Union Gospel Mission: Sep 11, 2019 9:29:17 AM
“From [Christ] the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: Feb 20, 2019 8:56:04 AM
“I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high...
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Union Gospel Mission: Jan 30, 2019 9:53:07 AM
We talk a lot about the impact of volunteers across our ministries. Here’s a group of partners we don’t often refer to as “volunteers,” but they...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: Jan 24, 2019 2:33:07 PM
...and not always just the people you think. “In the interviewing process for potential staff, I always communicate that if they choose to accept...
