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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: January 27, 2022
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, former Content and Communications Manager: January 20, 2022
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, former Content and Communications Manager: January 14, 2022
John and Vonnie Tucker have a 61-year legacy of working together to build a strong marriage centered on following God’s call to love their neighbors...
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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...
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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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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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Union Gospel Mission: June 11, 2021
Frank and Barbara Peretti have a rich, full life. Frank is a New York Times best-selling author. Barbara is a watercolor artist.
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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, former Content and Communications Manager: February 18, 2021
“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 Tom...
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Genevieve Gromlich, former Content and Communications Manager: February 11, 2021
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, former Content and Communications Manager: January 28, 2021
"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, former Content and Communications Manager: January 21, 2021
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, former Content and Communications Manager: January 14, 2021
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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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: January 9, 2020
The Union Gospel Mission exists because of an extensive community of people like you. People who recognize that they have been blessed and want to...
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Union Gospel Mission: September 11, 2019
“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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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: September 10, 2019
“We are firm believers in organizations that take the time to change people’s lives.” – Jim Strandy
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: February 20, 2019
“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: January 30, 2019
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: January 24, 2019
...and not always just the people you think. “In the interviewing process for potential staff, I always communicate that if they choose to accept...
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Lynn Yount, UGM Volunteer: January 17, 2019
“It’s not like I’m doing anything special, because I love it so much.” Ask Jenny Gasperino why she volunteers at the Union Gospel Mission, and you’ll...
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Union Gospel Mission: February 27, 2018
Anna Havercroft is our warehouse manager, managing the in-kind donations that come into UGM. As you'll see in her interview below, that is more than...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 21, 2018
Over the past two months, we’ve been talking a lot about partnership – how church and business partners, volunteers and donors are the lifeblood of...
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Union Gospel Mission: February 15, 2018
Work is a key ingredient of the process of ending homelessness one person, one family at a time. And while you’ll find current and former residents...
