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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. Your camp sponsorships fostered caring relationships and instilled the confidence of being known...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: July 18, 2024
As we continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Expo ’74, I want to take a look back in time. As a high school student, I heard about how the...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: June 19, 2024
Give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you. (1 Thessalonians 5:18) I’ve always marveled that one of the things God wills for our life...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: May 9, 2024
Preparing for UGM Camp The 2024 UGM Camp season will be here soon, and we are prepping in anticipation of all the children who are about to be...
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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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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: December 20, 2023
“In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overpower it.” (John 1:4-5)...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: September 20, 2023
“But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him.” (Luke 10:33) Although the paths that brought...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: June 21, 2023
“Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.” (Proverbs 4:13) It’s hard to think long term. In today’s culture of...
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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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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: February 1, 2023
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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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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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: September 28, 2022
The articles in our recent newsletter are all about words—words that changed the course of people’s lives, words they want to speak into the lives of...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: June 9, 2022
Sometimes I think of this ministry and all the resources you have provided like the great feast Jesus describes in the gospel of Luke. Because of...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: March 15, 2022
If you’ve been reading this column over the years, you know I think “work” is one of the best four-letter words around.
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: January 14, 2022
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own...
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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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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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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: November 13, 2019
Here at UGM, we talk a lot about the reverberations that go out from one changed life. A mother who becomes the parent her children need affects...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: June 11, 2019
In his book “When Helping Hurts,” Dr. Brian Fikkert explains the far-reaching consequences of defining poverty incorrectly. He likens it to a doctor...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: September 11, 2018
What better phrase to describe one’s life than the one God used to describe David, “a man after my own heart.” What do we know about God’s heart? How...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: September 14, 2017
“Not here, not here – not tiny, bucolic, safe Freeman, where the schools and the store are just about the whole town. Not here.” Those words from...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: June 29, 2017
Every industry develops its own lingo. Shelters and recovery programs are no exception. We talk about “old wounds” and “relapse” and “triggers.” Our...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: May 26, 2017
The recent tension between the City of Spokane and Blessings Under the Bridge actually points to a positive bottom line: Spokane is an extremely...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: October 19, 2016
After 30 years in homeless ministry, you'd think I would have it all figured out, that I could coast along to retirement. I'm chuckling at the...
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Phil Altmeyer, Executive Director: September 16, 2016
Sometimes we are blind. The problem (for most of us) isn’t with the function of our actual eyeballs, the cornea or the retina or the optical nerve....
