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H.O.P.E.
UGM’s Center for Women & Children provides a safe and healing environment where women are set free from the bondage of addictions and abusive relationships. It is a place where women are given...
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Daughters of the King
Darleen Haff, Anjelique Mader, Chantell White, Cheryl Langton, Carlene Wright, and Debi Pauletto You remember the plot of The Princess Bride? A lowly stable boy falls in love with the beautiful...
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Telling the truth
Illustration: writers-block_ellie A few weeks ago, I had my worst case of writer’s block ever. I asked for prayer from pretty much everyone I knew, and many of you were kind enough to pray for me. I’m...
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Ashes to Beauty
A poem by Dani, pictured above, one of the residents at the UGM Center for Women & Children in Coeur d’Alene (Listen to Dani read “Ashes to Beauty.” Dani – Full Poem) I’m the man on the...
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The ripple effect
When a woman makes the decision to commit to UGM’s long-term Recovery, the impact of her decision is far reaching. That decision impacts her children, the school, and the whole community! As the...
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Hypocrite
My teenage daughters told me the other day that they grew up thinking “hypocrite” was a bad word, akin to calling someone a curse word. Funny how our inner thoughts are conveyed without us realizing...
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Show me your ways
On September 6, 2012, the UGM Center for Women & Children welcomed its first guests. One year later, the Center is home to 52 women and children and has residents engaged in all four phases of the...
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Chantell: the Choice to Change
Chantell and daughter, Adreana “I was in the bottom of a tin can, and I couldn’t claw my way up. It was dark. It was dirty, and I didn’t feel any value. I felt unreachable.” – Chantell Chantell grew up...
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Wednesdays
Every Wednesday morning at the UGM Center for Women and Children in Couer d’ Alene, the other volunteers and I eagerly wait for new women to show up at the front door of the rescue center and take...
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Meet Lenore
From my perspective, Lenore McDonald is a volunteer extraordinaire. She says it was only by an act of God that she came to serve at the Union Gospel Mission Center Women and Children in Coeur d’Alene....
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