Making Music
 | Frank began to wonder if some of the men in the recovery program might be interested in learning to play the guitar. Learn More> |
After Release
 | Over 17,700 men and women are behind bars in Washington’s thirteen state prisons. The Spokane County Jail houses another 700 to 800 on any given day. Well over 90 percent of these individuals will be released at some point. And then what? Learn More> |
Band of Brothers
 | Band of brothers. From Shakespeare to Stephen Ambrose, the term has been used to describe men in battle – the camaraderie built fighting side by side against a common enemy. Here, the term is used to describe a slightly different kind of brotherhood. Learn More> |
Self Evaluation
 | One of the most challenging, but also most rewarding, aspects of the Mission’s recovery programs is called the self-evaluation process, where residents and staff alike are asked to go in front of their peers to examine a specific behavior. Learn More> |
Feature: Under the Surface
 | Twenty months ago, Ron walked into the Union Gospel Mission with a two-foot, bleached Mohawk, a ten-gauge lip ring and a thirty-year veneer on a wounded child’s heart. Learn More> |
The Prodigal
 | A t-shaped scar over Clifford Ellenwood’s right eye serves as testament to his reckless drinking days and the night a beer bottle smashed into his face. “I wandered, and I was lost. I was very, very lost.” Learn More> |
The Party's Over
 | Eddie faced life through the skewed perspective of drug and alcohol addiction for the better part of 18 years, and his life had begun to resemble the wreckage of a particularly bad morning after. Learn More> |
Hospitality to the Homeless
 | Steve oversees the preparation of five to six hundred meals a day at the Union Gospel Mission. At six-feet and 258 solid pounds, his presence is authoritative, but his demeanor is surprisingly gentle. Hospitality to the homeless is an interesting career choice for a man whose life -- until a few years ago -- was characterized by violent hostility. Learn More> |
Road to a Dream
 | When Chris McNeil was sleeping under an abandoned gazebo, the road to his dream of becoming a commercial truck driver like his dad seemed impossibly long. Now that he has realized that dream, he sees it as a series of small steps: Learn More> |
God & War
 | James Escobar found God in the middle of Iraq. A navy chaplain “made a beeline” toward him as he came into base camp after 30 days of continuous combat operations. Learn More> |
