19 Oct Union Gospel Mission Believes Seattle is on the brink of a Humanitarian Crisis
Check out the press release I received from the Union Gospel Mission (my neighbor):
Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission expects to serve 167,000 meals from now until December 31st – a 20 percent increase! That is why the 1Meal … 1Hope campaign is so important.
The headlines hurt. Family homelessness increasing. Unemployment at a nine-month high. Economy stalling again. Government cutting back on social services. Where and when will it end? The Mission has already seen an increase in the number of meals served and overnight stays since last year. Now, there will be more people, more meals, and less hope.
That’s where the Mission’s campaign comes in. We will provide meals and hope. 1M1H is the initiative that will help bring comfort and hope to thousands upon thousands – hungry kids, desperate women, homeless men. The Mission is out on the street with them.
“We believe that we are facing a deepening humanitarian crisis. We know the economic facts. And it is precisely because of them that we are as determined as ever to deliver even more than what we have done for 78 years – to do whatever it takes,” said Jeff Lilley, president of Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission. “We know the power of a meal, we know what it is to lose, and regain hope, that is what 1Meal …1Hope is all about.”
1Meal . . . 1Hope Campaign is the initiative that will help the Mission and the community to meet Seattle’s greatest needs. 1 MEAL is about meeting the most basic needs among Seattle’s homeless and hungry. 1 HOPE honors the promise and possibility in someone’s heart, under layers of pain, that we’re able to tend to once basic needs are met.
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