Union Gospel Mission
Union Gospel Mission has been providing hope for the hungry, hurting and homeless since 1940. With 11 facilities placed between downtown Vancouver and the city of Mission, UGM is ideally positioned to help those who need it the most. Employing a full-time staff of approximately 120 and relying on a broad base of loyal volunteers, Union Gospel Mission provides meals, shelter, education, counselling, housing and more to hundreds of people each day.
Canada
Union Gospel Mission offers hope to hungry, hurting and homeless men, women, youth and children in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland of B.C. by sharing and practically demonstrating the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing without discrimination:
* Basic necessities and practical assistance
* Effective recovery programs which offer freedom from addictive lifestyles
* Educational and job readiness programs which equip for successful living
* Outreach programs which provide encouragement, support, counselling, spiritual guidance and referral services, and
* Affordable housing for those in need through our U.G. Housing Society (s)
Our desire is to be a bridge for people striving to regain the basic necessities of life, restore their God-given dignity and hope, empowering them to rejoin the community as full and active participants.
Union Gospel Mission Believes . . .
1. The Holy Scriptures as originally given by God, divinely inspired, infallible, entirely trustworthy, and the only supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct;
2. One God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit;
3. Our Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, His virgin birth, His sinless human life, His divine miracles, His sin-atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension, His mediatorial work and His personal return in power and glory;
4. The salvation of lost and sinful man through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ by faith (apart from works) and regeneration by the Holy Spirit;
5. The Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the believer is enabled to live a holy life to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ;
6. The unity in the Spirit of all true believers, the church, the Body of Christ;
7. The resurrection of both the saved and the lost, they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
