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We’re glad you are here! Since 1938 the Union Gospel Mission of Grays Harbor has been working with the Grays Harbor Community to bring real solutions to the Homeless and Hurting.
You will find lots of great information on this site, and ways to be involved in this important work.
Please feel free to call if we can help.
Gary Rowell
Executive Director
We Need Your Help!!!
Christmas is coming and we only have three months to prepare. It is a time of giving, and we know we will have many adults and children coming to our doors for a gift or something special— something to remind them that someone cares. In our last newsletter there was an article about the Christmas needs and many responded with new gifts, money and gift cards. However we are still short meeting the needs. We will need gifts for 250 adults and about a 150 kids. The ages for the children’s gifts are infant to ten years.
Christmas needs include: Hooded sweatshirts, sweatshirts/sweatpants, men’s/women’s jackets, men’s gloves, socks, aftershave, perfume, deodorant, body wash, and shaving cream. We are very short on adult gifts! Also, toys for ages 0 to 10 especially gifts for kids 1–2 years old and 10 year olds as well as wrapping paper. Thanks so much!
Holiday Food Needs: Turkeys, coffee, hams, creamer, yams, eggs, margarine, and sugar.
From the Executive Director
September-October 2011
As I begin thinking about Thanksgiving and all the great times and food that go with it I also think about the many who will be without this year. I remember as a kid the great aromas that came out of the kitchen as our Thanksgiving meal was being prepared. My favorite thing was cornbread dressing.
Today my wife Paula and I have five children, so when Thanksgiving comes so do our kids with their kids, and that makes a bunch. There is lots of noise and guys watching football, and women talking, and kids playing. All these things make for a lot of fun memories.
You and I are fortunate because like me, you probably have a lot of good memories from the past. However many don’t have good memories of holidays. Their memories are of parents that were intoxicated or high on Thanksgiving and other holidays and these times are spent trying to forget.
Those who come to the Mission will be met with the friendly smiles of volunteers and great aromas that they will remember. They will find people who care about them, who share a meal, and give them a good memory.
I want to thank you for making an investment in these lives, it is possible that the meal they receive and the warmth they feel will cause a life to be changed. We have seen it happen many times and you can have a good memory that you had a part in a life being changed.
