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Speaker 1: dot Com. I have Pastor Eric joining me, Pastor Pineapple
Speaker 1: from u g M Union Gospel Mission. I'm again everything right.
Speaker 2: Yes, you need Gospel Mission of Sioux Falls.
Speaker 1: And you guys have been around a bit. It's from
Speaker 1: nineteen hundred, is that what you're at?
Speaker 2: Starting nineteen hundred Saint Patrick's Day, So it will be
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five years on Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1: Which again that's sneaking right up. And you're doing some
Speaker 1: cool stuff for your one twenty fifth, aren't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are. We're having a party, So come down
Speaker 2: and join with us, come and hang out, and send
Speaker 2: in some checks to support us. There you go, because
Speaker 2: we definitely need it. We don't take any government money, yeah,
Speaker 2: all donor based. And so we're trying to do a thing.
Speaker 2: We're trying to help people get better and get stable.
Speaker 1: And I've had a chance to do something with you. Guys,
Speaker 1: every time I've ever worked with you, I've been so impressed.
Speaker 1: It's a great organization, wonderful people doing wonderful things. And
Speaker 1: there's a reason you've been around one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five years, and you know it's because you have a
Speaker 1: great team of people there.
Speaker 2: We have a great team of people. But not only that,
Speaker 2: it's needed. Yeah, so I would love not to be
Speaker 2: a shelter in this community, but it's needed. And so
Speaker 2: what we want to do is make sure that we're
Speaker 2: loving people good, you know. And so how do you
Speaker 2: bring somebody back from that's hit the bottom, Well, you
Speaker 2: bring them back with love. You love them just right
Speaker 2: where they're at.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, the average person listening right now, how can they help?
Speaker 1: Is it best for people to write a check or
Speaker 1: are you looking for people to come and help or
Speaker 1: you you know, what's the best way for somebody to
Speaker 1: get involved in help?
Speaker 2: But yeah, well, so we love people to come and
Speaker 2: volunteer and get involved and see what we're doing. There's
Speaker 2: so much to do down there. There's closed sorting and
Speaker 2: because we give clothes away to the public, you know,
Speaker 2: you can come down and do volunteerism. You can come
Speaker 2: down and just see what we're doing. Help out in
Speaker 2: the kitchen. You one hundred and forty two thousand meals
Speaker 2: a year through our kitchen. We don't close. We're open
Speaker 2: seven days a week, three meals a day. We don't
Speaker 2: we're not you know, some places closed in town, but
Speaker 2: we don't close. We keep on feeding people. And the
Speaker 2: weekends we feed a lot of people. Six seven hundred
Speaker 2: people during the weekend. It's awesome, you know. So all
Speaker 2: we got food boxes. You can come down on Tuesdays
Speaker 2: and Thursdays from one to four come help pass out
Speaker 2: food to people with need. Like so we did three
Speaker 2: thousand food boxes last month, wow, which is huge, right. So,
Speaker 2: but everything that we do has a little bit of
Speaker 2: cost to it, right, So we get great donations from
Speaker 2: people in our community and things like that, and so
Speaker 2: we're able to do these things. And so we also
Speaker 2: do case management. And if you are nurse, we have
Speaker 2: in Midwest street Medicine that works out of the mission.
Speaker 2: You can join them. There's so much you can do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you're listening and you're going, I would
Speaker 1: like to get involved. I would like to help reach out.
Speaker 1: Talk to the folks at Union Gospel Mission, they'll find
Speaker 1: a good place for you to help. Or if you're saying, boy,
Speaker 1: I just don't have the time, but I could certainly
Speaker 1: write a check to help with the things that they're doing.
Speaker 1: That is very helpful as well. And if they want
Speaker 1: to do that, they find you just go to the
Speaker 1: website or stop it and see it. What's the best way.
Speaker 2: Both come in and see us and take a tour?
Speaker 2: Come to get a tour. It's a cool tour. It's
Speaker 2: a cool tour.
Speaker 1: I was telling him he's coming to the radio station here.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I'll give you the Nickel tour.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take as long. Our our tour is like
Speaker 1: three minutes. There's that, here's this, and well that's it.
Speaker 1: I guess it's less than three minutes.
Speaker 2: Ours is about thirty minutes. Yeah, you'll spend some time
Speaker 2: and there's a lot to see. Lots that we have
Speaker 2: done there in the last five years, and so we've
Speaker 2: really changed some things to make it where we're helping
Speaker 2: people get better and helping people really become stable in
Speaker 2: what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Again, Union Gospel Mission exciting thing. One hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five years, they've been around now one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five years on Saint Patrick's Day. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a big party. Is it on Saint Patrick's Day?
Speaker 2: It is on Saint Patrick's Day. You can go to
Speaker 2: the website and see it. You can get us on
Speaker 2: Facebook too as well. You need jug Suit Falls. But
Speaker 2: it's from like noon to seven and night, and so
Speaker 2: it's a stop in. We're gonna be having people talking
Speaker 2: about how the missions help them throughout their life and
Speaker 2: where they're at now. So we're gonna have some testimonies
Speaker 2: of people saying, here's what's happened from when I was
Speaker 2: homeless and now I'm not homeless and I'm doing better.
Speaker 2: So we'll have people talking about their story. We'll have food,
Speaker 2: so just come down and visit. We'll have cookies. So
Speaker 2: you had me at cookies, I know, right, just come
Speaker 2: on in and have a cookie. But the best thing
Speaker 2: is to do because a lot of people go, I
Speaker 2: didn't realize that the mission does all this, and so
Speaker 2: we do all this. We keep on doing the thing
Speaker 2: in Suit Falls to help the people that need help.
Speaker 2: And we're not giving a handout, we're giving a hand up,
Speaker 2: So we're really helping people get better and stable. We
Speaker 2: put three hundred and sixty six people in housing last year.
Speaker 2: Amazing and no recipt of divisions. They're not getting out,
Speaker 2: they're staying in the system. They're staying as taxpayers. Now
Speaker 2: they have jobs, they're doing the thing. And so that's
Speaker 2: just last year. Yeah, and so we keep on doing this,
Speaker 2: We keep on working with people. But the biggest thing,
Speaker 2: it really costs money to do this. So if anybody's
Speaker 2: out there willing to donate, you know, a million dollars
Speaker 2: or two million or even five bucks.
Speaker 1: You know what I said, You got me at closer there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I mean, but it's anything really, Like you
Speaker 2: see the guys that downtown holding signs. Anything does help,
Speaker 2: and anything does. Your time helps, your prayers help, your
Speaker 2: your thoughts help. You're like, hey, tell a friend about us. Yeah,
Speaker 2: those things help. Bring clothes to the mission and we
Speaker 2: can use all. Remember go, summer's coming, so give us.
Speaker 2: Get all your winter clothes, stick them in a box
Speaker 2: and bring them to us. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely again. One hundred and twenty five years. Union
Speaker 1: Gospel Mission in Siouot Falls Pastor Pineapple Pastor.
Speaker 2: Eric, thank you for joining us, sir, Hey, thank you
Speaker 2: really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: These guys are wonderful and they do some great things.
Speaker 1: If you get a chance, stop down on Saint Patrick's
Speaker 1: Day for their one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to throw a link to all the details
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