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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: so you can come down and do volunteerism. You can
Speaker 2: come down and just see what we're doing. Help out
Speaker 2: in the kitchen. We do one hundred and forty two
Speaker 2: thousand meals a year through our kitchen. We don't close.
Speaker 2: We're open seven days a week, three meals a day.
Speaker 2: We don't we're not you know, some places closed in town,
Speaker 2: but we don't close. We keep on feeding people in
Speaker 2: the weekends. We feed a lot of people, six seven
Speaker 2: hundred people during the weekend. And it's awesome, you know.
Speaker 2: So all we got food boxes. You can come down
Speaker 2: on Tuesdays and Thursdays from one to four come help
Speaker 2: pass out food to people with neat like. So we
Speaker 2: did three 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
Speaker 1: out talk to the folks at Union Gospel. 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 in to the tour.
Speaker 1: It's a cool tour.
Speaker 2: It's a cool tour.
Speaker 1: And I was telling him he's coming to the radio
Speaker 1: station here. I was like, well, I'll give you the
Speaker 1: Nickel tour. It doesn't take as long our our tour
Speaker 1: is like three minutes. There's that, here's this, and well
Speaker 1: that's it. I guess it's less than three minutes.
Speaker 2: Ours is about thirty minutes. Yeah, you will spend some
Speaker 2: time and there's a lot to see. Lots that we
Speaker 2: have done there in the last five years, and so
Speaker 2: we've really changed some things to make it where we're
Speaker 2: helping people get better and helping people really become stable
Speaker 2: in 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 going
Speaker 1: to have a big party. Is it on Saint Patrick's Day?
Speaker 2: It is on Saint Patrick's Day. And go to the
Speaker 2: website and see it. You can get us on Facebook
Speaker 2: two as well. You need you GM suit Falls. But
Speaker 2: it's from like noon to seven to 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 cookies, I know, right, Just come on
Speaker 2: in and have a cookie. But the best thing is
Speaker 2: to do because a lot of people go, I didn't
Speaker 2: realize that the Mission does all this, and so we
Speaker 2: do all this. We keep on doing the thing in
Speaker 2: Suit Falls to help the people that need help. And
Speaker 2: 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: That's amazing, and no receipt of vision. So they're not
Speaker 2: getting out, they're staying in the system. They're staying as taxpayers.
Speaker 2: Now they have jobs, they're doing the thing. And so
Speaker 2: that's just last year. Yeah, and so we keep on
Speaker 2: doing this, We keep on working with people. But the
Speaker 2: biggest thing, it really costs money to do this. So
Speaker 2: if anybody's out there willing to donate, you know, a
Speaker 2: million dollars or two million or even five bucks.
Speaker 1: You know what I said, You got me 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.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely again. One hundred and twenty five years
Speaker 1: Union Gospel Mission in Siouo Falls Pastor Pineapple Pastor Eric,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us, sir.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you. You 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
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