Current Needs
- hot cups
- paper bowls
- healthy, individually-wrapped snack choices, such as string cheese, single-serving yogurt, Lunchables, Cup-a-Soup, meat and cheese/cracker snack packs
Your donated items help stretch our resources and let our guests and their children know that they are valued and loved. Current needs change often. Please watch our Facebook page for our updated current needs. Please bring (only) these and Facebook-requested items to the front porch of the KentHOPE Emergency Shelter at 9009 Canyon Drive, Kent 98030. Please ring the bell if you’d like a receipt. All other donations, such as furnishings and clothing, may be taken to the Mission’s Distribution Center.
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KentHOPE is Hiring
KentHOPE has reached another all-time high, with 50+ women and children in the building! We're so thankful for the capable and loving team at KentHOPE. Their heart to serve shines through, despite the fact they are currently working at about a 50% full staffing level! If you are interested in joining our team and partnering with God to bring the love of Jesus and hope for a new life to women and children, apply HERE. |
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New KentHOPE Cafe
The newly opened KentHOPE Cafe provides a community space for guests and volunteers to mingle, and for kids to come for after-school snacks. Located in Apartment #5, the cafe is stocked with healthy snacks and drinks and remains open from 6:30am to 4:30pm every day. Volunteers may sign up to restock snacks and socialize with our guests over a cup of coffee, a puzzle, board games, cards, a movie, and more. If you’re interested in serving in this way, sign up HERE to choose a date and time that works for you.
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Your Gift Transforms Lives
KentHOPE is the front line and first point of interaction for women and their children who are coming in from the streets looking for resources, emergency shelter, recovery programs, and long-term housing opportunities. We demonstrate the love of Jesus in tangible ways to our neighbors, and we do so in partnership with many others in our community.
It costs $1,773 per month for one woman to receive the love, care, and practical help to meet her urgent needs through our program. We are currently serving 51 overnight homeless guests per day: 38 women and children in the Enhanced Shelter Program, and 13 women and children in our Link Work and Education Program.
Please consider giving a financial gift today to help us meet our program needs and offer resources to all these women and their children. Thank you and God bless you!
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If you prefer, mail your check written to:
Seattle's Union Gospel Mission
KentHOPE c/o UGM
P. O. Box 202
Seattle, WA 98111
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Thanks to Recent Supporters
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Erin and Ashley's food truck, Wich Came First, raised $500 for KentHOPE at their February 6th fundraiser. Be sure to look for their food truck on Scenic Hill at 604 Van De Vanter Avenue, in Kent.
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Kingdom Worship Family Center International donated 500 lbs. of fresh and canned food.
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James Connell and Sara Kuykendall collected $2,000 from fellow paramedics to purchase and donate 470 lbs. of food, and they donated a check for the balance of $657. This is the fifth year Medic One has donated food to KentHOPE!
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Roxie, Rosie, and Jason made sausage noodle casseroles, with salad and garlic bread. They also brought pizzas, breakfast casseroles, and cinnamon bread for several meals.
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Members of Faith Church of Kent and the Faith Feeds Families Ministry donated ingredients and cooked 10 meals this month to freeze and later be served by KentHOPE staff.
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Megan Morgan organizes Faith Church members (adults and children) to donate items, and assemble, decorate, and deliver gift bags for our guests every month.
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More Things to Say Thank You For
- Megan Finlick and Victoria Hurlock replaced broken appliances in the KentHOPE cafe.
- Calvary Chapel South donated tables for the new cafe.
- New volunteers Katy, Jen and Halien made and served our guests soft tacos with all the fixings for dinner.
- The Nguyen family from Project Feast delivered a yummy meal and a box of fresh pears.
- Olivia Yuhashi, owner of LiV's Table, prepared and delivered a huge meal and donated other food items.
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We depend on volunteers and local organizations to provide our guests three healthy meals a day. You may sign up online to prepare a meal at home for 30 people, and either bring it to serve or drop off for our staff to serve. Thank you and God bless you!
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