An act of God shakes up fundraising at Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

In the words of UGM Executive Director Herb Pfiffner, “there was definitely a God thing going on.”

Being that it’s a faith-based organization, UGM makes no bones about the role of God in all its work. And no one doubts that there was an extra dose of divine intervention in the case of the retrofit and the campaign that paid for it. But there’s also no denying that fundraising for the project took a whole lot of earth-based hard work.