Our Local Partners
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Compass Housing Alliance
Compass House is a leading provider of essential services and affordable housing in the South Lake Union neighborhood. We have developed a strong connection with this community, and lovingly connect with the children and families living there through a variety of ways: tutoring buddies, Café Club on Wednesdays, and summer programs.
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Emerald City Music
Emerald City Music (ECM) is the Pacific Northwest home for eclectic, intimate, and vibrant classical chamber music experiences. Deemed "the beacon for the casual-classical movement" (CityArts), ECM hosts world-renowned musicians in unique concert experiences in our South Lake Union home venue, 415 Westlake.
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Fred Hutch | Behnke Family House
Behnke Family House is a home-away-from-home for patients and families visiting Seattle for cancer treatment, located within blocks of Fred Hutch outpatient clinic in South Lake Union. On 4th Sundays, a group from Union prepares a warm brunch and serves it to the families while spending time with them.
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Immanuel Community Services
Immanuel Community Services’ mission is to alleviate the effects of poverty, hunger, homelessness and addition by providing community-based services to those in need. We support their mission by packing sack lunches for the hygiene center, cooking and serving warm meals during the week, and repackaging food for the food bank.
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Lowell Elementary School
Lowell Elementary School is located in the heart of Seattle and is the school that children in South Lake Union attend. As a school with limited resources and many low-income and housing insecure families, Lowell relies on community partners to complete maintenance and beauty projects, and to be tutoring companions.
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Low Income Housing Institute
LIHI develops, owns and operates housing for the benefit of low-income and homeless people, providing supportive service programs to assist in housing stability and increasing self-sufficiency. While providing meals and donations to the residents, Union also seeks to foster relationships with the staff and residents.
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Matt Talbot Center
The Matt Talbot Center is a recovery treatment center for people experiencing substance use, mental health challenges, and homelessness. Located in Belltown, MTC offers clinical services, holistic care, and hope to individuals ready to work on their recovery.
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New Horizons
Since 1978, New Horizons has chosen to see unhoused young people as our community’s most cherished assets: full of beauty, worth, and dignity. They are working to end homelessness one young person at a time.
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One Parish One Prisoner
One Parish One Prisoner is a ministry imagining what the world would look like if every person releasing from prison had a local community waiting to embrace them. OPOP equips parishes to build supportive pre-release relationships with just one person returning to their community from prison. Union is currently supporting three individuals at different stages of their re-entry.
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Street Youth Ministries
Street Youth Ministries’ mission is to connect and partner with Seattle’s unhoused youth, affirming their inherent worth. Located in the University District, they serve youth and young adults from ages 13-27. Union supports their mission by gathering donations and food that can be distributed to the youth, service projects, and through mentorship.
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University District Food Bank
For over four decades, University District Food Bank has helped prevent hunger in Northeast Seattle neighborhoods by providing a place for families to receive the groceries they need to prepare nutritionally balanced, culturally relevant meals at home. Union supports their mission by sorting, repackaging, and shelving foods.
Our International Partners
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Edén International
Edén is a nonprofit in Antigua, Guatemala that employs and educates adults with disabilities. Eden creates accessible and inclusive jobs for entrepreneurs with disabilities, who craft wellness products using organic essential oils and natural, local ingredients.
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Musalaha
Musalaha is a faith-based organization that teaches, trains and facilitates reconciliation, mainly between Israelis and Palestinians from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds and international groups, based on biblical principles of reconciliation.
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Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana de Barranquilla
Primera Iglesia is our sister church located in Barranquilla, Colombia. We have deep ties to this congregation, supporting each other through prayer, fellowship, and worship.
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Thembalethu Care Organisation
Thembalethu Care Organization proves free holistic home-based hospice care and support for orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa, as well as empowering the community with HIV education.
