Please join us on April 25, 2024 at the Yakima Convention Center for our Evening of Hope! We are proud to bring independent Journalist Michael Shellenberger to Yakima, where he will share insights from his book San Fransicko – a profound investigation into what’s dragged this one-great city into a heartbreaking crisis of homelessness, crime, and human suffering… and the approaches that actually work. 

       Shellenberger’s meticulous and courageous work on this subject and other subjects has resulted in repeated testimony before Congress, regular contribution to numerous national news outlets and has made him a worldwide speaker. Raised by Mennonite parents, Shellenberger embraced Christianity in later adulthood while writing about replacement-religion modern apocalyptic environmentalism. 

       This is a fundraising banquet dinner benefitting the Yakima Union Gospel Mission, so be prepared to experience not only a great speaker, but touching testimonials and learn more about the work that is being done every day on North 1st Street and across the Yakima Valley.