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The Road Back
90 Days of Health, Hope, and Renewal
Starting June 1, Gareth Keown, MSML, CEO of City Union Mission, invites the community to join a 90-day journey focused on health, leadership, recovery, faith, resilience, and hope. This journey is personal, but it also reflects the broader mission of City Union Mission: helping men, women, and families find their way back from crisis, homelessness, instability, and hardship. Over 90 days, Gareth will share honest thoughts on his personal and organizational health, homelessness, nonprofit leadership, burnout, recovery, Kansas City, and what it really takes to care for a city.
This won’t be polished. It won’t be filtered. It will be real. Join the journey. Pray with us. Share the story. Help bring hope to Kansas City.
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Days 1–10: Honest Assessments
In this introduction, Gareth Keown shares why he’s starting this 90-day journey and why it matters for City Union Mission, Kansas City, and anyone who is on their own road back.
In recent months, Gareth has taken on the challenge of leading a 102-year-old Mission through tough times. He’s also faced the honest truth that his own health isn’t where it should be.
The Road Back is about choosing to begin again.
It’s about being honest, taking the next step, and staying committed to rebuilding—personally, as an organization, and as a community.
Follow the 90-day journey and invite someone to join you.
Days 11–20: Health, Stewardship, and Mission
Days 21–30: Organizational Diagnosis
Days 31–40: Kansas City and Homelessness
Days 41–50: Nonprofit Sector and Leadership
Days 51–60: The Turnaround Middle
Days 61–70: Strengthening the Mission
Days 71–80: Renewal and Resolve
Days 81–90: Commissioning the Next Season
Why This Journey Matters to City Union Mission
The Road Back is more than just one person’s health journey. It’s a story about the transformation City Union Mission works toward every day. Every person who comes to the Mission is somewhere on a road back.
For some, that road begins with a meal.
For some, it begins with a safe place to sleep.
For some, it begins with recovery.
For some, it begins with prayer, counseling, work, community, or a single moment of hope.
City Union Mission serves people facing poverty, homelessness, crisis, and deep need. The Mission offers care that is practical, personal, and grounded in faith.
The themes of this 90-day journey—health, truth, discipline, stewardship, recovery, resilience, and renewal—are closely tied to the Mission’s work.
Rebuilding a life, like improving personal health, takes time.
Lasting change, like organizational health, needs truth and discipline.
Transformation, like a long ride, takes endurance, support, and hope.