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• About Love INC
  • 2.1: Mission and Core Values
  • 2.2: History
  • 2.3: Ministry Structure
  • 2.4: Love Stories
  • 2.5: Love INC President
  • 2.6: Annual Report
• Poverty in America
  • 3.1: Bible Verses about Poverty
  • 3.2: Poverty Fact Sheets
• Love INC Model
  • 4.1: Overview
  • 4.2: Levels of Service
  • 4.3: Ministry Impact
• Love INC Affiliates
  • 5.1: Affiliate Locations
  • 5.2: How to Start an Affiliate
  • 5.3: Resources to Support Affiliates
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Events
• Get Involved
  • 9.1: Support the Ministry
  • 9.2: The Sound Off for Poverty
• Contact Us

Overview

The church doorstep is a frequent destination for people in need. But most churches alone cannot fully meet the needs of every family living in poverty, disabled individual, senior citizen, single parent, or others who need a helping hand.

Or can they?

Love In the Name of Christ enables churches in a community to coordinate their resources and services so that those in need are not turned away.

As churches join together to show Christ's love to their neighbors, communities see exciting results:

• People in need receive immediate and long-term help.
• Church members use their unique gifts and talents through specific, manageable opportunities to serve others.
• Local churches work together, across denominational lines, modeling unity of the Body of Christ.
• Lives and communities are transformed.

Imagine the difference churches can make by joining with other churches in their community to help those in need. When the Body of Christ works together, the results can be miraculous.

The story of one Love INC affiliate . . .

The challenge: Christian leaders in a Midwest city realized that though their community had many churches, few were working together. Some people in need received help, but others simply cycled from church to church. Few lives improved enough to actually break through poverty.

The solution: Christian leaders in this community formed a Love INC affiliate in order to mobilize its churches to work together. Using the Love INC model, they inventoried the resources of the community including social service agencies, church outreach ministries, and the talents of the people in the pews. Next, they matched those resources with people in need. Then, church members were trained by Love INC to walk alongside people in need with the network of relationships and supportive services that together transform lives.

The impact: Today this Love INC affiliate represents a network of more than 80 churches working in unity to love their neighbors. They are reaching the real needs of more than 7,000 people each year through life skills training, affordable housing, job training, day care, transportation, parenting resources, and more. And through caring relationships they are offering the greatest gift of all: hope.