Archive for 'Relational Ministry'

Building Relationships

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One of the goals of Relational Ministry is for participants to build relationships with not only their mentor but also with their fellow participants.  Last Thursday Love INC witnessed the start of a beautiful relationship starting to form.

“Sally” started Relational Ministry in December. Sally does not have a means of transportation so a Love INC volunteer picks her up each week to get to class.  Last Thursday she asked a Love INC staff member if there was a way to ...

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Christmas Bazaar – Pay it Forward

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Love INC held a Christmas Bazaar on December 10th.  The mission of the Christmas Bazaar was to provide Love INC clients with an opportunity to sell goods and services to make extra money for their families.   One participant was blessed abundantly when people purchased most of the crafts she had made.  She gained more than extra cash; she gained the opportunity to bless others with some of the money ...

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Love Links

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Love INC started a new ministry for Relational Ministry clients called Love Links a few months ago.  In Love Links, clients can highlight their skills on the Love INC website so people in the community can hire them or buy a product they sell.

The program has proven itself successful thus far!  One of the clients has recently found a side job cleaning a community members house.  This gave the client much needed confidence to pursue her cleaning business, and the ...

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God’s Forgiveness

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God is definitely at work at Love INC in our Relational Ministry program. A couple came in to the office hoping to receive help with a housing situation. The woman was receiving housing assistance through Housing Authority, but her request to add her spouse to her housing voucher was denied due to poor decisions in his past.  After Love INC wrote a letter on their behalf, Housing Authority stipulated that he had to take an anger management class in order to ...

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Housing Miracle

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God’s hand has been at work at Love INC and Relational Ministry, transforming hearts and lives, bringing people together and building up his kingdom. Many lives have been touched and one client in Relational Ministry is no exception. After being on a housing waiting list for several years and living in more temporary housing, one Relational Ministry client was shocked to receive a letter informing her that her housing would be up by the end of the month. For reasons unknown to her, she had been put ...

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December 2010

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Relational Ministry has been up and rolling since April and lives are being transformed!  One of the clients in the program recently expressed her gratitude.  She is a single mom with two kids and does not have a lot of time for herself.  She expressed, “I find that not only is my money situation better but so it my emotional life.”  Clients participating in the program are starting to bond and help each other out.  One of the goals of Relational Ministry is to provide ...

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Home at Last

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A woman in the shelter has found a new home!  After making incredible personal strides over the course of a year, while living in the shelter, she has now found a place to call home.  For the last several months she has been looking for an affordable place to live, but was having difficulty.  Last week when she was visiting the Love INC office she received a call from a landlord saying she was accepted to move into an apartment.  Tears of joy filled ...

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August 2010

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God will Provide!

At one of our Relational Ministry classes we distributed gas cards and bus passes for those who were on time to class.  A bus pass was given to a woman living in the shelter who had recently given her heart to the Lord. After class she told staff that her monthly bus passes expired that day and she was going to have to buy a bus pass in the morning to get to work.  She knew God would provide, and He ...

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June 2010

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Relational Ministry
Love INC has reached a new level or service with our Relational Ministry program that began in April!  In addition to existing Love INC ministries, clients can now take either a money management or work ready class, as well as meet with a mentor. Clients participating in Relational Ministry are starting to make monumental strives towards better spending habits and job skills.  One such example is ‘Sally,’ a woman on limited income who was coming up short every month on ...

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