About Love Your Neighbor

We’re celebrating four decades of community support services.

For over 40 years, Love Your Neighbor has empowered West Michigan communities with dignity-driven support—building relationships, offering practical services, and walking alongside individuals and families toward lasting transformation.

Our Mission

Following Jesus Christ, who transforms lives, we equip our community to love, serve and connect with dignity.

LOVE.

40 years. Thousands of stories. One mission: love your neighbor.

For decades, we’ve been walking alongside families in Hudsonville, Jenison, and Grandville—offering hope, help, and community.

In 2021, we launched a bold new chapter as our own nonprofit, creating a hyper-local, deeply connected approach to loving our neighbors well.

SERVE.

We build relationships. God changes lives.

We’re not about handouts. We’re about dignity, hope, and real transformation.

We are a relational ministry:


  • Every person matters. Every story matters.

  • Everyone carries gifts. We help them shine.

Our values—dignity, grace, diligence, openness, and collaboration—aren’t just ideals on paper. They’re how we show up every single day.

CONNECT.

Real help. Real relationships. Real change.

Here’s where love meets action:

  • Connection Center: Your first stop for help—or for helping someone else.
  • Life Skills Program: A year-round program to move from surviving to thriving.
  • Transportation Service: Need a ride to a medical appointment? We’ve got you.
  • Medical Equipment Loan Program: Access essential equipment—for free, when you need it most.

Love Your Neighbor works in partnership with a diverse group of local churches that share our belief in Christ as our savior and use the Apostles’ Creed as our unifying statement of faith.

Our Service Areas

Select the region that you live in to view the services that are available in your area!

Service Area Map

Select a region on the map to see which services are available there!

Service Area Map
Hudsonville Grandville Jenison Holland Zeeland

Hudsonville

  • Connection Center
  • Main campus
  • Donation center
  • Resale shops
  • Main office
  • Life Skills Program (English)
  • Life Skills Program (Spanish)
  • Medical loans closet
  • Loan program for hospital beds and lift chairs
  • Medical transportation
  • LYN emergency food pantry (in Hudsonville)
  • Transitional housing (in Hudsonville)*

* indicates resource that is only available to Life Skills Program participants.

Grandville

  • Connection Center
  • Life Skills Program (English)
  • Life Skills Program (Spanish, in Hudsonville)
  • Medical loans closet
  • Loan program for hospital beds and lift chairs
  • Medical transportation
  • Fellowship CRC pantry
  • LYN emergency food pantry (in Hudsonville)
  • Transitional housing (in Hudsonville)*

* indicates resource that is only available to Life Skills Program participants.

Jenison

  • Connection Center
  • Life Skills Program (English)
  • Life Skills Program (Spanish, in Hudsonville)
  • Medical loans closet
  • Loan program for hospital beds and lift chairs
  • Medical transportation
  • LYN emergency food pantry (in Hudsonville)
  • Transitional housing (in Hudsonville)*

* indicates resource that is only available to Life Skills Program participants.

Holland

  • Connection Center
  • Life Skills Program (Spanish)
  • LYN emergency food pantry (in Hudsonville)
  • Transitional housing (in Hudsonville)*

* indicates resource that is only available to Life Skills Program participants.

Zeeland

  • Connection Center
  • Life Skills Program (English, in Hudsonville)
  • Life Skills Program (Spanish, in Hudsonville or Holland)
  • LYN emergency food pantry (in Hudsonville)
  • Transitional housing (in Hudsonville)*

* indicates resource that is only available to Life Skills Program participants.

Meet the Team

Get to know our team at Love Your Neighbor!

Jodi Cole Meyer

Executive Director

Dave Nyitray

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Kaitlin Verkaik

Director of Development

Jeanna Raterink

Director of Relational Ministries

Cindy Pontier

Director of Resale Operations

Judy Bergman

Manager of Finance & Administration

Patrick McAvoy

Facilities General Manager

Liv Wilbraham

Logistics Manager

Peter Feliciano

Warehouse Manager

Tiffany Louzon

Executive Assistant & Volunteer Coordinator

Carter Damaska

Development Coordinator

Emile VandenBerg

Community Engagement Manager

Andrea Montesinos

Front Desk Receptionist

Elizabeth Parrish

Connection Center Coordinator

Miguel Velasco

Life Skills Program Leader & Aftercare Coordinator

Tiffany Louzon

Life Skills Program Leader

Kristyn Hill

Life Skills Program Leader

Dan Buck

Life Skills Program Leader

Linnea Ekin

Food Pantry Coordinator

Wendy Rios

Outback Shop Manager

Alissa Raymond

Treasures Shop Manager

Jeana Anderson

Assistant Store Manager

Lana Bush

Assistant Store Manager

David Kremers

Assistant Store Manager

Explore the full story of our mission in action—discover meaningful outcomes, real stories, and community impact in our latest Impact Report.

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