About

Four Decades of Community Support Services

Our Mission

We equip our community to love, serve, and connect with dignity.

Click the tabs to learn more about how we embody these values.

LOVE

Love Your Neighbor has a 40-year history of providing community support services in the Hudsonville, Jenison, and Grandville areas.

Formerly an affiliate of Love INC, Love Your Neighbor launched its own nonprofit organization in 2021 to pursue a more localized and interdependent approach to serving our neighbors.

SERVE

We follow Jesus Christ and believe He is transforming all our lives as we work to love, serve, and connect with others in a dignified way.

We are a relational ministry:

  • We work to elevate the dignity of every person we interact with, believing in each person’s humanity.
  • We work out of an asset-based approach, believing every person has something to offer.

We live into our core values of dignity, grace, diligence, openness, and collaboration.

We gather around The Apostle’s Creed and invite churches of all denominations to partner with us and love our neighbors.

CONNECT

We equip our community to love, serve, and connect with dignity by utilizing our community support services. Our top 4 support services we offer are:

Connection Center

This is a starting point for individuals needing help or anyone walking alongside someone seeking help.

Life Skills Program

This is a year-round development program for anyone in our community who is struggling to make ends meet and who wants to shift out of survival mode.

Transportation Ministry

Anyone in our community can access free rides to medical appointments.

Medical Equipment Loan Program

For those in our community who need to borrow medical equipment for free (based on availability).

Our Staff

Leadership Team

Jodi Cole Meyer

Executive Director

Jeanna Raterink

Director of Relational Ministries

Kaitlin Verkaik

Director of Development

Alex Damaska

Director of Operations

Our Team

Carter Damaska

Development Coordinator

Patrick McAvoy

Outback Warehouse Manager

Holly Harvey

Community Engagement Manager

Liv Wilbraham

     Office Receptionist    

Tiffany Louzon

Volunteer Coordinator & Executive Assistant

Cindy Pontier

General Manager

Paige Vanklompenberg

Treasures Shop Manager

Love Your Neighbor logo for Annual Report 2022

Wendy Rios

Outback Shop Manager

Kel Wabeke

Resale Assistant Manager

Alissa Raymond

Resale Assistant Manager

Jeana Anderson

Resale Assistant Manager

Macabe Scholtens

Resale Assistant Manager

Judy Bergman

Finance & Administration Manager

Lana Bush

Resale Assistant Manager

Elizabeth Parrish

Life Skills Program Leader & Connection Center Coordinator

Maya Gudbrandson

Food Pantry Coordinator & Administrative Assistant

Laura VanderPloeg

Life Skills Program Leader

Emile VandenBerg

Life Skills Program Leader & Special Projects Coordinator

Shari Garcia

Life Skills Program Leader

Our Board

Jen Brozowski

Program Director

Tim Steenstra

Retired School Administrator

Lori Grysen

Realtor

Ben Ipema

Finance

Leanna Kermeen

Nursing

Scott Kearney

Consulting

Sandy Bloem-Roskamp

Financial Services

Carrie Rodgers

Pastor

Mary Zoet

Retired Social Worker

Our Volunteers

We thank our 400+ volunteers who are the foundation of our service.