Receiving Help Around the Clock
In October of 2022 Love Your Neighbor opened the Emergency Food Pantry in partnership with the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department, the Hudsonville-Jenison Community Foundation, Hoonhorst Concrete, River City Flooring, Huizens Locksmith, and Miedema Metal Building Systems. Often, under-resourced families will come to the attention of the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department, or the Crisis Intervention Team […]
Celebrating a Loan Program Resource for Life Skills Families
We are so fortunate for the opportunity to launch a loan program to relieve Life Skills participants of high interest rates and overwhelming debt. Loans are applicable to participants in our Life Skills Program, once they complete their eight-week financial literacy program where participants learn budgeting and money management, and after they are paired with […]
Accessible Housing: Helping Our Community With Accessible Housing
Launch Announcement
Dear Friend of Love INC, For 37 years, Christ followers in Hudsonville, Jenison and Grandville have joined together as Love In the Name of Christ to show Jesus’ love to our community. During that time, this organization has changed many times: taking on new ministries, moving boundaries, hiring new staff, improving programs, constructing new buildings, […]
What You Need to Know about Love’s Treasures
Did you know that anything that is donated to Love INC is a huge blessing to the whole community? It’s true! The shoppes make up about 55% of the revenue for Love INC. This means that without the shoppes and our loyal customers, Love INC would only be able to do 45% of the ministry […]
What If The Church…
What if the Church combined efforts to create a safe place for people to go for help during COVID-19? They did. Love INC in Hudsonville was founded over 40 years ago by a man who didn’t understand how there could still be people in need when there were so many churches present. By creating a […]
Welcome Jodi Cole Meyer!
“Move Into The Neighborhood” “The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like father, like Son, Generous inside and out, true from start to finish.” John 1:14 The Message I’m new to Love INC — new to the community of folks […]
Simply Giving Back to Our Neighbors
As we enter into the season of giving we have been given the perfect opportunity to fight local hunger! Meijer Simply Give is a campaign that provides funds for local food pantries. Meijer Simply Give program has been around since November 2008, and has donated over $50 million to food pantries to date. According […]
Another HayDay 5K in the Books!
This past Saturday, October 12, Love In the Name of Christ hosted our third annual HayDay 5K. This event is in partnership with the City of Hudsonville and Hudsonville Chamber of Commerce’s Urban HayDay, a free fall festival. This year we had 206 participants signed up to RUN WITH LOVE in our HayDay 5k. This […]
Spreading the Love with Love Restored
In the Spring of 2013 a new volunteer at Love In the Name of Christ brought new life to our campus. Pam Steenstra saw great potential in many of the pieces we were selling in Love’s Treasures and the Outback Resale Shoppe. Her love for restoring furniture and making it into something beautiful overtook her […]