All Found. All Home. All Free. All Loved.
Our 2026 theme is Shalom: All Found. All Home. All Free. All Loved. “For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.” – Luke 15:24 This fall, at the Christian Community Development Association conference, our team heard a song by Common Hymnal called “Shalom.” It was powerful. […]
Who We Are & What We Believe
Here at Love Your Neighbor, we believe Jesus Christ is transforming lives. As we follow Him, we work hard to equip our community to love, serve and connect with dignity. This isn’t just our mission statement. Our faith is what drives us. We partner with churches in our community who share this same desire. Churches […]
¡Hola Holland! Expanding Our Spanish Speaking Life Skills Program
We’re excited to share some big news! Love Your Neighbor is expanding our Spanish Life Skills Program to Holland to better serve the communities of Holland/Zeeland, thanks to a generous grant from the Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area (CFHZ). This expansion brings our proven, transformational model into the hearts of the Holland/Zeeland community, providing […]
Grace: A Love Your Neighbor Value
Grace. All of us want, or sometimes even expect, others to give us grace. But we often find ourselves hesitating to extend that same grace to others, don’t we? When determining our core values here at Love, we knew it would be important to incorporate grace. We knew this because we so often catch ourselves […]
Jodi’s Story
During the 15 years that I worked as an Outreach Director for a local church, I invested a lot in learning how to engage and invite people in our community into church. Our church was passionate and welcoming, and we tried very hard to understand the needs of people living around us. But after 15 […]
A Testimony of Transformation
“I am standing here today a totally different person than who I was when I began the program in April 2022. When I began I was freshly out of a very toxic marriage that lasted 10 years. In that marriage, I had no say in what was coming in or going out financially and was […]
A Letter of Hope
“We came to this program when we were in a hard season of life. I heard about Love your Neighbor through my good friend who was in the program and encouraged me to call. I knew this time around I needed to take steps to find different resources to help us financially as my husband […]
One Year Later: How the Church Moved Through Crisis
The photo above is a from a Love INC Facebook post with a series of God Sightings from the first month of the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown. It has almost been one year since the shutdown due to COVID-19. One year ago, the words pandemic, unprecedented, mask, and so many others were not a regular part […]
Eye of the Storm Part 2
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Eye of The Storm: Part 1
Part of my job at Love INC is recruiting volunteers. One of our biggest volunteer needs is mentors. This is a fancy word we use to describe someone – anyone- who has a heart for Jesus and a heart for others, who is willing to climb down into the hole someone else is in, and […]