Year-End Review

Everything We Say or Do is In the Name of Christ!

In December, we completed our second full year of operation… and what a year it was!  The year 2011 brought transition in leadership, foundational growth, ministry growth, sacrifice, trials and God’s blessings! God worked mightily to provide church and business sponsorships to improve our phone systems, supply functional workstations, computers and office equipment, expand our office space, and print our newsletters.

Love INC Boise depends solely  upon caring and generous financial donations from individuals, church partners, businesses and service clubs. Thanks to these faithful supporters, Love INC Boise issued over 2000 vouchers to  families in need. Clients redeemed vouchers at our Gap Ministries (located in our partner churches) for various goods such as diapers, clothing, household supplies, school supplies, and transportation. We mobilized, trained and equipped church volunteers to perform tasks and jobs which met their needs, and the needs of families in our community.  Volunteers from our various churches gave over 4,400 hours of their time to help people in need.  Finally, Love INC Boise generated over $164,000 worth of goods and ministry services.

Financial support is not the only way that local churches supported Love INC.  Church partnerships are essential to Love INC, and volunteers are its lifeblood.  Many churches demonstrated their commitment by:

• Introducing Love INC to the congregation.
• Hosting Gap Ministries.
• Referring requests for help to Love INC.
• Organizing church members to serve by using their gifts and abilities.
• Accepting referrals for help from the Love INC Clearinghouse to existing ministries.
• Providing Clearinghouse volunteers from their church each year.
• Praying for Love INC, clients, and other partner churches.

Last year, church volunteers served our clients by  providing transportation to appointments; fixing homes in disrepair; cleaning up yards and moving furniture for the elderly; fixing cars; handcrafting scarves, hats, blankets and pillow cases;  and delivering food baskets for Thanksgiving and “Baskets of Blessings” for Christmas. Other  Boise volunteers interested in becoming budget counselors committed one hour a week for one year to the New Hope Budgeting program in Nampa. Having trained budget counselors is an instrumental component in the future development of our own relational ministry.  Love INC Boise is blessed by our supporting partners, and we look forward to what God has for us in 2012!