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Addressing Short Term Needs with a Long Term Plan
In This Issue Love INC to Receive the
Community Impact Award for Distinguished Services
Together, Building Relationships for Transformed Lives In the
Name of Christ
Lace Up With Love
Current Need
Upcoming Events
Addressing Short Term Needs with a Long Term Plan
Clackamas County
Giving thanks for all you do for those in need In the Name of
Christ,with deepest joy and gratitude, Love INC
Love INC to Receive the Community Impact
Award for Distinguished Services
A Home for ShalomFrom blueprint to reality, a new ware-house
space for the furniture ministry of Zoar Lutheran Church in Canby
is breaking ground. For years this vi-brant partner of Love INC has
been operating out of an historic home on the corner lot of their
property. Here the tireless team led by Bob and Mary Eastman and
their band of servants from Zoar and other congregations, served
178 families in 2014, providing furniture, linens and household
goods. Twice a week families pull up to the church to collect a
dresser for clothes that have been in boxes, or beds for the family
transitioning out of a shelter into a place of their own, throw in
blankets and pans for cooking, and now it feels like home.
The new space will provide roll up doors for covered access as
well as ease in loading and unloading. It has been a running joke
among the volunteers that the item requested by the next family
will be the piece in the back be-hind the 3 mattresses, dresser and
sofa.
With the added space, furniture pieces can be stationed and more
easily retrieved. Floor to ceiling racks will allow for more order
and provide better inventory control, bedding by sizes and
household items by type. Through church giving, fundraising and
individual donations this dream is becom-ing a reality. The new
space will be a marvelous addition to this thriving outreach, but
the heart of the ministry is not the stuff , its the love and grace
that the church volunteers pour into it that makes the diff erence
for the families who come for the items to make a house a home. The
space may change but this is the enduring presence of Jesus Christ
to all who come to be blessed by these warriors of mercy.
Together, Building Relationships for Transformed Lives
In the Name of Christ
Love INC of Clackamas CountyPO Box 2378 Oregon City, OR
97045
503.655.4223
The awards recognize organiza-tions, businesses and individuals
that are making a signifi cant con-tribution to the Clackamas
County community by working to help those who struggle to meet
basic needs and improve their life cir-cumstances. The Community
Ac-tion Board, comprised of citizens appointed by the Board of
County Commissioners, and which advo-cates on issues related to
people and households with low-incomes, sponsors these awards.
Love INC is honored to receive this award along with the other
awardees:
Camilo SanchezDistinguished Individual Awardee
Daves Killer BreadBusiness Awardee
Molalla Warming CenterPromising Startup Awardee
The Gladstone Food Pantry Coalition Youth Awardee
Gleaners of Clackamas CountyNonprofi t Awardee
Love INC of Clackamas County, a partnership of local churches,
served 1254 families in 2014 with over 10,000 hours of volun-teer
service to provide short term needs:
Beds Firewood Diapers & Baby FurnishingsPersonal Hygiene
Items Blankets & Linens Dental Care
And other material goods and services
Love INC builds relation-ships with families meet-ing short term
needs for a long-term plan. We have a passion to build friend-ships
and opportunities to go deeper with those we are privileged to know
through this ministry. To
this end church partners are off ering small group classes,
coor-dinated through Love INC, topics such as:
Faith and Finances Jobs for Life Personal Development
Classes affi rm individual dignity and respect of every
partici-pant. Dinner and childcare by church volunteers is
provided.
Love INC is a mission centered and participant driven ministry,
with your support we are a bridge for families seeking a path-way
out of impoverishment to the local church to receive love and
discipleship In the Name of Christ.
Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution today Love
INC of Clackamas County: PO BOX 2378, Oregon City, OR 97045.
To learn more please contact Love INC
at:[email protected] or 503-655-4223 ex 4
Spring 2015
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PO Box 2378Oregon City, OR 97045
www.clackamasloveinc.org
[email protected]
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Lace Up With Love Current Need
Helping the Thinker Believe. Helping the Believer Think.The fi
rst annual Oregon City Apologetics Seminar will feature Nathan
Betts of the Ravi Zacharias Ministries to be held Octo-ber 16-18,
2015 at First Presbyterian Church of Oregon City.
Schedule of Events Friday, October 16:
Having Conversations that Count
Saturday October 17th Session 1 The Challenge of Indiff
erence
Session 2 Help, How Do I Answer That Question
The fi nal evening will be held at the McLoughlin Auditorium at
Clackamas Community College. Saturday Evening: Open forum for
skeptics, doubters and disbelievers.
All are invited to continue the weekend with a message from
Nathan Betts at: First Presbyterian Church: 1321 Linn Avenue,
Oregon City 97045
For more information contact First Presbyterian at (503)
656-7444
New Hope Community Church will present Shattering Stig-ma with
Stories: Mental Health and the Church on Saturday, May 30 from 9:00
a.m. 3:30 p.m.
Experience powerful stories of mental illness, including
de-pression, anxiety, postpartum depression, bipolar disorder and
eating disorders. This will be a full day of inspiration that will
change you, educate you and encourage you. Registra-tion is only
$10, including lunch. Tickets can be purchased at
shatteringstigma.com. The program is open to the public. It will be
an amazing day of learning and hope, so please join us!
There were 1207 students in Clackamas County whose fami-lies
struggled to obtain permanent housing in 2014; Love INC community
of churches, businesses and other organizations want to be an
encouragement to these families by doing a new shoe drive for
students as they enter school in the Fall of 2015. Through
donations of individuals, churches and lo-cal businesses we hope to
demonstrate in this small way that they are important members of
our community and we want good for them.
To accomplish this work we have invited local church part-ners
throughout the 10 school districts of Clackamas County to be a
collection and/or distribution site for these shoes. Love INC will
coordinate the registered students and distrib-ute the shoes to the
churches within each district. Churches are invited to welcome
families with activities to celebrate the value and dignity of each
person participating. Perhaps a barbeque and games, or a raffl e
for prizes, or cookies and punch to provide a welcoming place to
celebrate the com-munity spaces we share.
Soon we will publish details and collection sites at our
web-site (http://www.clackamasloveinc.org) and FB page (love INC of
Clackamas County).
Nike Sponsorship
John R. Mann, State Farm Agent
B&B Leasing
To launch this eff ort and celebrate the unity of the church and
her service together, and to raise funds for the ongoing work of
Love INC, Trinity Lutheran Church is hosting, a 5K Race and 1Mile
walk Run with Love.
We invite everyone to register to run or walk in this event, or
come to cheer your team. The team with the greatest number of fi
nishers in both of the events will receive the grand prize.
An after race meal will be served as well as music and
fellow-ship. Help us provide shoes for students in Clackamas
Coun-ty and join us August 22nd to celebrate the unity of Christs
Body-lets party!
5K Run With Love will broaden the outreach of Love INC and
provide new shoes to 1200 at risk students in Clackamas County.
Your participation and support will raise awareness and support for
families in Clackamas County.
The Love INC call center has been receiving multiple requests
for womens personal hygiene products. We hope that you, your church
or small group will donate these items to affi rm the beauty and
dignity of the girls, young women and single moms who are calling
with this request. We are asking for feminine products, womens
shavers and fragranced shower gels to add to the gift pack. For
more information please call Debbie at 503-655-4223 ext 2. Thank
you!
Upcoming Events
Sponsored by Love INC of Clackamas
Countywww.clackamasloveinc.org | 503-655-4223
Run With LoveRun With Love
Shoe distribution throughout the Clackamas County School
Districts
October 17th, 2015.
Register at:www.runsignup.com/runwithLOVE
Affirming the dignity of families in need with real help for
lasting change.
August 22nd, 20155K Run & 1 Mile Run/Walk
Race starts at 9:00 am
Together lets provide new shoes for 1,000 students in need in
Clackamas County
FOOD and MUSIC
Trinity Lutheran Church16000 S. Henrici Road, Oregon City, OR
97045
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