Matching Campaign!

Between now and Dec. 31, 2012, donations to Love INC will have a double impact... or more!  Please include Love INC on your Christmas list this year!  

Generous donors have offered Gallatin County Love INC matching funds - up to $12,000!  Here's how it works:

• For every gift up to $100, your donation will be matched by an equal amount.  For example, a gift of $50 will be matched by another $50, resulting in a total of $100 to support Love INC ministries.
• For every gift of $100 or more, your gift will be matched 1.5 times!  For example, a gift of $100 will be matched with a gift of $150.  A gift of $200 will be result in another gift of $300, for a total to Love INC of $500!
• You can fund the entire Love INC ministry - all its programs and activities - for one enitre day with a gift of $822.

God is blessing Love INC by enabling us to provide the "Change Your Life" program for families and individuals in chronic need, as well as for people who want to learn new or enhanced life skills.  This holistic program not only provides a "hands up" approach, it brings people closer to the Lord.  Feedback from participants is enthusiastic and the results are truly encouraging.  This local program works because God is sending His grace to help hurting people through it! 

Here's what one of your neighbors, a mother, wrote to us about her experience in Change Your Life:  "One day I woke up hopeless and scared... I was so afraid to even look at my problems.  But God guided me to Love INC and the 'changing' program.  Today I leave with hope for my future and my daughter's future."

This Christmas, help provide a "hands up" to a Gallatin County neighbor during the Matching Campaign - and multiply the impact of your gift!  

We pray you have a joyous Christmas... and we thank God for everyone's prayers for Love INC!

Love in the Kitchen

What do food and finances have in common?  Gallatin County Love INC is offering a fun and practical course, "Love in the Kitchen: Basics of Eating Healthy on a Budget."  Start saving money and eating healthier.  Learn to see food and finances in a new light.  Catch some principles of wholeness and well-being from a Christian perspective, too!  Includes kitchen time with a mentor.  The course runs on Tuesday evenings, May 15 - June 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Bozeman.  To go deeper, plan now to also attend the follow-up course, "The Role of Food in Good Health." 

Registration is required and space is limited.  Application deadline: April 24, 2012.  Call soon: 587-3008 (10 a.m. - 2 p.m.).

Note: If you would like to serve as a mentor for this course, a few positions are still open.  Show someone how to cook by a recipe and stretch their food budget.  Have fun sharing your skills and life experience!  YOU are needed to help another person grow.  For more information, email (without the spaces): loveincoffice @ yahoo.com

All Love INC ministry workers, including mentors, are volunteers who must be members or regular attenders of a local Christian church and agree with the faith expressed by the Apostles' Creed (which includes faith in the Trinity, the two natures of Jesus Christ: fully God and fully man, and the bodily Resurrection of Christ). All Change Your Life mentors must pass a criminal background check

Bozeman United Methodist Youth

The Bozeman United Methodist Youth recently went on a "scavenger hunt" for Love INC.  This large and enthusiastic group was seeking donations to be used as incentives for Change Your Life students.  (Incentives are offered to the CYL students for coming to class on regularly and on time.)

The BUMC youth did a fantastic job in acquiring goodies and encouraging the CYL students to make positive changes!  Many thanks to the United Methodist youth and all the generous residents of Bozeman who gave of their own resources to help others change their lives for the better!

Change Your Life currently has two classes running: Finding Financial Freedom and Resolving Everyday Conflict. There's a place for you to serve! If you are a member of a local Christian church and would like to help behind the scenes or work directly with an adult who is trying to acquire a healthier way of living - materially, financially, relationally, socially, emotionally and perhaps even spiritually, contact Love INC (email loveincoffice @ yahoo.com).  Administrative assistants, set up and clean up helpers, childcare workers, transportation providers, mentors and instructors are needed - there's a place for you to love God and your neighbor through this program.

Be a Friend and Change a Life!

Change Your Life, a self-help ministry program of skills training and one-on-one mentoring coupled with tangible rewards and incentives, is gearing up for the fall! Each participant needs a Christian friend - someone who will walk alongside them, support them with prayer and encouragement, hold them accountable, and help that person clarify their own goals. We call these Christian friends, "mentors."

Mentors are asked to serve for about 8-12 weeks, depending on the class that the participant/student is taking. The time commitment is about one hour, once a week. Change Your Life meets on Tuesday nights in Bozeman; mentors meet with their participants from 7:30-8:30 p.m., following the participants' attendance in their classroom instruction. Training is provided; all mentoring occurs in a structured environment under one roof.

Can you serve Christ, share your Christian worldview, encourage someone who is learning news ways of approaching life, and who is waiting for you to be their mentor? We have a waiting list of participants/students who need you!

Course offerings this fall: Finding Financial Freedom (money management), Becoming a More Powerful Person (character development), and Divorce Care for Kids (emotional recovery from parent loss through divorce or abandonment) with an accompanying course for the parent. Mentors are needed for the adult participants of these courses who are counting on Gallatin County Christians to be there for them.

Call Love INC (587-3008) or email rmloveinc @ yahoo.com (no spaces in the email address), put your faith in action and help change a life (it might even be your own!).

Note: All Love INC ministry workers, including mentors, are volunteers who must be members or regular attenders of a local Christian church and agree with the faith expressed by the Apostles' Creed (which includes faith in the Trinity, the two natures of Jesus Christ: fully God and fully man, and the bodily Resurrection of Christ). All Change Your Life mentors must pass a criminal background check.

Ministry Opportunity: Local "Mission" Work!

Love INC's "Change Your Life" relational ministry program (classes, mentoring, real homework, rewards and more) is helping residents of Gallatin County make improvements in many facets of their lives.

You can be a part of this significant and meaningful ministry!  Right now, we have openings for people to:

• Set up and/or take down classroom tables and arrange chairs
• Bring snacks for adults and children
• Make coffee

These simple tasks are a way for you to give to others in the Name of Christ.  With your help, our teachers can focus on providing excellent instruction, mentors who volunteer their time can focus on the people they are helping, and the Change Your Life participants can fully experience the love of many caring Christians. 

Can you serve Christ behind the scenes once a week (Tuesday evening)?  Call Love INC or email rmloveinc @ yahoo.com (with no spaces in the email address) to discover how you can be a part of compassionate Christian outreach -- an outreach that transforms the lives of your neighbors.

Note: All Love INC volunteers must be members of a local Christian church and agree with the faith expressed by the Apostles' Creed (which includes faith in the Trinity, the two natures of Jesus Christ: fully God and full man, and the bodily Resurrection of Christ).

 

E-Free to Host Love INC's "CYL"



Christians surround people in need through Change Your Life

 The Evangelical-Free Church in Bozeman has agreed to host (provide the facility) for Love INC's new "Change Your Life" Relational Ministry program!  We thank God, Pastor Jim and Pastor Brett of E-Free, Bobbi, and the entire congregation for making this new ministry possible!

Change Your Life will meet one night each week (6:30-8:30 p.m.).  To enter this 12 to 18-month program, clients are interviewed and contractually commit to regularly attend, actively participate, and do the work needed to meet their own goals.  In this way, it is a "self help" program with responsibility.  But it is more. 

Change Your Life is all about transformation and moving out of a state of neediness through the prayers, love, training/instruction and the committed personal, one-on-one presence of Christian mentors.  People change when they are surrounded by God's people!

Not everyone is a mentor, but every Christian has some kind of role in Change Your Life (perhaps even without leaving your home).

Instructors, mentors, drivers (transportation), reading to a preschooler, helpers for setup/cleanup, "tool time" teachers, greeters, administrative helpers, teaching a craft, delivery persons, snacks providers, helpers to mail and make copies, childcare, suppliers of coffee and tea, trainers, event organizers, team captains, and much more! What would YOU like to do? People who need Christian support, hope and real life are waiting for YOU and YOUR talents.

Call today or email and get involved with Change Your Life.  Isn't it time to share your life, skills, Christian faith, wisdom from experience... even just your hands and time... with someone whose heart is broken, whose life is in crisis and who wants to know someone cares?

Christ cares.  Be a part of His transforming love!  Call Love INC or email loveincoffice@yahoo.com