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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:info@clackamasloveinc.org or 503-655-4223 ex 4

Spring 2015

NON PROFIT ORG.POSTAGE & FEES PAID

OREGON CITY, ORPERMIT NO. 59

PO Box 2378Oregon City, OR 97045

www.clackamasloveinc.org info@clackamasloveinc.org503.655.4223

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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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