Currently, there are over 70 churches in the Love INC network:

Aldersgate United Methodist Church All Saints Anglican Church Antioch Baptist Church Belmont Baptist Church Blue Ridge Presbyterian Church  Buck Mountain Episcopal Church Broadus Memorial Baptist Church Calvary Baptist Church Calvary Chapel of Charlottesville Cedar Grove Church of the Brethren Charlottesville Church of Brethren Charlottesville First Church of the Nazarene Charlottesville Mennonite Church Cherry Avenue Christian Church Chestnut Grove Baptist Church Chestnut Grove Rt. 33 Christ Community Church Christ Episcopal Church Church of the Incarnation City Church Connect Church Covenant Church of God CrossLife Community Church Crozet Baptist Church Crozet United Methodist Church Effort Baptist Church Emmanuel Episcopal Faith & Grace Christian Fellowship First Baptist Church (Park Street) First Christian Church First United Methodist Church Gordonsville Church of the Brethren Grace Community Church Ground Zero Church Hillsboro Baptist Church Holy Comforter Catholic Church Immanuel Lutheran Church

Ivy Creek United Methodist Church Knights Chapel Church of the Brethren Laurel Hill Baptist Church Lebanon Evangelical Presbyterian Church Light House Worship Center Maple Grove Christian Church Mount View Baptist Church Mount Zion First African Baptist Church Mountain Plain Baptist Church New Beginnings Christian Community Northside Baptist Church Olivet Presbyterian Church Our Lady of the Rosary Park Street Christian Church Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church Piedmont Baptist Church Piedmont Christian Church Portico Preddy’s Creek Baptist Church Rivanna Community Church Rockfish Valley Baptist Church Scottsville United Methodist Church Southside Church of God Springhill Baptist Church St. Luke’s Episcopal Church St. Mark Lutheran Church St. Nicholas Orthodox St. Paul’s Episcopal Ivy St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish Tabor Presbyterian Church The Point Church Trinity Episcopal Church Trinity Presbyterian Church University Baptist Church Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church

Without local CHURCHES, there is no Love In the Name of Christ

Partnering with LOVE INC of Charlottesville / Albemarle

We work with large, medium, and small churches and the level of support varies with each church. Love INC offers churches the opportunity for Christian service and outreach in our community. Obviously, the more elements of support a church offers, the more of our “neighbors in need” will be reached.

Levels of support vary between churches and size is not the distinguishing factor, ONLY the desire to minister to our neighbors. The more a church is involved, the more lives can be changed for Christ. We encourage churches to move to a deeper Partnership in which each church commits to joining other churches to provide volunteer and financial support for the operation of Love INC. We ask a church to:

1. Introduce Love INC to the congregation
2. Refer requests for help to the Love INC Clearinghouse
3. Encourage church members to participate in the ministry of Love INC
4. Organize church members to serve by using their gifts and abilities
5. Accept referrals for help from the Love INC Clearinghouse to existing ministries
6. Participate in the financial support of Love INC 
7. Pray for Love INC, clients (neighbors in need), other partner churches, and for the unity in the body of Christ
8. Appoint one or more Church Ministry Coordinator(s) (CMCs) to be the liaison(s) between the Clearinghouse and the congregation

The church may also want to:

• Create a church or joint ministry to fill a gap of need in the community
• Do follow-up visits to people who have received help through the Love INC Clearinghouse

How Love INC Serves Churches

Love INC Commits to:

• Verify the legitimacy of needs through the Love INC screening process, 
• Discover if those receiving assistance are already receiving help from other churches or agencies, 
• Lessen the burden of any one church by rotating assistance requests among partner churches,
• Help churches steward resources, and 
• Coordinate volunteer efforts; thereby 
• Decreasing mercy ministry administrative burdens on the Church.
• Decide how to best help a person in need by discovering issues at a root level. 
• Provide long-term, self-help solutions to those with chronic need. 
• Provide specific, manageable opportunities for Churches to reach out with God’s love to people in need. 
• Enable Churches to assist those outside of their own congregation. 
• Offer a unified witness of God’s love to the community as Christian Churches work together. 

NOTE: Most ministries and agencies focus on the requested need of the individual. Love INC does not. Love INC focuses on the person!

Interested in joining our network of churches?