More Than Furniture: How the Local Church is Turning Houses into Homes

• Post author:lauriem
• Post published:February 26, 2026
• Post category:Bed Ministry/Furniture Ministry/Help Center/Household Starter Kit/Impact Story/Love INC Needs/Love Stories
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When a family receives the keys to a new home, it can feel like a fresh start. But for many of our neighbors, that moment also comes with a quiet…

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Loved Twice Thrift Boutique: More Than a Thrift Store

• Post author:Tiffany Self
• Post published:October 19, 2025
• Post category:Love INC Needs/Love Stories/Thrift Boutique/Thrift Shoppe
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When you step through the doors of Loved Twice Thrift Boutique in Gurnee, you notice there’s something different about this store. Whether the clean and organized space, the encouraging Christian…

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From Planks to Placed: The Story of Handmade Dressers

• Post author:lauriem
• Post published:June 20, 2025
• Post category:Furniture Ministry/Impact Story/Love INC Needs/Love Stories/Relational Ministry
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How Lake County churches, organizations, and individuals serve those in needWhat happens when 27 men across generations and six different churches gather for one purpose? Dignity gets built—one dresser at…

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It’s Been a Revival Inside of Me

• Post author:lauriem
• Post published:January 31, 2025
• Post category:Impact Story/Love INC Needs/New Hope Minstry/Relational Ministry/Transformational Ministry
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“It's been like this revival inside of me!” This was part of one participant’s testimony as we celebrated our Fall 2024 graduates. Over the course of twelve weeks last fall,…

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A Typical Saturday Morning

• Post author:welldesign
• Post published:April 25, 2022
• Post category:Bed Ministry/Furniture Ministry/Love INC Needs/Love Stories/Ministries

What does your typical Saturday morning look like? For volunteers at 11 partner churches, it means starting their day at the Love INC warehouse, loading up gifts of furniture (chosen and cleaned…

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Making a Sacrifice for a Relationship with God

• Post author:welldesign
• Post published:February 25, 2022
• Post category:Love INC Needs/Love Stories/New Hope Minstry

Would you show up to class for a bottle of laundry detergent? Probably not. That’s not the motivation for our New Hope Ministry life skills class participants either. However, the…

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A Light in the Darkness

• Post author:welldesign
• Post published:January 13, 2021
• Post category:Bed Ministry/Household Starter Kit/Love INC Needs/Love Stories/Ministries/New Hope Minstry

Happy New Year! With all that is going on in the world right now, it is more important than ever that we lean into our calling to be the light…

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A Good Night’s Sleep

• Post author:welldesign
• Post published:June 17, 2020
• Post category:Bed Ministry/Furniture Ministry/Love INC Needs/Love Stories/Prayer

How well have you slept over these last few weeks? Did you wake up each morning in a comfy bed? Many of our neighbors are sleeping on the floor- on…

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The Light of Christ in a Pandemic

• Post author:welldesign
• Post published:April 25, 2020
• Post category:Love INC Needs/Love Stories/Ministries/Relational Ministry

Even in the midst of our stay at home order, Love INC continues to be the bridge between our churches and those experiencing need within our community. Following are just…

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How Many Churches Do You See?

• Post author:welldesign
• Post published:December 13, 2019
• Post category:Bed Ministry/Furniture Ministry/Household Starter Kit/Love INC Needs/Love Stories

  Fourteen churches. Do you see them in this picture? The mission of Love INC is to mobilize local churches to transform lives and communities, In the Name of Christ…

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