~By Robin Keating~ This month, as we have been considering the effects of poverty on the family unit, you might find yourself asking the question, “How can I help? My family is having a hard time making ends meet ourselves.” Yes, helping financially is sometimes our first “go to” and then we tell...
~By Stuart Smith~ At Love INC of Clackamas County, we believe that the church of Jesus Christ is the solution to the challenges and struggles in our community. Our active partner churches are ready to help families experiencing the stress of poverty, no matter their circumstances. We are committed to...
~By Travis Jones~ God intended for His people to be a family, and for those familial relationships to provide healing, support, love, and provision. We experience God’s love together in relationship with one another, and we experience His provision through...
~By Robin Fleming~ “Family.” How would you define it? What images and emotions come to mind? You may describe relationships by blood, adoption, and marriage or more broadly include those people one chooses to walk arm-in-arm through life with. “Family” may bring you thoughts of...
~By Robin Keating~ When God made us in His image He made us as unique individuals, but for the purpose of bringing Him glory with our individual strengths and weaknesses. We were never intended to look at our individualism through a self-serving lens...
~By Robin Fleming~ After reading the previous couple of posts, are you thinking more deeply about the damaging impact of individualism on community and wondering how you might respond to what God’s Word says about this? Are you also asking how Love INC is addressing people’s deep need for connection?
~By Stuart Smith~ When God Created Adam and Eve, they were made to reflect the image of God individually, and together, they made a community that reflects the Trinity...
~By Travis Jones~ "...the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort..."
~By Travis Jones~ Community brokenness happens when the various aspects of a given community are not functioning properly. This involves isolation, poverty, crime, unemployment, broken familial relationships, and so on. Community brokenness is something that every community deals with in one way...
In this blog, we are going to explore topics around the issues of poverty and how we experience these aspects of poverty as well as how we can, as a part of the global church, bring about change to help our neighborhoods become whole.
