Love INC Carver County
Our Mission:
Compassion
Uniting the Faith Community to pool compassion and resources, delivering hope to neighbors in need.
Our Vision
Our vision is to see lives transformed. We seek to be a meaningful community partner that creates collaborative infrastructure to compassionately gift people with daily essentials. We seek to meet physical, emotional, and spiritual needs in Carver County, Minnesota. It’s the difference between offering a hand up, versus a hand out.
Our Impact
Many of the neighbors we serve experience hardship, disadvantage and barriers that contribute to an overwhelming sense of isolation, fear, and loneliness. The Carver County Public Health Advisory is working on a long-term initiative that seeks to address the equity of health for everyone in the county. One of the pillar elements of community health is having a sense of “belonging.”
Love INC Carver County seeks to provide compassion to anyone and everyone the way Jesus Christ modeled love to us…unconditionally. Lives and communities change when the hopeless have hope, when the fearful live by faith and when every villager feels like they belong in the village.
Love INC Carver County answered over 2,200 calls for help in 2021 through our Helpline. The uniting of the Christian-Faith Community to work together along with local service agencies will change lives and this community as a powerful movement.
Love local!
Sincerely,
Al Norby - Executive Director
800+
Households served
In 2023 we served over 800 households and answered over 2,800 calls for help.
18+
Years Serving communities
Initially serving only Eastern Carver County and District 112 residents, we expanded in 2020. Now we’re serving residents in District 110 and have over 30 partner churches.
68+
68% Not part of faith community
We serve everyone within our coverage area no matter their race, color or creed. Most of our clients are not part of any church.
How it works…
Love INC Carver County works hard at nurturing relationships with churches, school districts, government agencies and other service organizations to identify unmet needs that emerge in the community. We mobilize the 30+ local churches in our network to build ministries that fill these gaps in local services so that neighbors get the help and hope they need.
We also serve with government agencies and other local charities by accepting referrals from them of people who need our help. When these organizations cannot provide assistance inside the scope of their resources, mandates and protocols neighbors in need get referred to Love INC. As well, when Love INC cannot meet a person’s needs, we will refer them to other service agencies who can.
1. “I need help.” A person in need calls or emails the Love INC Help Line and requests help.
2. Compassion. A Love INC staff or volunteer caringly listens to identify all of the caller’s needs and determines how we can best provide help.
3. Hope. Next, set in motion are the various “Gap Ministries” who will deliver whatever living essentials we are able to provide directly to our clients.
4. Community. Love INC staff and volunteers follow-up with every client to encourage, care and offer further support or referrals as needed.
