Helping Love, INC in Pierce County
Later this month, a group of folks from Believer’s Fellowship church here in Gig Harbor will be setting out to renovate a barn at Love, INC’s headquarters in Puyallup, WA. Love, INC’s mission is to “mobilize the Church to transform lives and communities In the Name of Christ.”
One thing that Love, INC does is provide families who have lost everything to a flood or a fire, or someone who abandoned all they had to flee an abusive relationship, with new furniture for their home. The furniture is not really new, but to someone who has literally nothing, gently used furniture can be an amazing gift.
Currently, Love, INC doesn’t have the space to store the donated furniture that they distribute to folks in need. That’s where we come in, and where we can use your help. On Saturday the 16th, we will begin by clearing junk out of a barn currently on Love, INC’s property. Then on the 17th, we’ll pressure wash the inside of the barn and begin painting the lumber. The following Saturday (the 23rd), we will begin building the structures that will transform the old barn into an adequate storehouse for furniture. Then, on Saturday March 1, will will need to fill the re-habbed barn with furniture. IF YOU HAVE ANY FURNITURE THAT YOU’RE WILLING TO DONATE, please bring it to Believer’s Fellowship on March 1st.
If you have the desire to serve the community, we would love your help at any of these stages. You don’t have to be a member of our church (well, I guess there are no members of our church as we don’t have membership…if you join us you’re as much a member as anyone!) to help out. This is just a group of Pierce County residents, most of whom happen to go to church here in Gig Harbor, who have decided to help out a great organization in need.
If you’d like to help with any of the construction phases or by donating furniture, please contact me so we can plan for any necessary transportation and tools. Caring about our communities is what makes us a community.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:37 pm
This is such a great service … I hope you get lots of folks to help. Please post something on how it went afterwards, won’t you?
March 6th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
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