Strategic Plan Summary
2023-2026
Our mission is to mobilize local churches to transform lives and communities In the Name of Christ.
More simply put—we help churches help people.
Objectives
Mission Acceleration
The mission and structure of Love INC is an intentional effort to help the Body of Christ join God in His story of grace, salvation, and bring wholeness to a broken world (or restoration). In accelerating our mission, our desire is to follow God’s leading, communicate the impact, and invite others to join and support the ministry.
Thriving Movement
People are the most important resource of any organization. We seek to maximize our support and connectedness of our affiliate executive directors to help increase their tenure, and challenge their affiliates to aspire toward enhanced mission delivery and operations.
Flourishing Church
Mission Acceleration
To follow God’s leading, communicate the impact, and invite others to join and support the ministry.
KEY RESULTS
Prayer
Love INC is not a faith-based ministry, it is a faith-driven ministry. Prayer is one of our core values and we’ve identified it as important to accelerate our mission, for wisdom, direction, and encouragement.
- Two Love INC Movement prayer events per year
- A monthly Love INC Movement prayer team
- A full review and updating of key training
materials to incorporate a focus on prayer
Opening 27 New Affiliates
We’ve helped over 110+ communities start Love INCs in the past 45 years. We are excited about this aspirational goal, and proactively reaching it.
Storytelling
Telling our story well serves the purpose to accelerate our mission to start new Love INC locations and secure ongoing funding so that more lives can be touched and more lives transformed.
- Identifying new metrics of impact
- Increasing Love INC brand awareness through advertising/referrals
- Creation of video story-telling resources
Increase Funding
To accelerate our mission, help build a thriving Movement, and increase church impact, we look forward to enhancing the approach and success of affiliate and Love INC National fundraising.
Thriving Moment
Maximize Executive Director support and connectedness to help increase tenure, enhance mission delivery, and improve operations.
KEY RESULTS
Pursuit of Excellence Certification
Two of our core values are maturing and excellence. We will identify criteria for a Pursuit of Excellence Certification to which affiliates will be invited to pursue, supported to attain, and be recognized for their accomplishment. The impact will be enhanced missional integrity, and increased operational performance.
Extend Tenure of Executive Directors
The role of a Love INC Executive Director is certainly challenging. But the reasons for executive director turnover are varied. Some may be unavoidable, however, we seek to maximize our support and the connectedness of our executive directors to best help them serve their affiliate well for at least 5 years.
Health Benefit Support
Love INC National seeks to identify and solve common issues experienced by our affiliates. Health benefit support is one of those issues. We commit to explore how Love INC National can be helpful to making health benefit support more accessible to our affiliate leaders.
Technology
We will explore and discern technology innovation as potential enhancements to the Love INC Mission and modes of ministry.
Flourishing Church
We are committed to leading the Love INC Movement in listening well to churches, and discovering ways to increase church and volunteer engagement.
Key Results in 3 Distinct Areas:
Listening to Churches
We will lead the Love INC Movement to engage in a local church listening effort and provide a summary report.
Increased Number of Mobilized Churches Across the Love INC Movement
Grow the overall annual number of churches mobilized by 10% from 2022 to December 2026.
Increased Volunteer Engagement Across the Love INC Movement
Increase the annual number of volunteers engaged by 15% from 2022 to December 2026.
Getting Involved
Here's how you can take part:
Pray
Follow our Feeds
Like and follow our Facebook or Instagram feeds @loveincnational for our most recent news and updates, and share our posts to tell others about our impact.
Spread the Word
Visit loveinc.org/ambassador to grab ready to print handouts, postcards, and social media messaging and help spread the word about starting a Love INC in more communities. Plus, if you already know someone who might be a great Love INC vision carrier, send them to loveinc.org/start-a-love-inc to learn more.
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