Qualifications for Receiving Help
Gallatin County Love INC, serving as a ministry of its
35 partner churches, offers free help to residents of the valley who are
in need. We seek to serve everyone who needs our help, regardless of
religious affiliation (or non-affiliation).
Because
we have limited resources, we take care that we are meeting real needs. While yearning to share freely what
we have, we seek to offer help that builds up and we avoid efforts that
tend to foster unhealthy or self-defeating patterns that rob an individual
of vitality and God-given dignity.
We assure our church volunteers that their service,
offered lovingly in the Name of Christ, will meet real needs within
workable boundaries:
Manageability - church volunteers need to know
that the need is not beyond their capability to respond to.
Legitimacy - Love INC cannot, in good conscience,
send volunteers to do work for others who are perfectly able, physically
or financially, to do the work themselves.
Residency - church volunteers agree to serve
Gallatin County neighbors in need; therefore, Love INC will refer persons who are just
passing through our area to other helping
organizations.
Integrity - in order to be good stewards of the
resources God has gifted us with, we must strive to make sure our efforts are
directed to people who are truly in need; therefore, we work hard to
reduce misrepresentation of facts and fraudulent requests for help.
Duplication - our volunteers need to be assured
that the service(s) they provide are not duplications of services being given by another agency/organization.
What makes a person eligible to receive help?
If you have a real need, and if our volunteers have
the skill to meet your need (usually we can find someone who does have the
necessary skill), it is
not difficult to "qualify" for help from Love INC:
 | your need must be manageable - in other words, a need
that our church volunteers can meet (typically, this rules out
requests for significant financial assistance) |
| your need must be legitimate - in other words, the
need truly exists and you are unable to meet
it yourself |
| you are a resident of Gallatin
County |
| you have not misrepresented the facts of your situation |
| if documents or signed release forms are requested
from us, they are provided; if more information is requested, you
contact our office and provide it |
| if you are asked to go to budgeting, you keep your
appointment |
| patience - it typically will take about a week from
the time you call us until a volunteer meets your need |
