Services Provided
Here is a sample listing of the helping services offered
by Love INC church volunteers. This list is not exhaustive, but it
gives you an idea of ways we help. If you do not see a certain
service listed here, we may still be able to provide it.
Family Help
Personalized Budget Planning
Balancing of a checkbook
Teaching a household skill
Teaching grocery shopping skills
Teaching meal planning skills
Light housecleaning
Encouragement for parenting/marriage
Occasional daycare
Gifts of donated baby items
Respite care
Meals and gifts at holiday times
Personal/Social Help
Visits to shut-in's at home or care facilities
Assurance phone calls to shut-in's
Picking up and delivery of groceries
Meals when recovering from hospital stay or illness
Help in filing forms (insurance, Medicare, Medicaid)
Transitional support (hospital discharge, prison release)
Language translation service
On-going friendship with developmentally disabled person
Teaching someone about a sport
Inviting someone to join in a sport or athletic activity
Accompanying a rest home resident to the mall
Specialized Help
Appliance repair
Computer help
Furnace repair
Plumbing repair
Speech therapy
Typing / word processing
School-Related Help
Tutoring
Encouragement for someone working toward a GED
Reading to visually impaired persons or the elderly
Spiritual Support
Prayer chain (many Christians praying for a person)
Answering questions about God and listening to questions
Christian encouragement
Praying personally with a person
Visits by a pastor or church leader
Rides to church
Accompanying a person to church or church activity
Bible study at a rest home
Transportation & Housing Help
Rides to appointments
Vehicles (for qualifying persons)
Car repair
Bicycles
Help in locating housing
Minor home repair
Moving and packing help
Snow removal
Yard work
Household chores
Crisis Help
Meals (delivered to the door)
Emergency housing (very limited basis)
Temporary storage of household items
Emotional support during crisis
Pet care during hospitalization
Seasonal Assistance
Raking leaves
Snow removal
Gifts and food baskets (Thanksgiving & Christmas)
Longer-Term Friendship & Support
Assistance in achieving life goals
Help in forming and reaching financial goals
Mentoring
Material Help - Donated Items (subject to availability)
Churches, their volunteers
and members of their congregations, and Love INC donors,
frequently can provide the following items to qualifying Gallatin
Country residents who call Love INC for help:
Baby items
Firewood
Furniture
Gasoline (vouchers)
Groceries (vouchers)
School supplies (for children)
Meals during illness and recovery
Medicine (in conjunction with Gallatin Community Clinic)
Vehicles (for qualifying persons)
