Journey INC

Transformation is a process…since 2017 Love INC has been preparing for Journey In the Name of Christ (Journey INC). Through training + equipping the local Church to answer the call: Redemptive Compassion, Compassion with Redemptive Power, + When Helping Hurts. 

Adults + Children

When + Where

Each Tuesday night at 5:15pm families meet at Hope Lutheran Church, Central Campus to break bread, pray, and learn practical life skills that are helping to transform their lives. Over the past 6 years, Love INC has completed 34 12-week courses reaching over 100 participants (adults, children, and volunteers), on average each week. Love INC is one step closer to its vision:
Community Transformation.

Who + What

It will take collaboration (clients) + a strong network (the Church) to get there.  How do we know when we’ve arrived?  These 6 markers of transformation, in no particular order, is our goal:

1. Relationship with Jesus
2. Safe, stable housing
3. Reliable, legal transportation
4. Sustainable, ethical income
5. Building strong relational network
6. Ongoing mental health wellbeing

How

Education + participation are key to breaking generational cycles.  We believe that love in the name of Christ will transform this community through the mobilized Church.  In order to accomplish this dream Love INC and the church have to answer the call to Biblical wholistic help.

*workshops + education is available, contact us for more information

[JOURNEY INC] HISTORY

Starting in 2005, thanks to your support, our founders have helped build a vibrant, high impact ministry, now poised for its next level of transformational growth to serve more people.

Transformation is a process…Over the past five years Love INC has been preparing for Journey In the Name of Christ (Journey INC). Three years ago Love INC started training and equipping the local Church on Redemptive Compassion/When Helping Hurts. Two years ago George & Michelle Prinzing of Tri-County Baptist Church attended training at Love INC and a seed was planted. January of 2020 a commitment to exploring Journey INC at Tri-County Baptist Church gave hope that it was possible.

In spite of a worldwide pandemic God chose to continue pressing towards Journey INC. In early August 2020, twenty-five volunteers came together in person and virtually to be trained to launch Journey INC. On September 8, 2020 we officially launched T4M calling the program Journey INC (we instituted the name change in October 2021 to more closely represent the heart of the program) at partner church Tri-County Baptist Church with 15 families in attendance.

Flash forward to January 2023, Journey INC has grown to over 25 consistent families and 28 volunteers.  We have officially outgrown the space at Tri-County Baptist Church.  After much prayer and many conversations, Journey INC is moving to Hope Lutheran Church, Central Campus in June 2023.  We are extremely pleased that EVERYONE will continue to be UNITED in SERVICE and PURPOSE and make the move TOGETHER to Hope Lutheran in June.

Journey INC continues to grow and develop.  This quarter (December 2024) we have over 100 people (clients, kids, and volunteers) attending this round of 12 week courses.  We continue to see growth in their live and faith journey.

We invite YOU to join the Journey and see what God has in store for your Journey in the name of Christ.

Why Journey INC, comprehensive transformational ministry training classes for our community?
Heart of Florida community has immediate learning needs beyond Love INC’s current offerings.
Love INC can scale its community impact with Journey INC offerings not offered elsewhere.
Our experience shows when we are able to offer one-on-one learning with our client, relationships develop and goals are more readily achieved.
Classes reach more people and provide a supportive peer learning environment, which is enhanced with mentor coaching.
Pastors of partner churches want their members to be trained and engaged in meaningful community outreach.
Volunteers participate in learning opportunities and establish personal relationships with our guests.
Participants have opportunities to give back through Journey INC leadership roles.
Journey INC strengthens and transforms our community.

Journey INC Curriculum

Love INC has access to powerful courses designed to benefit those around us. We are growing in our capacity to meet needs through training + equipping volunteers each quarter.  Here’s a few of the courses we’ve offered…

AFFIRMING POTENTIAL

Goal setting to help people move out of need into the life God intends for them.

FAITH AND FINANCES

Understanding our connection to money/spending and how to manage effectively.

BOUNDARIES

Ensuring emotional wellbeing by establishing healthy boundaries.

ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING
FORGIVING WHAT YOU CAN'T FORGET

Learning to work through the past in a healthy way for a bright future.

“Seeing relationships restored between family members + friends is good. Seeing new relationships blossom with Jesus is great. Together, we can heal + restore our community.”

Dana Parker, Vision Carrier

Journey INC Program Goals

Build and train a team of Christian volunteers to offer learning opportunities that will provide participants with knowledge + skills to change behaviors that have kept them in material, spiritual, and relational poverty.

Successfully implement and sustain ongoing coaching, mentoring, + supportive relationships for those ready to take their journey to the next level.

Increase successful, life-affirming outcomes “Love Stories” for our clients who have been referred to Love INC.

Increase mutual relationships and understanding between our church volunteers + community participants.

Journey INC Program Outcomes - 3 Years

1

Hire a Journey INC Coordinator.

2

Train a minimum of 10 facilitators (at least two per curriculum) to provide three trimesters of up to 12-week sessions. Classes meet once a week while in session.

3

Recruit 30-member church volunteers to create volunteer teams for each of our churches to rotate responsibility for meals, child care and incentives.

4

One-hundred (100) people in need will complete at least one program session.

5

Twenty-five (25) volunteers will be trained to function as mentor coaches for individuals completing courses.

6

Participants have opportunities to give back in Journey INC leadership roles.

Journey INC Growth Timeline

During the last quarter of 2020, we will be implementingseveral steps simultaneously as we prepare for growing Journey INC 2021 to full potential. During this time, we will be recruiting volunteers, training facilitators, and completing Love INC mandatory training required to implement Journey INC programs.
Oct-Nov, 2020
Volunteers and staff attend Facilitator Training for Work-Life.
Nov 5th - 6th 2020
Love INC of Metro Tampa hosts in person Work-Life session.
Nov-Dec, 2020
Start to recruit and train additional volunteer teams from our partner churches.
January 2021
Second Trimester of Journey INC classes begin.
January 2021
Begin Faith and Finance 12-week session and assign mentors to participants.
2021
Our second sessions begin early 2021 for financial health and well-being. Volunteer Facilitators have been trained and certified to facilitate “Faith and Finance”, a curriculum developed by the Chalmer’s Center whose mission is to “equip the local church to address broken relationships at the root of material poverty, living our Jesus’ Kingdom today”.