Our Mission + Vision

Love INC Des Moines is one of more than a hundred Love INC locations across the United States and Kenya, who partner with over 7,800 Christian churches to serve hundreds of thousands of people in need.

Our local Love INC serves families who reside in Des Moines or attend one of our Love INC partner churches. How? By mobilizing local churches to transform lives and communities In the Name of Christ.

Here’s why that works:

Without Love INC

Churches serve their communities in different ways. One area may have a financial literacy program, while another has housing assistance. Yet, when care is not coordinated, needs can be overlooked or duplicated, and people are not served in a holistic manner.

With Love INC

Love INC fosters collaboration and organizes holistic care to help churches serve their neighbors through resources and relationships. By networking churches together, each church is able to lean into their strengths, knowing that their neighbors will be cared for by the body of Christ within their community.

Our Partner Churches

Christian churches from across at least six denominations partner together to form a Love INC. Within these partnerships, Love INC serves as the scaffolding upon which greater growth is possible. However, it is the Christians in these churches who model Christ’s love and answer God’s call to serve. Working together as the body of Christ, we can best love and serve our community.
First Family Church
Soteria Church
Park Church
Greater Life Church
Presence Church
Cornerstone Baptist Church
Frontier Church
Reach Church
Sundry Church
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Cottage Grove Church
Living Waters Fellowship
True Bible Baptist Church
Eden Church
Emmaus Church
The Church at Union Park
Saylorville Church
Table Church
Westchester Church

Our Staff

Board of Directors

Our Faith

Love INC is a partnership of diverse local Christian churches, so rather than focus on theological or doctrinal differences, we focus our shared belief in Christ as our savior, and use the Apostles’ Creed as our unifying statement of faith.

Our desire is to bring together many Christian churches from different faith traditions across Des Moines to work together, unified by our faith in Jesus Christ, to transform lives. The following faith standards shape our partnership as we strive to work together with grace and love.

The Apostles' Creed

I believe in God the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, who suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried, descended into hell, rose again from the dead on the third day, ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty, who will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.