Why We Love
#LoveChattanooga is our outreach initiate to love and serve our community all year long.
“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
1 John 4:9-11
God loves us right where we are, just as we are- brokenness and all. He doesn't expect us to get it all together before He loves us, He doesn't expect anything in return for His love. Instead He demonstrated His great love for us through Jesus. And if this is the love that we have been given, then this is the love we want to give.
We love because God first loved us. That's what Love Chattanooga means.
We want to love those in our city right where they are, regardless of their story, regardless of their past. We want to love them in a way that helps meet their tangible needs in the moment, but also points them to the hope found in Jesus.
“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
1 John 4:9-11
God loves us right where we are, just as we are- brokenness and all. He doesn't expect us to get it all together before He loves us, He doesn't expect anything in return for His love. Instead He demonstrated His great love for us through Jesus. And if this is the love that we have been given, then this is the love we want to give.
We love because God first loved us. That's what Love Chattanooga means.
We want to love those in our city right where they are, regardless of their story, regardless of their past. We want to love them in a way that helps meet their tangible needs in the moment, but also points them to the hope found in Jesus.
Community Partners
A big part of Love Chattanooga is our community partners. We partner long-term with organizations and ministries in our city who make a difference in our local community, reaching people we don’t know how to or wouldn’t be equipped to like they are. We come alongside them to support and encourage, love and equip, meet tangible needs, serve hands on, and partner financially and relationally.
For more information about our partners and how you can get involved, email our #LoveChattanooga team at [email protected].
For more information about our partners and how you can get involved, email our #LoveChattanooga team at [email protected].
2023 Long-Term Partners
Adult & Teen Challenge MidSouth (ATCM) is a faith-based, residential recovery program for men and women, 18-50, struggling in addiction and other life debilitating issues. Throughout the program, they address their students' physical health, relationship with man and God, and emotional well-being.
Blue Monarch provides a long-term, residential and therapeutic Christian community for women and their children to break adverse cycles and rebuild their families. They offer each woman a one to two-year residential program specifically designed to fit her individual needs and help her further her education, break her addictions, become a better mother, obtain a job and gain independence.
First Things First helps families start and stay strong. They provide resources that guide people in their relationships so they can live better lives. Their heart for those they serve is that healthy relationship skills will be passed down by every family from generation to generation.
Hardy Elementary is a Title I school and a part of the Opportunity Zone Learning Community. They have approximately 500 students, Pre-K through 5th grade, along with 75 faculty and staff members, who are committed to empowering students to be learners and leaders.
How We Partner
Meet Tangible Needs
Hands On Service
Financial Giving
The Boards in the entryway are covered in cards that represent specific needs in our community. Each Sunday, there is opportunity to take a card and meet a tangible need. One card at a time, one person at a time, we can love Chattanooga.
We serve hands on with our partners. From cleaning and organizing their facilities, preparing hygiene kits, delivering meals to our homeless communities, to running games at field day, we partner relationally and show up to serve however we are needed.
Every month a percentage of all giving church wide is poured directly back into local non-profits and organizations to support our community. This allows us to say yes to big and small needs that we are made aware of throughout the year.
#LoveChattanooga Impacts
We love sharing and celebrating the stories of what is made possible through #LoveChattanooga. We do this not only to celebrate all God is doing throughout our city, but to also express our gratitude to every single person that has helped us love those most in need in our community.
For a full list of our month to month impacts, CLICK HERE.
For a full list of our month to month impacts, CLICK HERE.
March 2024
Hardy Elementary
- We were able to make sure each class in grades 2 - 5 can have field trips for the kids at Hardy this Spring! They will be visiting the Creative Discovery Museum, the Chattanooga Zoo, Hidden Hills Farms, Reflection Riding and Ooltewah High School! Many of these kids would not have the opportunity to experience some of these venues outside of these school trips, and we are so grateful for your generosity to help them get to be part of this.
- Another opportunity we were able to help with is providing healthy snacks for each classroom. Students at Hardy often do not have access to healthy food options outside of what the school provides, or do not have funds to purchase these ‘extras’ we take for granted. It’s a practical way to address hunger, health, and keeping kids focused during the school day.