What an incredible week! LOVE Week volunteers served all over the Charlotte region - serving 62 outreach organizations in partnership with 31 churches to surpass our goal and reach 50,340 hours.
Because of your generosity, we gave away $221,000 in cash to our local outreach partners - on our way to $750,000 in one year to fulfill our commitment to Mayor Anthony Foxx in the Orange Initiative.
Huge amounts of gratitude go out to each and every volunteer. We believe several of our leaders, hosts and project managers served more than 90 hours in the days leading up to LOVE Week and during this past week's events.
Pastor Steven Furtick gave us this verse to share with you:
1 Thessalonians 1:3 says:
"We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ."
We couldn't be any more humbled by and grateful for your service. We started with 352 events scheduled, and added dozens more during the week as demand grew - in the end serving at more than 400 opportunities.
The best is yet to come, as we head out this week with your gifts in hand. We will be blitzing the Charlotte - Matthews - Monroe - University - Rock Hill area taking tens of thousands of sandwiches, gift baskets, house wares, clothing items, furniture, and more to all our outreach partners and beyond.
We are just getting started. With about 18,000 hours of service still to go on our Orange Initiative commitment, we encourage you to stay connected with the outreach partner you loved serving with the most during LOVE Week. Please keep track of your hours, and report them using our new LOG HOURS tool.
We'll be announcing new initiatives in the coming days to help you get involved. Thank you SO much for your service to our city and beyond.
We look forward to hearing your stories of how God moved through your obedience to serving during this initiative. Please share them with us by sending an email to amen@elevationchurch.org.