Our Mission
Bringing community partners and local churches together to meet the physical, financial, and relational needs of our neighbors.
Our History
Love Nova is a non-profit birthed out of The Journey Church community. During the Covid-19, this church community came together to raise funds, serve, and meet the needs of our neighbors in crisis. We partnered with local government organizations and food banks to provide weekly groceries and monthly food distributions. Through this crisis, we discovered a growing passion for helping our neighbors that we wanted to continue. Creating Love Nova, allowed our volunteers to continue their work and expand. We have been able to be flexible and quickly address community needs as they arise. In 2022, Northern Virginia received an influx of Afghan refugees, and Love Nova was able to create a temporary program to assist with house moves and provide drivers license instruction. Each year, we aim to assess our area’s greatest needs and plan our programs for the year around partnering with our community to address those acute needs.
Our Philosophy & Values
With a spirit of generosity, Love Nova was founded to help those in our local community in need. Our service to the community is based on the following guiding principles:
To treat all people with value and without discrimination as images of God
To give hope and compassion to everyone we encounter
To be flexible and able to pivot to meet sudden needs as they arise
To partner with other churches and non-profits, encouraging and equipping them
To give volunteers of all ages a chance to use their gifts together and invite friends and family to serve alongside them
Our service to the community is based on the following guiding principles: