Love Begins Here

Summer Mission Trips! 

Love Begins Here launched on June 21, 2009. That summer, we had 56 missionaries take to the streets of the Madison Diocese.
 
After thirteen years of growth and guidance from the Holy Spirit, over 600 missionaries served on LBH trips in 2021.
 
To this date, Love Begins Here has given over 130,000 hours of service to those in need - materially and spiritually - in the Madison Diocese. (If you didn't do the math, that comes out to over 5,400 entire days!)
 
While those statistics are incredible and the Lord has blessed us abundantly, it is even more exciting to recall the changes we have seen in the hearts of the young people who have joined us.

"Love doesn’t have to be an extraordinary, miraculous, world-changing thing. It is the small tasks close to home that can mean the most." 
 Molly, 5th Year Missionary

"Love Begins Here means that, through supporting our neighbors, we are connecting to God. By seeing God in our neighbors, we are inviting him into our lives. It is all about finding joy in our service, focusing less on ourselves and more on our neighbor and God."
 Jonathan, 1st Year Missionary 

Indeed, God is good to us.
 
In Christ,
Lindsay Finn
LBH Mission Director