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Our guest is Teri Dupuy-Gore, Executive Director of Hub Lafayette Urban Ministries, a Christ-centered outreach serving our neighbors experiencing homelessness, chronic poverty, hunger, and difficult life transitions.
Teri shares how The Hub and its Lovewell Center at 1515 W. University Avenue in Lafayette, create a place to be present in our community and love people right where they are, offering not only practical resources but dignity, relationship, and restored hope.
The Lovewell Center: Eat Well, Dress Well, Style Well, Smell Well
Teri explains that Hub Lafayette Urban Ministries “actually unifies two separate ministries,” and that this conversation focuses on The Lovewell Center at 1515 W. University
Within the Lovewell, members access four resource “stores”:
- Eat Well – “kind of like a Walmart where you can get toothpaste, toilet paper, nonperishable canned goods, things of that nature… like a mini Walmart.”
- Dress Well – gently-used men’s and women’s clothing: “belts, shoes, pants, coats… new socks and new underwear… gently used backpacks.”
- Style Well – “where you get your hair cut by a licensed beautician or barber.”
- Smell Well – “our six stackable commercial washers and dryers so you can wash your clothes.”
All of these resources are available to members of the Lovewell Center.
Membership & the Points System: “A hand up, not a hand out”
Becoming a member is intentionally simple: “To be a member, you simply have to walk in and say, hey, I want to be a member. There’s no criteria.”…