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Elevation Church

A LOVE Week day, spent turning houses into homes.

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60
Elevation Church volunteers
114
Items made home-ready
86
Families supported
Partner since 2018. These figures count every volunteer day in our records.
The partnership

When LOVE Week comes to the Workshop

Every summer, Elevation Church sets aside one week to serve its communities, and calls it LOVE Week. For volunteers from Elevation Church Toronto, that week often includes a day in our Workshop, getting donated furniture ready for families moving into a new home.

LOVE Week usually falls in July. Elevation does its outreach by teaming up with organizations already doing the work in their communities and sending volunteers to help. In the Toronto area, the church meets in Mississauga and Whitby, and its outreach team sets up volunteer days with not-for-profits across the GTA. Furniture Bank is one of them.

Elevation volunteers were refurbishing and upcycling furniture in our Workshop by 2019, and LOVE Week has brought a team back every summer since 2023, for two days in 2025. One year they built IKEA furniture. Another, they put together kitchen carts and bed frames. Other teams have sanded, upholstered and assembled pieces for our showroom.

From the Workshop, the furniture goes to our showroom. Families referred to us by social service agencies come there to choose what they need: newcomers and refugees, people leaving homelessness, and women and children starting over after a shelter stay. Our team matches each household with the pieces it needs, and a bed frame or kitchen cart built by Elevation volunteers can be part of that match.

Thank you to everyone from Elevation Church who has spent part of LOVE Week in our Workshop.

In the Workshop

Recent LOVE Week days with Elevation Church

Elevation Church volunteers in blue LOVE T-shirts in the Furniture Bank Workshop: volunteers smiling at a work table, the team gathered around a carpeted bench with oversized tools under the Furniture Bank banner, two volunteers posing together, and a volunteer working beside a row of lamps

July 2026: the team around a Workshop bench, and a volunteer working on a lamp.

Elevation Church volunteers in red LOVE T-shirts in the Furniture Bank Workshop: the team posing with an oversized wrench under the Furniture Bank banner, two volunteers sanding a wooden nightstand, two volunteers reading assembly instructions, and two volunteers smiling at a workbench

July 2025: sanding a nightstand and working through assembly instructions.

Elevation Church volunteers in red LOVE T-shirts in the Furniture Bank Workshop: three volunteers assembling a white wooden frame, four volunteers standing behind two chairs upholstered in bright floral fabric, a volunteer sanding a small side table, and the team posing with tools under the Furniture Bank banner

July 2025: freshly upholstered chairs and a side table being sanded.

Elevation Church volunteers in green LOVE T-shirts in the Furniture Bank Workshop: the team posing with an oversized wrench and hammers, four volunteers standing among stacked lumber, three volunteers assembling white furniture parts at a bench, and two volunteers smiling at a work table

July 2024: assembling furniture at the Workshop benches.

Elevation Church volunteers in blue and green LOVE T-shirts in the Furniture Bank Workshop: two volunteers holding cordless drills, two volunteers with a wooden shelving unit, the team raising drills under the Furniture Bank banner, and two volunteers assembling a wooden frame

July 2023: building wooden shelving units with cordless drills.

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There is a family in Toronto sleeping on the floor tonight

Bring your team in for a Workshop day like Elevation Church's, or donate the furniture your business no longer needs. Either way, you help us turn empty housing into furnished homes.

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