Light to the City

Creating Opportunities for Individual Development

 

LTC Enterprises

Light to the City is a powerful faith-based outreach of the church
Here we can reach out farther into the community and touch more lives
We are called to those with unfulfilled dreams - young and old

  • LTC Fashion

  • Manufactures clothing through a number of different processes: providing "job shop" and "piece work" sewing in support of local manufacturers, manufacturing custom-designed uniforms for designers and retailers, and distributing both wholesale and retail selective lines of clothing.

    LTC Cleaning

  • Provides residential cleaning and clean-up services for the home, yard and garage, including carpeting and flooring and haul-away, including complete swimming pool removal, commercial cleaning services for office and shop on an "on call" or periodic contract basis. Fully licensed, bonded and insured for customer protection. Sample of LTC Cleaning promotional flyer

  • LTC Construction

  • Provides residential renovation and remodeling services, including kitchens and baths, interior and exterior painting and commercial renovation and remodeling. Also fully licensed, bonded and insured for customer protection. Sample of LTC Construction promotional flyer

Highlights of Business Development

 

  • June 10, 2007.Three business enterprises consolidated within Light to the City: LTC Fashion, LTC Clean-up and LTC Construction. See enterprises
  • July 3, 2007. Light to the City purchases a 2001 GMC heavy-duty dual cab truck for LTC Clean-up and LTC Construction, and has also purchased a heavy-duty trailer, with approximately 10,000 lbs. capacity. The trailer is new and custom-designed and will require two weeks to be built. So it should be ready around July 17. Finally, we are working with the sign people for the LTC logo, images and information decals for the truck. We don't have a photo of it yet, so this is the closest we could get to it at CarMax online, but ours is white, a couple of years older and doesn't have quite so much chrome.

  • July 7, 2007. We have completed design of the promotional flyers for LTC Clean-up and LTC Construction and anticipate printing approximately 10,000. They are similar to pizza ads and have a hole cut in the top so we can hang them on the front door knob of homes and businesses within our working radius. They will be printed on both sides, one company to a side, with a similar motif and different detail.
  • July 8, 2007. We are excited about the start-up of LTC Clean-up and LTC Construction! These two enterprises will employ initially a crew of two to four or more people, will provide jobs, service and new opportunities of Light to the City to serve in the community. We finished making flyers to hang on door knobs for both residences and businesses. They are printed front and back as shown below, and we had an initial printing of 10,000. One person can distribute about 300 in a morning. So we hope this promotion, plus other efforts, will start to bring in a steady business. We ask your prayers.
  • July 18, 2007. The 10,000 pound capacity custom-built trailer be had built for LTC Cleaning and LTC Construction has been completed, and with a few small modifications, is ready for pick-up. We will put it into use right away, as we have several job orders queued-up and waiting.

  • July 23, 2007. The 10,000 pound capacity custom-built trailer we had built for LTC Cleaning and LTC Construction is complete, we took delivery. We are preparing Light to the City logos and information signs for the truck and trailer and will post the finished photos here when we're done. In the mean time, we have found a video from the website of trailer with almost exactly the same configuration. Here's a Trailer Video. Our trailer is almost exactly the same, except ours is white, the same color as the truck, and the sides are two feet higher, for larger capacity. We will put it into use right away, as we have several job orders queued-up and waiting.

Enterprise Management

We follow 10 Steps in Starting a Business

  1. Light to the City works with dreams to build plans around them

  2. Through friendship and acceptance we establish relationship

  3. Through the church we offer a spiritual foundation and home

  4. Through Light to the City we offer support and business experience

  5. To friendship and acceptance we add counseling and leadership

  6. We seek to determine the individual's motivations and skills

  7. We seek education and training appropriate to achieve success

  8. We provide jobs in Light to the City and build LTC enterprises

  9. LTC builds and manages enterprises founded on dreams and motivation

  10. We seek the best business management tools as God's stewards

We believe in 7 Sets of Values in Business

 

Values - Light to the City business enterprises are built on our values, which distinguish us and guide our actions. We conduct our business in a socially responsible and ethical manner. We respect the law, support universal human rights, protect the environment, and benefit the communities where we work.

Integrity - We are honest with others and ourselves. We meet the highest ethical standards in all business dealings. We do what we say we will do. We accept responsibility and hold ourselves accountable for our work and our actions.

Trust - We trust, respect and support each other, and we strive to earn the trust of our colleagues and partners.

Diversity - We learn from and respect the cultures in which we work. We value and demonstrate respect for the uniqueness of individuals and the varied perspectives and talents they provide. We have an inclusive work environment and actively embrace a diversity of people, ideas, talents and experiences.

Ingenuity - We seek new opportunities and out-of-the-ordinary solutions. We use our creativity to find unexpected and practical ways to solve problems. Our experience, technology, and perseverance enable us to overcome challenges and deliver value.

Partnership - We have an unwavering commitment to being a good partner focused on building productive, collaborative, trusting and beneficial relationships with governments, other companies, our customers, our communities and each other.

Protecting People and the Environment - We place the highest priority on the health and safety of our workforce and protection of our assets and the environment. We aim to be admired for world-class performance through disciplined application of our operational management systems.

High Performance - We are committed to the mission of Light to the City, and we strive to continually improve. We work hard to sew seed and trust in God to make the increase.

 

We Report our Performance & Request Your Support

 

Light to the City so far, in the first six months of operation, owns and operates three business enterprises founded on the basic 10-Step Program indicated above. They all began as one individual's dream and grew as a cooperative effort to make that dream a reality. 

 

Each organization is managed through a partnership between the individual and the Light to the City, providing employment in the community and growth and increasing independence over time to the individual whose dream initiated the process. 

 

LTC enterprises are partnerships by mutual choice to cooperate for greater success. Each enterprise is unique and will grow along a unique path. We seek to serve individuals and the community through the process and make our homes and lives better.

 

Our motto to our customers is "Make your money work twice as hard", because when you hire an LTC enterprise, you first get a great job, done right and guaranteed and second, you partner with us helping people get an education and the training for their careers, strengthening the whole community.

 

Doing business with Christian values is what the world needs more of. We hear the terms "cut-throat", "dog-eat-dog" and "survival of the fittest" so often we have come to respect and even revere these concepts. But it need not be so. 

 

LTC enterprises employ values that say "Good business is business that is good for both parties". An extension of that is "If it's not good for you, then it's not good for me". We believe that by putting these values into practice, we strengthen the fabric of our homes, communities and lives.

 

We seek your support. We need your prayers and financial donations. We believe that we can make a difference. Gangs, drugs, teenage pregnancies, violence, crime ... are all around us. We are fighting back by building individual lives and community integrity. Will you join with us?

 

One question overrides all others: 

What would Jesus do?

Where there was once weakness, there is strength. 
Where there was once aimlessness, there is purpose. 
Where there was once futility, there is hope. 
Where the children were once living in darkness, 
We see them coming to the one True Light.

 

With your support we can make dreams come true!

 

In order to apply the best modern business management skills to the stewardship of what are essentially all God's assets which he has entrusted to us and to minister to the needs of the individual and the community according wisdom, prudence and efficiency, we are constantly in study. Below is a sample, written for the material handling industry, which illustrates how modern business managers are grappling with the management problems they face daily, some of the studies they have done, conclusions they have come to, and recommendation they have made. Best Practices in Project Management by Bob Trebilcock