Pathway Program

Welcome to the Pathway Program, a series of free ministry classes hosted by local churches for the Mid-Hudson Love INC community. Pathway offers a supportive, Christ-centered environment where individuals and families can take meaningful steps toward lasting personal and spiritual transformation.

Designed for anyone seeking positive change, Pathway offers practical tools, encouragement, and relationships that help participants move forward with confidence and hope

Classes cover a range of life skills, including budgeting, nutrition, stress management, healthy relationships, self-care, and goal setting. Bible studies and faith-based discussions also help participants deepen their relationship with Jesus Christ and grow in their understanding of God’s purpose for their lives. Pathway is more than a class—it is a community. Participants have opportunities to build supportive relationships, connect with local churches, and learn alongside others pursuing similar goals.

To support the entire family, Mid-Hudson Love INC also offers a Children's Ministry during class sessions.

Children enjoy a safe, engaging environment featuring Bible-based activities, games, arts and crafts, refreshments, and opportunities to learn about God’s love. Throughout the year, Family Fun Days offer additional opportunities for families to connect, celebrate, and grow together.

Register For Pathway Classes

Whether you are looking to strengthen your finances, improve your relationships, develop healthy habits, deepen your faith, or simply find encouragement and community, Pathway can help you take the next step.

We would love for you to join us. For information about upcoming classes, please contact Mid-Hudson Love INC at: 845-471-0102 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday: 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Class Descriptions

1

Building Hope

2

Spiritual Exploration

3

Faith & Finances

4

Affirming Potential

5

Healthy Lifestyles

6

Resolving Everyday Conflicts

7

Coaching

Step 1

Building Hope

Building Hope is our introductory Pathway class designed to acquaint you with our program. You will gain a sense of community as you meet new people and rekindle hope through discussions and activities that focus on self-care and your spiritual well-being.

Building Hope offers life skills and practical tips for nutrition, cooking, stress reduction, budgeting, and goal setting. Heartfelt group discussions explore the power of prayer, healing from past hurts, the importance of gratitude and forgiveness, and mending broken relationships. This is an opportunity to make quality time for yourself, open your heart, learn alongside others, and deepen your trust in God.

By the end of this 5-week class, you’ll be encouraged to continue your journey by taking additional Mid-Hudson Love INC Pathway classes.

Step 2

Spiritual Exploration

Spiritual Exploration is a series of Bible studies designed to help you grow in your Christian faith. Topics change each semester and may include classes such as those listed below, offered from time to time.
“Transformation: Developing a Heart For God”
This 6-week study is based on the book of the same name by Rebecca Manley Pippert. It will help you move from despair to hope, fear to faith, hatred to love, and envy to compassion. By studying the challenges, choices, mistakes, and victories of King David, you will discover that only God can turn these destructive emotions into godly, life-giving qualities. You’ll be encouraged to make the same transformation in your own life.
“Who I Am In Christ”

This 8-week study is based on the book Defined: Who God Says You Are by Steve and Alex Kendrick and the movie Overcomer. If you feel lost in your circumstances, labeled by your past, or misunderstood by others, this study will help you understand your true identity as a child of God. Each week, you will explore God’s nature and what Jesus has done for us on the cross. You will discover who you are in Christ and embrace your best self.

“War Room – The Power of Prayer”
This 6-week study is based on the popular Christian movie War Room and the accompanying Bible Study by Alex and Stephen Kendrick. Together, we will watch the Step 1 Building Hope Step 2 Spiritual Exploration movie and discuss how each character responds as life begins to unravel. The class focuses on the power of prayer, accountability, and spiritual warfare as we navigate difficult times with faith and perseverance. Through scripture and reflection, you will be inspired to cultivate a more intentional prayer life and to trust God more deeply amid everyday challenges.
Step 3

Faith & Finances

This 8-week course, offered through the Chalmers Center, helps you manage your monthly budget and make wise spending decisions. Grounded in Biblical principles, you will consider how money can affect your relationship with yourself, others, your community, and even God. You will receive practical tools for setting financial goals, tracking expenses, reducing debt, and building healthier financial habits. At the end of the course, you can work one-on-one with a financial coach for an additional 3 to 4 weeks to review your spending, pull credit reports, and plan for the future.

Step 4

Affirming Potential

Affirming Potential is an intensive 12-week series offered by many Love INC affiliates nationwide. The class helps you discover your value and God-given potential through guided self-reflection on key areas of life. Along the way, you will recognize the inner resources God has given you to overcome challenges, see a new way forward through faith, and be inspired to make positive changes. By the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to set goals to improve your physical, emotional, spiritual, and relational well-being, with guidance, support, and practical tools to help you achieve them.

Step 5

Healthy Lifestyles

Healthy Lifestyles is a support group for neighbors who have completed Affirming Potential and set health and wellness goals to improve their physical well-being. You will learn about nutrition, cooking and shopping tips, stress reduction, stretching exercises, and low-impact activities. Most importantly, you will be encouraged to set aside quality time for prayer and worship as a transformative form of self-care and healthy spiritual growth.

Step 6

Resolving Everyday Conflicts

Based on the Peacemaker Ministry curriculum, this small-group study explores why we react to conflict the way we do and offers new ways to respond to individuals and issues in everyday life. As you consider your own story, you will learn to navigate difficult relationships and circumstances you have encountered. Healing from past hurt will begin when you rely on and understand the redemptive peace and forgiveness that only God can provide.

Step 7

Coaching

A Love INC Coach is a mentor who walks alongside you with encouragement, prayer, and support as you take meaningful steps toward a personal goal. If you are committed to pursuing a particular goal after completing Faith & Finances or Affirming Potential, you will not have to walk that journey alone. You might be matched with a Love INC Coach who will meet with you one-on-one as you work toward that goal. Your Love INC Coach will encourage you, celebrate your progress, and help you plan next steps and keep moving forward. Through this mentoring relationship, you can experience the kindness and compassion of a faith-centered fellowship, a powerful part of lasting transformation.

Elective: Single Mom Support Group
This is a small group that meets once a month and is composed of single parents raising children on their own. It is a safe place where single moms can share challenges, celebrate victories, learn from one another, and know they are not alone in the day-to-day struggles they face.
Elective: Grief & Loss
Grief & Loss is a 4- to 5-week bereavement program for anyone grieving the loss of a loved one and struggling to fill the void and ease the anguish left by their absence. Through prayer and support, you will be guided toward spiritual peace as you seek comfort and understanding through faith.
Elective: Crafting
This group meets on special occasions to create seasonal handmade items to treasure or to give as gifts.

Transformational Ministry FAQs

Pathway Classes are offered each semester in fall, late winter, and spring.
Each course runs for 5 to 8 weeks.
Classes meet on Saturday mornings or early Tuesday evenings.
Local churches generously provide classroom space, volunteer teachers, and class materials.
Volunteer drivers are happy to provide rides to and from class if needed.
A children’s ministry program is available at most class sessions, right down the hall from the adult classes, for toddlers through teens.
Each week you attend a class, you will go home with a bag of helpful resources and household supplies.

Start with Core Path classes in sequence, then move on to Goal Classes, and take Electives when they are offered.

Try an introductory Building Hope class to see how it goes!