In Our City

The Civic Committee seeks to become Nashville's foremost resource for spiritual assembly by opening our doors and our arms to embrace and initiate events recognized as significant by the entire community.

Contact: Mary Morgan, 262-5789.

Service to our community is an important part of ministry at Christ Church Cathedral. Please join us as we seek to fulfill our mission "to go beyond the walls of Christ Church Cathedral into the Diocese, community and world to serve those in need and to extend the ministry of Christ." The Community Outreach Committee evaluates and facilitates opportunities for parish involvement in the Nashville community and beyond. Each year 10% of the Cathedral's pledges and offering plate income is dedicated to outreach efforts. The committee recommends to the Vestry a yearly allocation of financial resources to various local non-profit human service agencies and supports parishioners’ volunteer efforts on behalf of funded agencies. Committee members and other parishioners are available to assist any member in determining which of the agencies might best utilize that member’s interests, time and talent as a volunteer. For more information, please contact Trey Caroland, 386-9855. The agencies listed below are the current recipients of the Cathedral's outreach funds and volunteers:

CAMPUS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: Offers a variety of services and programs designed to provide homeless and near-homeless men and women opportunities for alcohol and drug addiction recovery, education, work and permanent housing. Also offers emergency shelter, food and health services.

Contact: Dwight Hasbrouck

Needs: Teach life skills, literacy, spirituality or art classes (once a week); coordinate a fundraising event

A five-week long summer program at St. Ann's Episcopal Church that serves 40 children in need (ages 5-11) and their families from the East Nashville community.

Contact: Mary Morgan, 262-5789.

Needs: Read to children; assist with arts and crafts, games and field trips

MAGDALENE: Provides residential support for women with a history of prostitution and addiction. Residents at Magdalene run a cottage industry, known as Thistle Farms.

Contact: Glenda Renick.

Needs: Work on November fundraiser, Christmas party, or First Monday Anniversary recognition ceremony; work on the lavender farm April through August; host a Thistle Farms party; tutor for the Better Decision Mentors program (training provided); be a business skills trainer

MATTHEW 25: Offers transitional housing and support services to homeless men who have the potential to establish self-sufficiency within the 60-day period of the program.

Contact: Thor Urness.

Needs: Help with Learning Lab weekdays from 6:00PM to 8:00PM; greet and visit with the 47 residents; join their BOD; bring meals for 25 people 1 time per month; help with marketing, building website or improving their Access database.

NASHVILLE CARES: Provides support services designed to improve the quality of life for people with HIV/AIDS and their families. They also provide advocacy, education and prevention programs for the community.

Contact: Steve and Jeanne Thomas, 371-9153. 

Needs: Heartline: answer calls about AIDS and services; deliver meals via Care-A-Van Cuisine; assist with special events (i.e. AIDS walk, Artrageous); assemble meal packets

NEXT DOOR MINISTRY: A residential program for 52 women which provides a Christian context in which women in need are equipped for life and employment, and a mission context in which women help women.

Contact: Jane Boram.

Needs: Stay overnight from 8:00PM to 5:00AM, women only; prepare and share a meal for 40 to 50 residents; work front desk, greet folks and answer the phone; transport women to court or clinics; assist with clothing choices, job networking; do small repairs, assist in moving

Oasis Center offers Middle Tennessee's only continuum of services for youth ages 13-21 who are in crisis, have run away or are experiencing homelessness.

Contact: Erwin Hargrove, 383-8015.

Needs: Volunteers to cook dinner with teens staying in the shelter; volunteers to spend informal time with teens.

PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: Offers after-school programs for homework assistance and reading development and other mentoring opportunities to children who live in the Preston Taylor community.

Contact: Margaret Neblett, 373-2688,

Needs: Afterschool tutoring from 3:15PM to 4:15PM once a week; lunch mentoring, eat with students once a week; job shadow mentoring during Metro's spring break; Vacation Bible School teacher's assistant for one week; summer 9-week enrichment from 11:30AM to 3:30PM once a week

Reconciliation Ministries works to reduce recidivism by strengthening relationships between individuals incarcerated in TN prisons and their families and by advocating for prisoners and their families. Contact Phil LeGrone.

NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: Seeks to help the hurting by offering food, clothing and shelter to the homeless, and recovery programs to those enslaved in life-degrading problems.

Contact: Ken Penegar, 383-4505

Needs: Staff office weekdays, 3 to 4 hours per week

Rooftop is a faith-based partnership of congregations in Metropolitan Nashville providing rental assistance to individuals and families in need of emergency financial help in order to maintain stability in their housing, to prevent homelessness, and to provide hope.

Contact Bill Coke.

Needs: Prayer partners and follow-up calls to clients

Safe Haven Family Shelter provides the only 24-hour shelter in Nashville where homeless families can stay together. In addition to meals, clothing and shelter, Safe Haven provides training in family budgeting, assistance in finding permanent housing, job training, job placement assistance and helps with home furnishings.

Contact: Maggie Hope, 298-3736.

Needs: Overnight overseers 5:45PM -6:00 AM; Serve dinner everynight 6:00-8:00 PM in groups of 5; Weekend overseer 8:00AM-1:00PM, 1:00-6:00 PM; Homework tutoring and PE, weekdays 3:30-5:30 PM; Art, drama, music projects for families, T,W,Th evenings and Sat mornings 10:00-12:00

Second Harvest provides emergency food boxes to needy individuals and families. Second Harvest also provides low-cost food for area non-profit human service agencies.

Contact: Matthew Bourlakas, 837-8353.

Needs: Volunteers to staff food drives and help coordinate food delivery; solicit and coordinate donations; and assist staff with administrative tasks and warehouse duties.

Siloam Health Center's volunteer medical staff provides affordable primary health care to refugees, immigrants, and others who encounter financial and language barriers in Nashville's health care system.  Click HERE for more information.

Contact: Judy Wright.

Needs: Internal Medicine or Family Practice physicians, Gynecologists, Physical Therapists, Social Workers, Interpreters, Breast Health Educators and those to help with administrative projects behind-the-scenes.

St. Luke's Community House serves low-income people of West Nashville by offering a variety of family oriented services, such as child development programs, and mobile meals to the elderly and handicapped.

Contact: Matthew Bourlakas.

Needs: Volunteers and donors for This'n'That Thrift Shop; volunteers to read to children in preschool, work with seniors and teens, organize parties for children, seniors and teens; volunteers to deliver mobile meals and work in the food bank.

Sudanese Ministry is organized through St. Bartholomew's Church.  The church helps the Sudanese population adapt to a new culture, find jobs, get health care and helps with the educational needs of children.

Contact: Dwight Hasbrouck.

THE LIVING WELL recruits volunteers to teach birth parents of children in foster care better parenting skills with the hope of reuniting the family. These include better time and money management, better decision making practices and problem solving.

Contact: Jane Boram

Needs: Meet with parents to provide support, assist with fund-raising, bookkeeping, telephone follow-up work; pray for a specific family.

The Wayfarers Committee responds to the needs of the homeless and provides volunteers to work with homeless persons on Sunday mornings by offering information and referrals.

Contact: Bill Coke.

Repairs homes of low-income elderly and disabled homeowners in the St. Luke's Community House neighborhood during the months of April through October.

Contact: Phil LeGrone.