Parish Outreach at Christ Church Cathedral

Outreach at Christ Church Cathedral

Outreach is an important part of ministry at Christ Church Cathedral. Opportunities for service abound. We invite you to peruse this brochure and find out where your gifts and talents match our service needs. 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."

Vestry Liaison: Thor Urness, 252-2384, turness@bccb.com

Outreach is one of five clusters which make up the existing Vestry structure of Christ Church Cathedral. The Outreach Cluster consists of these major groups:

v      Community Outreach Committee

The Community Outreach Committee evaluates and facilitates opportunities for parish involvement in the Nashville community and beyond. 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.
Committee Chair: Trey Caroland, 286-9855, cc@corporatedev.com

If you have any suggestions of ways in which Christ Church Cathedral can make a positive difference in the community, please send your comments to the Community Outreach Committee.

v      Global Missions Committee

The Global Missions Committee provides opportunities for Christ Church parishioners to enter into partnerships with other Christians in other countries. Believing we are called to express our faith through service, the committee fosters mutually empowering relationships that allow the people of Christ Church of every age, income or background to share their gifts, talents, service and faith with the wider world.
Committee Chair: David Wilson, 292-5309, davidkeywilson@yahoo.com

The Amistad Mission in Bolivia consists of a Children’s Village in the city of Cochabamba and a Medical Clinic, Day Care, and School in Aramasi, a village in the high Andes mountains. Bolivia is the poorest country in South America, and the people in the village of Aramasi have been among the most impoverished in the world. The Children’s Village operates eight cottages for younger children and three Youth Houses. Christ Church Cathedral is the sponsor of one of these cottages. In Cochabamba, a mission-center house, La Morada, was built to provide a place for U.S. visitors and missionaries to stay and to serve as a retreat center for Bolivians. The Cathedral sponsors adult and youth pilgrimages to Bolivia periodically.
Contact: Anne Morgan, 383-0438, azmorgan79@comcast.net.

The Ecuador Companion Diocese Relationship is an outreach project with the Diocese of Litoral. Volunteers participate in medical and work mission trips to Guayaquil, Ecuador,and surrounding areas, and by donating medical supplies.
Contact: Susie Ries, 279-0680, susieries@comcast.net.

Sihawukelwe Lauren's Children's Home supports orphaned children in Umzinyathi, a village in northeastern South Africa. The health status of the children is unknown; however, all are orphans as a result AIDS. Fifteen children, ages 3 to 18 years, live there full time as they transition to community or government supported programs. The Cathedral provides funding for food to both live-in children and orphans supported by community families, and as many as 60 deserving children visit daily for meals. The current priority is to build bathroom facilities and renovate a larger building to be used for dormitory bedrooms and a study/living room. Running water is not currently available. Parishioners are invited to participate in pilgrimage trips to Umzinyathi.
Contact: Elizabeth Wilson, 292-5309, elua00@yahoo.com.

The Global Missions Water Project is an effort to provide safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation in developing countries.
Contact: Gerry Calhoun, 352-3521, gercalhoun@aol.com.

v      Alternative Christmas Gift Market

The annual Gift Market provides an opportunity to recapture the joy of giving by making donations to local agencies and global ministries in honor of family and friends. Donors receive a “gift card” to give to the honoree telling him/her that a donation has been made in his/her honor. Volunteers are needed to work on the committee or during the event.
Committee Chairs: Libby Patterson, 353-0559, libpatterson@comcast.net, and Holly McCathren, 665-9235, mccathren.blc@comcast.net.
v      Wayfarers Committee

Volunteers meet with people who are homeless or who are transients who come to the Cathedral on Sunday mornings. The volunteers counsel with them about the limited social services available on Sundays, and on occasion provide help with food and transportation. Members of the Wayfarers Committee also maintain contacts with other downtown congregations regarding Sunday morning ministries.
Committee Chair: Bill Coke, 665-1992, wcoke1@bellsouth.net.
v      Environmental Ministry
The Christ Church Cathedral Environmental Ministry pursues a focused ministry of Reflection, Education, and Action that promotes the following:

A remembrance that every element of creation is a gift of God and a revelation of God, with the understanding that how we relate to the natural world also reflects our relationship with God.

A deepened knowledge of theological and spiritual issues, as well as scientific and practical ecological issues.

A heightened awareness of our responsibility to live in ways that protect, heal and honor the integrity of God’s creation; leading to intentional changes in lifestyles that reflect a reverence for God’s creation.

This ministry is one of the four focus areas of the Cathedral Reconciliation Ministries.
Committee Chair: Joyce Wilding, 952-5812, joycewilding@comcast.net.

v      Community Investment & Economic Justice
The Community Investment and Economic Justice Committee (CIEJ) was formed in 2007 to increase awareness of the benefits of and need for “community investing,” not only for the communities in the Diocese of Tennessee, but on a global level. CIEJ provides opportunities to participate in community investing and empower the less fortunate to gain dignity and self-sufficiency through participation in their local economies.
Committee Chair: Randy McCathren, 383-1930, rmccathren@blcassociates.com.

Shared Interest Investment
In December, 2006, CCC accepted a joint CIEJ - Global Missions proposal to lend a portion of our endowment to an organization (Shared Interest) that provides partial guarantees of South African bank loans to people of color displaced by apartheid who are now re-launching farming collectives and their own small businesses. The Community Investment and Economic Justice Committee seeks to:

Extend the Shared Interest model to seed new micro-businesses that would employ the youth leaving our orphanages in Bolivia (Amistad) and South Africa (Sihawukelwe Lauren’s Children's Home)

Support other micro-development opportunities in the Diocese of Tennessee, particularly in Nashville

Provide opportunities for parishioners to volunteer in these and other micro-businesses and support them with their personal investment loans.

Affordable Housing for Nashville
The first idea proposed by the CCC Community Outreach Committee is for CIEJ to support Nashville community efforts to develop a greater supply of decent affordable rental housing.   For involvement with the new Subcommittee on Affordable Housing for Nashville, contact Ken Penegar kenp4141@aol.com or Michael Hasty michaelhasty@comcast.net.

For those agencies/organizations with Icons, please click on the picture to be directed to specific web site.

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: Cammie Claybrook, 353-4603, cammiecalybrook@comcast.net
Needs: Teach life skills, literacy, spirituality or art classes (once a week); coordinate a fundraising event

ROOM IN THE INN: Provides emergency winter shelter at over 150 local churches. Christ Church Cathedral members host 12 men every Thursday night in the Annex Building from November 1 through March 31.
Contact: Carol King, 371-8687, carolaking2003@hotmail.com
Needs: Drivers, Cooks/Servers, Bag Lunch Makers, Hospitality including set-up and toiletries, Overnight Innkeepers

THURSDAY LUNCH PROGRAM AT THE CAMPUS: Proves a warm meal every Thursday to 200 homeless guests. Christ Church Cathedral members provide four of these luncheons annually.
Contact: Trey Caroland at 386-9855, cc@corporatedev.com
Needs: Servers

SUNDAY LUNCH PROGRAM AT THE CAMPUS: Provides a hot meal to residents of the Guest House and at Respite Care. Christ Church Cathedral members prepare and serve 40 meals on six Sundays per year.
Contact: Melanie Leader, 271-0632, melleader@comcast.net
Needs: Cooks, Servers

EAST NASHVILLE HOPE EXCHANGE: 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: Thor Urness, 298-5096, turness@bccb.com
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, 269-6766, GLENICK@aol.com
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, 2908-5096, turness@bccb.com
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: Geoffrey Butcher, 255-7729, gbutcher@christcathedral.org
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

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: Bill Coke, 665-1922, wcoke1@bellsouth.net
Needs: Staff office weekdays, 3 to 4 hours per week

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, 292-9530, bobjaneboram@clearwire.net
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 to 21 who are in crisis, have run away or are experiencing homelessness
Contact: Glenda Renick, 269-6766, GLENICK@aol.com
Needs: Cook dinner with teens who stay in the shelter; spend informal time with teens

COMMUNITY IMPACT! NASHVILLE: Trains urban youth to increase educational and economic opportunities for themselves and their neighborhoods by providing financial skills, leadership training and scholarships, done in conjunction with the Oasis Center (focused in East Nashville).
Contact: Glenda Renick, 269-6766, GLENICK@aol.com

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, neblettam@comcast.net
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 Tennessee prisons and their families, and by advocating for prisoners and their families.
Contact: Libby Patterson, 353-0559, libpatterson@comcast.net
Needs: Provide child care during support meetings; tutor teens in the after-school program; assist staff at the Guest House, a shelter for out-of-town family visiting relations in Middle Tennessee prisons

RENEWAL HOUSE: Fosters healing, resiliency and continuing recovery to enhance family health. Their target population is low-income, often homeless, drug-addicted women and their children.
Contact: Bill Coke, 665-1992, wcoke2@bellsouth.net
Needs: Staff food drives; help coordinate food delivery; solicit and coordinate donations; assist staff with administrative tasks and warehouse duties

ROOFTOP: A consortium of faith-based partners who offer compassion and provide rental assistance to achieve housing stability one paycheck away from becoming homeless
Contact Bill Coke, 665-1992, wcoke1@bellsouth.net
Needs: Overnight overseers from 5:45PM to 6:00AM; serve dinner every night from 6:00PM to 8:00PM in groups of 5; weekend overseer from 8:00AM to 1:00PM, 1:00PM to 6:00PM; homework tutoring and PE, weekdays from 3:30PM to 5:30PM; art, drama, music projects for families on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings from 10:00AM to 12:00pm

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: Bill Coke, 665-1992, wcoke1@bellsouth.net
Needs: Staff food drivers; help coordinate food delivery; solicit and coordinate donations; assist staff with administrative tasks and warehouse duties

SHARED INTEREST: A non-profit agency that guarantees bank loans to people of color in South Africa. Does not loan funds directly to South Africans; instead issues a partial guarantee to the South African bank that is lending its own funds to a micro-development agency funding or a collective or cooperative enterprise that needs capital to support the start-up or expansion of black-owned businesses.
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SILOAM HEALTH CENTERS: Volunteer medical staff provide affordable primary health care to refugees, immigrants and others who encounter financial and language barriers in Nashville's health care system.
Contact: Judy Wright, 298-5383, judy-wright@comcast.net
Needs: Health care professionals; Interpreters: File Clerks; Office Assistants; People to supervise children; Handlers of little projects

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 Melanie Leader, 371-0632, melleader@comcast.net
Needs: Work and donate to This 'N That Thrift Shop; read to preschool children; work with seniors and teens; organize parties for children, teens, seniors; deliver mobile meals

Special Request from the This 'N That Thrift Shop:

The This 'N That Thrift Shop, founded in 1971 to address childcare issues at St. Luke's Community House, is remembering successes of the past while facing the challenges ahead.

The need for services continues to grow. Donations of clothing, household goods, books, jewelry, appliances (in good working order), furniture and other treasures top the list. It is a win-win situation; you get a place to bring everything you no longer need, along with a tax break, and we receive the much appreciated merchandise.

Donations may be dropped off at the shop, 5007 Georgia Avenue in Nashville. For larger items, call St. Luke's to arrange a pick-up.

Volunteers are also needed. Many of the workers have been faithful for a number of years, and some are unable to continue. It is a wonderful venue for people who can give only a few hours at a time, and the rewards are great. Call the Thrift Shop, 615-692-4032, to volunteer.

SUDANESE MINISTRY: 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, 297-1912, dwights@yahoo.com

WEST NASHVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: 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, 385-4176, plegrone@comcast.net

The Ecology Group pursues a focused ministry of Reflection, Education and Action that promotes: remembrance that every element of creation is a gift of God and a revelation of God, with the understanding that how we relate to the naturalworld reflects also our relationship with Go; a deepening knowledge of the theological and spiritual issues, as well as scientific and practical ecological issues; and a heightened awareness of our responsibility to live in ways that protect, heal and honor the integrity of God’s creation; leading to intentional changes in lifestyles that reflect a reverence for God’s creation. >>> Click for more Ecology Group information.