The mission of this ministry is to fulfill James 1:27 by serving orphans, widows, and Christian adoptive families. They help Christian adoptive families fund their adoptions by coordinating service projects to fix up widows’ homes.
FAM (Foster and Adoption Ministry)
We may not all be called to foster or adopt, but we are all called to care! Brentwood Baptist Church’s Foster and Adoption Ministry (FAM) walks with individuals, families, children, and organizations as we seek to care well for children in need. Some of us will open our hearts and homes, while others may serve as a support system for foster and adoptive families. Regardless of where you may see your next steps, there is a place for you in the FAM. If you are interested in learning more about FAM, please fill out this form.
Located in Franklin, this ministry serves at-risk children in Williamson County. Six days a week, school-age children (grades 1-12) are picked up from their neighborhood, tutored, fed, taught life and job skills, and mentored by Christian volunteers.
Through living in the neighborhood, this ministry seeks to make a long-term impact on the lives of kids and single mothers. In 2004, Thom and Michele Hazelip bought a home in inner-city Nashville only a few blocks from the projects. In a short amount of time, they opened their home and front porch to provide care and support to kids and single moms.
Hope’s Bridge keeps displaced children out of the foster system with a non-custodial alternative. Hope’s Bridge works with the Department of Children’s Services to place children in Christ-centered homes until reunification or adoption can be achieved. Our purpose is to love, serve, and live in community with families who have boldly opened their homes to these vulnerable children in the name of Jesus Christ.
This project works with kids (pre-K through 12th grade) living in Franklin Estates, a mobile home community in downtown Franklin, to guide them on a path towards graduation and realizing their God-given dreams for their future.
TAK meets the emergent and ongoing needs of children and youth in foster care, those at-risk of going into foster care, and those aging out of the system. This donor-funded organization serves as the liaison between the community and State of Tennessee.
Each year, YES gives hundreds of low-income families the opportunity to shop for their children during the holidays. Each mother selects an outfit and new toys for each child in her home, and she receives a gift card and large box of groceries for a complete holiday meal.
This ministry is a branch of the global ministry of Young Life that seeks to build meaningful relationships with teens with intellectual and developmental disabilities, introduce them to Jesus Christ, and help them walk in their faith. YLC volunteer leaders meet these teens where they are and build friendships with them in hopes of sharing the love that Jesus has for them.
Nashville YoungLives is Young Life’s local ministry for teen moms. We engage in relationships with pregnant and parenting teens and their babies by entering their world, displaying the unconditional love of Christ, and calling them into their role as women and mothers who have been deeply purposed by God.
Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home
TBCH provides Bible-based, Christ-centered residential, foster, and family care. Programs are approved by the State of Tennessee, but TBCH does not accept funding from the government. Their ministry exists and continues because of the generosity and support of churches and private donors.
This clinic equips women, men, and families dealing with unplanned pregnancies, pregnancy loss, postpartum depression, and more. They also provide medical care, professional counseling, education classes, mentorship, and practical support regardless of age, race, religion, or ability to pay.
This ministry facilitates Christ-centered relationships between individuals from diverse racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds through an equally diverse platform of artistic, athletic, and team-building programs to reflect God’s pursuit of His children through interests and passions, interpersonal relationships, and equipping students with tools for exploring and discovering God’s presence in their lives.
This adult education ministry serves the working poor in Middle Tennessee. Students leave the program with a strong belief in Christ and a confidence in themselves to create a better life. Volunteers partner with students to encourage, pray, and help them reach their goals.
Carter Lawrence Elementary Magnet School (CLEMS)
This school partnership addresses the needs of students, families, and staff. Volunteers give help through mentorships, prayer support, food distribution, and more.
Decisions, Choices and Options
This ministry exists to empower girls to reach their full potential through educational programs, mentoring, counseling, and community activities. We focus on defining our past and recognizing how it can shape us while not allowing it to define our futures. We believe every girl is one meaningful connection away from becoming the hero she is meant to be.
Located in Franklin, this ministry serves at-risk children in Williamson County. Six days a week, school-age children (grades 1-12) are picked up from their neighborhood, tutored, fed, taught life and job skills, and mentored by Christian volunteers.
This ministry reaches out to incarcerated men and helps them re-enter society as men of integrity. The ministry goals are evangelism, relationship-building, discipleship, and equipping men to become the men, husbands, fathers, and members of society God created them to be.
This project works with kids (pre-K through 12th grade) living in Franklin Estates, a mobile home community in downtown Franklin, to guide them on a path towards graduation and realizing their God-given dreams for their future.
This ministry builds relationships with individuals and families who are stuck in the cycle of poverty by connecting them to the faith community. As a community, we come alongside to encourage and guide them, aid when needed, and educate and equip them for life and new opportunities.
Each year, YES gives hundreds of low-income families the opportunity to shop for their children during the holidays. Each mother selects an outfit and new toys for each child in her home, and she receives a gift card and large box of groceries for a complete holiday meal.
Warner Arts Magnet Elementary School
This school partnership addresses the needs of students, families, and staff. Volunteers give help through outreaches, prayer support, food distribution, and more.
Located in Nashville’s Woodbine neighborhood, Whitsitt Elementary is a microcosm of our city: a vibrant, growing community with a diverse population of students from all walks of life, including English Language Learners (mostly Spanish speakers) who are making gains and integrating into the community.
This is a Christ-centered ministry that desires to reach the lost in Guatemala. They assist with discipleship and education, as well as provide for physical needs such as medical and dental care, school supplies, needs around the home, and much more.
FAM (Foster and Adoption Ministry)
We may not all be called to foster or adopt, but we are all called to care! Brentwood Baptist Church’s Foster and Adoption Ministry (FAM) walks with individuals, families, children, and organizations as we seek to care well for children in need. Some of us will open our hearts and homes, while others may serve as a support system for foster and adoptive families. Regardless of where you may see your next steps, there is a place for you in the FAM. If you are interested in learning more about FAM, please fill out this form.
This ministry provides mentor sessions to children and young adults who have experienced trauma and other life challenges. The ranch also serves as a foster home for horses in Middle Tennessee recovering from abuse and neglect. Participants can assist in rehabilitating and caring for these horses.
This clinic equips women, men, and families dealing with unplanned pregnancies, pregnancy loss, postpartum depression, and more. They also provide medical care, professional counseling, education classes, mentorship, and practical support regardless of age, race, religion, or ability to pay.
This ministry extension of Brentwood Baptist Church began in 2013. It is a mobile unit customized to provide free, limited medical and dental care to those in need, all for the purpose of sharing the gospel.
Mercy Community Healthcare exists to reflect the love and compassion of Jesus Christ by providing excellent healthcare to all and offering support to their families.
This faith-based, non-profit organization shares the love of Christ by providing low-cost, high-quality, whole-person care to the uninsured in Middle Tennessee as well as health promotion among the immigrant and refugee communities.
This is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving women in crisis, equipping them for lives of wholeness and hope. The Next Door provides services to women who have been impacted by addiction, mental illness, trauma, and incarceration.
From a destructive way of life in addiction to alcohol and drugs to an abstinence-based, sober-living community of healing and wholeness, men who enter Welcome Home Ministries’ alcohol and drug recovery program are welcomed in with open arms, compassion, and grace. Welcome Home Ministries is built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ. Our missions is “to enter worlds of brokenness in order that all might experience wholeness in Jesus Christ.”
This ministry facilitates Christ-centered relationships between individuals from diverse racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds through an equally diverse platform of artistic, athletic, and team-building programs to reflect God’s pursuit of His children through interests and passions, interpersonal relationships, and equipping students with tools for exploring and discovering God’s presence in their lives.
This adult education ministry serves the working poor in Middle Tennessee. Students leave the program with a strong belief in Christ and a confidence in themselves to create a better life. Volunteers partner with students to encourage, pray, and help them reach their goals.
This is a Christ-centered ministry that desires to reach the lost in Guatemala. They assist with discipleship and education, as well as provide for physical needs such as medical and dental care, school supplies, needs around the home, and much more.
English as a Second Language (ESL)
The Church at Station Hill offers free English classes each Sunday night from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. and each Wednesday morning from 9:30 -11:30 a.m. with classes for beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners. Our teachers have been through a certification process and are eager to help their students learn the skills needed to be successful in an English-speaking environment. Volunteering with ESL is an excellent way to cross cultures and make friends with amazing people you may not otherwise encounter.
The Church at Station Hill offers a Spanish-language LIFE Group each Sunday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. This group meets for both worship and Bible study, and children are welcome. For more information, contact Eloy Saban: [email protected].
FAM (Foster and Adoption Ministry)
We may not all be called to foster or adopt, but we are all called to care! Brentwood Baptist Church’s Foster and Adoption Ministry (FAM) walks with individuals, families, children, and organizations as we seek to care well for children in need. Some of us will open our hearts and homes, while others may serve as a support system for foster and adoptive families. Regardless of where you may see your next steps, there is a place for you in the FAM. If you are interested in learning more about FAM, please fill out this form.
The mission of this ministry is to work through the platforms of economics, education, social services, advocacy, and culture to provide programs that strengthen Nashville’s Hispanic community.
International Leadership Coalition
This ministry helps discover and equip international leaders for transformational ministry in global cities.
Every winter, Mission Eurasia leaders visit families throughout the region, bringing happiness to children with Gifts of Hope. Each Gift of Hope contains delightful items such as sweets and toys as well as useful items like socks, mittens, and hygiene supplies. Most importantly, each one contains Scripture resources that tell children about God’s saving love. In 2021-22, Mission Eurasia’s School Without Walls program brought Gifts of Hope to more than 131,000 children in twelve post-Soviet countries. Many of these children have grown up knowing only war, misery, and deprivation. The Gifts of Hope they receive bring them unexpected joy and light in dark places.
This project works with kids (pre-K through 12th grade) living in Franklin Estates, a mobile home community in downtown Franklin, to guide them on a path towards graduation and realizing their God-given dreams for their future.
Based here in Nashville, Servant Group International has worked for over twenty years to encourage and equip the body of Christ to love and serve our Middle Eastern neighbors.
This faith-based, non-profit organization shares the love of Christ by providing low-cost, high-quality, whole-person care to the uninsured in Middle Tennessee as well as health promotion among the immigrant and refugee communities.
From a foundation of Christian values, this ministry serves struggling families and individuals of any ethnicity and culture in the Antioch community by helping them find paths to self-sufficiency through food support, education, and job assistance.
Our mission is to tend to the needs of the overlooked and underserved women of Middle Tennessee by providing safety, stability, and giving them hope and a plan for an independent future. Through discipleship, professional counseling services, and the love of Jesus in all areas, we help women build a support group to rely on for the rest of their lives.
From a foundation of Christian values, this ministry serves struggling families and individuals of any ethnicity and culture in the Antioch community by helping them find paths to self-sufficiency through food support, education, and job assistance.
This adult education ministry serves the working poor in Middle Tennessee. Students leave the program with a strong belief in Christ and a confidence in themselves to create a better life. Volunteers partner with students to encourage, pray, and help them reach their goals.
Located in Franklin, this ministry serves at-risk children in Williamson County. Six days a week, school-age children (grades 1-12) are picked up from their neighborhood, tutored, fed, taught life and job skills, and mentored by Christian volunteers.
This grace-driven, collaborative ministry is a dedicated community resource in Williamson County to help people with food, rent, utilities, and other needs. It’s neighbor serving neighbor by the power of God’s grace.
This clinic equips women, men, and families dealing with unplanned pregnancies, pregnancy loss, postpartum depression, and more. They also provide medical care, professional counseling, education classes, mentorship, and practical support regardless of age, race, religion, or ability to pay.
Nashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition
With more than forty churches represented, NAHT is a non-profit, multi-denominational missional community bringing the hope and healing of the gospel to all who have been impacted by the human trafficking industry. Their mission is to educate, engage, and embrace.
The Oak Cottage for Women exists to provide a safe residential home to help formerly incarcerated women re-enter society as productive citizens. We seek to create a balanced spiritual, physical, vocational, and emotional foundation for daily living through Christ-centered, compassionate care, and we provide women with tools to build this foundation. Isaiah 61 and Psalm 1 will serve as a guiding dream for this facility.
Inspired by the love and words of Jesus, we go where the most vulnerable of Nashville can be found to create a place for relief and cultivate a healthy community as well as bring education, development, and restoration. We also provide uncomplicated connection to solutions, both immediate and long-term.
This ministry builds relationships with individuals and families who are stuck in the cycle of poverty by connecting them to the faith community. As a community, we come alongside to encourage and guide them, aid when needed, and educate and equip them for life and new opportunities.
This ministry serves the homeless community in the Nashville area throughout the year. During the cold weather months, churches can help serve by hosting men, women, and families overnight. To serve on the Brentwood campus throughout the cold weather season, reach out to Van Moffatt.
We exist to share the hope and love of Jesus with women in the adult entertainment industry through club and text outreach and through workshops at our resource center. We are in need of female volunteers to go into the clubs with us and reach these precious women. Additionally, anyone can volunteer to pray for us on Thursdays while we’re in the clubs, join our food team, or partner with us for in-kind needs and food for our resource center. To get involved, email [email protected] or sign up to attend one of the bi-monthly volunteer orientations.
This faith-based, non-profit organization shares the love of Christ by providing low-cost, high-quality, whole-person care to the uninsured in Middle Tennessee as well as health promotion among the immigrant and refugee communities.
This ministry is working to raise up the refugee youth of Nashville into Christian leaders who are passionate about restoring their communities and advancing the Kingdom of God. The mission is to help refugee youth heal, learn, and direct their own future for good.
From a destructive way of life in addiction to alcohol and drugs to an abstinence-based, sober-living community of healing and wholeness, men who enter Welcome Home Ministries’ alcohol and drug recovery program are welcomed in with open arms, compassion, and grace. Welcome Home Ministries is built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ. Our missions is “to enter worlds of brokenness in order that all might experience wholeness in Jesus Christ.”
This ministry supports those in need through spiritual, emotional, and physical growth. Through their food pantry, they offer food assistance to residents of Spring Hill, Thompson’s Station, College Grove, Santa Fe, and parts of northern Columbia.
Williamson County Homeless Alliance (WCHA)
WCHA was founded in 2019. Its overall vision is to provide holistic services attending to mental health, housing, and employment needs.
The two-fold mission is to: 1) grow food, providing produce to those who live in food deserts and helping to alleviate hunger; and 2) grow people, offering part-time jobs, job readiness and life-skills training, and spiritual development to those who could use a second chance.
This ministry helps families in the Nashville and Middle Tennessee community who are facing food insecurity. Programs include food recovery, food distribution, and community care.
Located in Franklin, this ministry serves at-risk children in Williamson County. Six days a week, school-age children (grades 1-12) are picked up from their neighborhood, tutored, fed, taught life and job skills, and mentored by Christian volunteers.
International Bible Study
This grace-driven, collaborative ministry is a dedicated community resource in Williamson County to help people with food, rent, utilities, and other needs. It’s neighbor serving neighbor by the power of God’s grace.
This ministry builds relationships with individuals and families who are stuck in the cycle of poverty by connecting them to the faith community. As a community, we come alongside to encourage and guide them, aid when needed, and educate and equip them for life and new opportunities.
From a foundation of Christian values, this ministry serves struggling families and individuals of any ethnicity and culture in the Antioch community by helping them find paths to self-sufficiency through food support, education, and job assistance.
For those looking to adopt, foster or walk with a family as they are trying to restore their homes, you can find resources, support and encouragement.
For those interested in helping to support needs that come up during these times, you kind find ways to get involved. For the persons that are looking to be informed in trauma or advocate for hard stories, there is a place for you too.
Or if you have a heart for vulnerable children and thrive in events, administration, etc. there is a place for you as well.
To learn more, email Vicki Howell.
For more information on Disaster Relief, contact Dawn Bishop.
