Missions

“We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve.  For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors.  We love.  We go.  We serve.”  –John Stott

At The Village Chapel, we realize the Christian church does not exist merely for itself. We are here first and foremost to glorify God, and then second, to become the arms of Jesus reaching out to a broken and hurting world.
This outreach-minded mission requires two things: words and deeds. The words of the Christian mission proclaim the good news of God’s grace offered in Christ Jesus. The deeds of the Christian mission involve reaching out in love to help the helpless, to bring comfort to the grieving, to bring justice to the oppressed and relief to the poor.
As a church, we live this out by giving away 15 percent of the tithes and offerings we take in to assist worthy organizations in their ongoing work. This means that through your generous financial support of The Village Chapel, you already support dozens of ministries, both local and international. These include a wide range of ministries that focus on the important works of evangelism, justice and mercy.
For information on the dozens of specific missions organizations TVC supports financially, CLICK HERE.
Our Missions Board also exists to make individuals at TVC aware of opportunities to give of their time and talents. From our Second Saturdays of City Service as well as annual TVC events like our Local Missions & Volunteer Fair and International Missions and Missions Trips Fair, they do all they can to help you put hands and feet on your faith.

Missions Highlight: Salama Urban Ministries

For more than 30 years, Salama has served the Greater Nashville area by providing robust programs to help youth thrive, regardless of barriers. They partner with families in need to help them reach God-given dreams for their children. Salama runs an extended learning program five days a week during the school year and a sic week session (9.5 hours daily) during the summer. They strive to develop K-12 students into leaders, investing up to 650 hours a year per student in academics, the performing arts, and spiritual development in the Christian faith.

Find out more about the missions we support here.

Room In The Inn

Each year, we gather together as a church alongside our ministry partner Room In The Inn to serve local homeless by hosting them overnight at First Baptist Church downtown. We need more than 50 volunteers to make this ministry opportunity possible. Beginning Sunday afternoon, February 2 (Super Bowl Sunday), and running through the next morning, we’ll serve dinner, snacks, breakfast and send the men off with sack lunches. There are opportunities to provide food in advance as well as serve on site. Sign up to serve below.

If you need assistance signing up, please email [email protected] or visit the Info Table on Sunday morning at either campus.

 

Christmas Missions Project 2018

Thanks to your participation, we were able to collect nearly 450 items for local ministries and those in need. You bought and donated everything from Christmas trees and decorations to giant print Bibles, hygiene items, bedding and gift cards to benefit men, women, orphans, families and human trafficking survivors. TVC Kids also collected dozens of non-perishable food items for the Family Food Boxes at Inglewood Elementary.


TVC Support for Refugees

TVC is committed to loving the poor, the weak and the vulnerable as directed by scripture. When acute local, national and global needs are brought to our attention, we respond as we are able. The plight of more than 65 million refugees in the US and around the world is an ongoing need that has received additional attention lately. The Village Chapel already provides ongoing financial support to several organizations that serve refugee populations here and abroad, but as the crisis grows, we made the decision to provide some additional funding to help trusted organizations who are equipped and on the ground to respond to these special needs.

TVC’s Servant Leadership Council recently voted unanimously to send an additional $30,000 in relief for refugees. Those funds are being divided among the following local, national and international organizations: Siloam Health, Legacy Mission Village, World Relief, International Teams, Samaritan’s Purse and Convoy of Hope. We chose these organizations because we have an ongoing relationship with them and know that they are already doing the work and caring for these vulnerable people. These gifts are coming out of the overall missions’ budget (TVC always sets aside 15 percent off the top of all tithes for missions), and the money is only available thanks to your faithful giving.For those who would like to get personally involved, our Second Saturdays of City Service regularly offer TVCers the opportunities to serve locally with organizations like Siloam Health and Legacy Mission Village, who work with refugees on a daily basis.

TVC Missions Board

Sandy Cherry

Cora Cluver

Chase Denson

Scott Hatcher

Susan Love

Melissa Martin

Ed Russell 

Lindsay Sledge

Larry Stone

Lauren To

Jim Thomas

Brandon Williams

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