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Agape International Mission
Agape International Missions (AIM) is doing whatever it takes to rescue, heal, and empower survivors of trafficking to be free. For over 17 years, AIM has been fighting trafficking through a holistic approach of preventing sexual slavery and rescuing, restoring and reintegrating survivors. We exist to glorify God through our dedicated efforts to love, protect, and care for survivors. We …
AncoraTN
AncoraTN (formerly End Slavery Tennessee) exists to nurture survivor healing and strategically combat human trafficking in Tennessee. AncoraTN (ATN) works toward this mission by providing specialized case management and comprehensive aftercare for human trafficking survivors. ATN also strategically combats human trafficking through advocacy, prevention, and training of frontline professionals. At the beginning of 2023, they changed the name with the goal …
Begin Anew
Begin Anew offers adult education programming at four campus locations: downtown Nashville (since 1997, women only), Madison (2007), Woodbine (2016), and Franklin (2007). All campuses except for the downtown Nashville Campus, serve men and women. Our adult student population is primarily ages 18 and above. They provide opportunities for adult students to earn their High School Equivalency (HSE), improve English …
Blood:Water
Blood:Water is a local ministry motivated by the love of Christ to serve and support local African leaders and join them in the fight to help end the HIV/AIDS and water crises in sub-Saharan Africa. Blood:Water works to uphold the dignity of the people and communities they serve by coming alongside their vision for change and providing the financial, technical …
Convoy of Hope
Convoy of Hope is a humanitarian, faith-based organization on a mission to serve people who are impoverished, hungry and hurting.They offer children’s feeding initiatives, community outreach, and disaster response in partnership with local churches, businesses, civic organizations and government agencies. For more information, visit: https://convoyofhope.org. Find out more about the missions we support here.
Cottage Cove Urban Ministries
Cottage Cove Urban Ministries provides educational opportunities, life skills classes, and training in the arts to at-risk children and youth. They have free daily programs at three sites in Nashville. The Village Chapel has been a valued partner with Cottage Cove for many years. TVC volunteers have helped complete a host of projects enhancing programs or preparing for new programs, …
Daystar Counseling Ministries
Daystar Counseling Ministries, Inc. seeks to offer the hope of Christ to children, adolescents and families in need. Counseling services are offered on a sliding scale system, based on a family’s or individual’s ability to pay. Through individual and group counseling, summer camp programs, leadership training and parenting seminars, Daystar is dedicated to serving the greater Nashville area, as well …
Faith Family Medical Center
Faith Family Medical Center exists to provide the residents of greater Nashville who do not have health insurance with affordable, quality primary medical care. With a low-cost primary care provider available to them, people will be able to seek out medical care at the onset of any problems.Treatment can then begin early-on instead of after their conditions have become more complicated. Driven by faith, …
Final Command Ministries
In response to God, Final Command Ministries exists to catalyze disciple-making movements. In Northern Africa, they have been called by God to the least-reached Muslim people groups. They bring the shalom of Jesus where it does not exist. This involves water projects where there is no clean water, training indigenous workers in village medicine, helping agricultural projects, etc. From these …
Front Porch Ministries
In 2004, Thom and Michele Hazelip bought a home in inner-city Nashville, only a few blocks from the housing projects in East Nashville. Shortly thereafter, they opened their front porch, as well as the rest of their home and personal lives, in Christian ministry to the at-risk kids and families of the area. Today, Front Porch Ministry is a thriving …
Hands and Feet Project
Every day in Haiti children experience the poverty-driven cycles of neglect, abandonment, trafficking, and slavery because families lack access to social services, job stability, medical care and quality education. Hands and Feet Project is a group of passionate child and family advocates working to break these cycles by fighting to keep families together through support services and job creation, providing …
Hope Clinic for Women
Hope Clinic for Women is celebrating 40 years of providing life-affirming support and care for women facing unplanned pregnancy, offering affordable women’s healthcare, professional counseling, and relationship education. Their team of nurses, counselors, case managers, nurse practitioners, sonographers, educators and volunteers serve over 4,000 individuals a year. They believe that every person is made in the image of God and …
Inglewood Elementary School
Established in 1929, Inglewood Elementary School has deep roots in the East Nashville community and many generations of alumni. Their current enrollment is 208 students Pre-K-4th grade with 42% of those students qualified as economically disadvantaged. TVC has been a supportive partner to Inglewood Elementary School since 2016. For the 5th year in a row, TVC Kids will be preparing …
Interfaith Dental
Interfaith Dental is a volunteer-driven nonprofit agency that helps vulnerable populations achieve and sustain a healthy smile. The ministry offers a program giving oral health services to those experiencing low-incomes with no insurance. The mission is fulfilled in lives transformed, improvements in employability, improved sense of well-being, health outcomes, decreased emergency room visits, and chronic disease improvement. TVC’s donations ensure …
International Justice Mission
International Justice Mission (IJM) is a global organization partnering with local justice systems to end violence against people living in poverty. They find victims of violence, forced labor, or sex trafficking, then bring them to safety and walk alongside them until they are restored. IJM also works to ensure that traffickers, rapists and other criminals go to jail, so they cannot …
Justice & Mercy International
Justice & Mercy International exists to make justice personal for the poor, the orphaned and the forgotten of the world, offering programs that have the Good News of Jesus at their core. JMI primarily works in Moldova in Eastern Europe to care for vulnerable and special needs children and to provide homes and futures for teenagers who are at risk of being trafficked. In the …
Langham Partnership
Like their founder, John Stott, Langham Partnership believes that every church deserves a well-trained pastor. That’s why Langham trains grassroots preachers to clearly teach Scripture, they develop and distribute literature in the right language and context, and they support theological studies for emerging biblical scholars who bring hope to hard places. This past year Langham’s programs provided 73,468 grassroots pastors, emerging …
Legacy Mission Village
Legacy Mission Village (LMV) is an organization founded by refugees for refugees. The mission is to provide hope and healing to refugees in the Middle Tennessee area by empowering refugees with education and skills to achieve stability and thereby facilitating successful integration into American society. Legacy Mission Village offers services for the whole family—serving individual family members separately and also …
Men of Valor
Men of Valor’s mission is to win men in prison to Jesus Christ and to disciple them on an ongoing basis, equipping them to reenter society as men of integrity—becoming givers to the community rather than takers. TVC supports Men of Valor financially which helps to provide faith-based pre-release programs in three prisons in Middle Tennessee, transitional housing and aftercare for up to one …
Miles McKee Ministries
Miles McKee Ministries exists to proclaim the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. They work with pastors mainly in India and Africa, teaching them to proclaim the gospel. They have an orphanage in Yadgir, India where they raise boys up in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus. TVC’s support has enabled Miles McKee Ministries to translate gospel writings into …
Nashville Rescue Mission
Established in 1954, Nashville Rescue Mission is a Christ-centered community committed to helping the hungry, homeless, and hurting by providing programs and services that focus on a person’s entire life—physical, mental spiritual, emotional and social. They are devoted to restoring the whole person through a Christian approach that helps the homeless and addicted learn how much God loves them and …
Porter’s Call
The heart behind Porter’s Call comes from the ancient Rules of St. Benedict from the 5th Century AD. One of those rules stated that inside the city gates there would live a porter. A porter was in charge of hospitality. When a sojourner came to the door, he’d call out “Thanks be to God” and would then proceed to help …
PR Ministries
PR Ministries is a non-profit ministry to artists and their families. They walk alongside to encourage their spiritual health and their well-being. It is their goal to support and challenge them in their walk of faith and intimacy with our Father God, to grow and nurture their walk. They encourage them to get plugged into a local church. TVC’s support …
Project Connect Nashville
Project Connect Nashville exists to break the poverty cycle through relationship, resources, and education in partnership with the local church. Their desire is to build relationships with individuals stuck in the cycle of poverty and connect them to the faith community. Poverty is not just a lack of financial resources, it’s brokenness in all areas of a person’s life. This …
Room in the Inn
Room in the Inn provides programs that emphasize human development and recovery through education, self-help and work, centered in community and long-term support for those who call the streets of Nashville home. Through the power of spirituality and the practice of love, they provide hospitality with a respect that offers hope in a community of non-violence. TVC, partnering with First …
RUF at Belmont
Belmont RUF is a campus ministry that exists to reach Belmont students for Christ and equip them to serve through Tuesday Night Large Group, numerous weekly small groups, and other events and activities. Rev. Kevin Twit (campus minister) and his wife Wendy (part-time staff) along with a full-time staff member and two interns meet regularly with students as well. TVC’s …
Safe Haven Family Shelter
Safe Haven Family Shelter has as its mission to lead our community’s efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness. They have 37 years of experience in the changing field of family homelessness with proactive programs, evidence-based practices and trauma-informed care. They increasingly play a leadership role in education and advocacy to address this community-wide issue. Safe …
Salama Urban Ministries
Salama Urban Ministries is committed to improving each child’s life trajectory through Christ-centered academic enrichment, performing arts and character development. They are committed to the continuous development of their students intellectually, creatively, socially and spiritually. TVC’s contributions ensure that Salama is able to provide their teachers and students quality programming and materials. Last year, TVC helped make sure Salama students and families received a …
Samaritan’s Purse
Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God’s love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote …
Siloam Health
Siloam is a faith-based, charitably funded nonprofit that provides whole-person health care for the culturally marginalized. Siloam Health’s mission is to share the love of Christ by serving those in need through health care. Their three areas of focus are medical care, community health and student education. Siloam is grateful for their longstanding ministry partnership with The Village Chapel. Funding …
The Bridge
The Bridge was formed in 1998 by Tom & Patty Lane with Mike & Nancy Demus and has two components: Revive Youth Camps and international missions. The biannual Revive Youth Camps on the Gulf Coast and in Middle Tennessee have changed thousands of lives, drawing junior and senior high school youth closer to Jesus. However, Revive is more than camps; …
The Joseph School
Located in Cabaret, Haiti, The Joseph School equips Haitian children with discipleship in Christ and an education based in leadership focused on service. Now with grades 1-7, their culturally committed curriculum emphasizes leadership skills, critical thinking, and trade applications. They value celebrating Haitian culture while giving students the skills they need to compete in a global marketplace. A graduate of …
The Next Door
The Next Door provides a continuum of evidence-based substance abuse and mental health services for women in an environment of faith and healing to restore hope and a lifetime of recovery. The Village Chapel has partnered with The Next Door for a number of years. Our donations help to provide women who are uninsured or underinsured with treatment regardless of …
Touchstone Youth Resource Services
Founded by current TVC members Jim & Melony Weber back in 1987, the mission of Touchstone Youth Resource Services is to inspire change by helping youth envision a hopeful future, embrace positive options, and engage in real steps toward a better life. Our community is at risk…of losing teens to discouragement, despair, and sadly, even death. The work of Touchstone …
Village of Hope Uganda
Village of Hope is where God transforms children of war into children of HOPE! Village of Hope was birthed after seeing destitute, abused, poverty stricken orphans who were used as soldiers and sex slaves due to the Lord’s Resistance Army war. Village of Hope, led by God, started by bringing food, clothing, and medical treatment, yet there was more to …
World Vision
Founded in 1950, World Vision is an international Christian humanitarian organization that demonstrates God’s unconditional love for all people, primarily by tackling poverty and injustice. World Vision provides emergency assistance during national disasters and civil conflict and they work with communities to develop lasting solutions to the root causes of poverty and injustice. They provide education, access to clean water, …
Young Life Capernaum
Young Life Capernaum gives young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities the chance to experience fun and adventure, to develop fulfilling friendships, and to challenge their limits while building self-esteem through club, camp and other exciting activities. Young Life Capernaum creates ministry spaces where teens and young adults with disabilities can meet Jesus and grow in their faith. Through friendships …
Yuri Pozhidaev
Yuri Pozhidaev is a Russian pastor with a passion for seeing the lives of Russian young people transformed through their relationship with Jesus Christ. He is a senior pastor and founder of Paradigm Church in Moscow, which has celebrated its 23rd anniversary. As part of the ministry, Yuri leads two home groups, one of which focuses on young people so …