“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 exist 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 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.

Below you will find information and links that will lead you to the websites of the various ministries and organizations that we support financially with the tithes and offerings entrusted to us here at The Village Chapel. There are a wide range of ministries that focus on the important works of evangelism, justice, and mercy. Just click on the name of each organization to see more information and click on their logos to visit their individual websites.

 

Organizations We Support

African Leadership

African Leadership

African Leadership is a Christian Education Organization offering Biblical Training for church leaders, and a Relief and Development Organization, meeting physical needs of the poor in 23 nations in Africa.  African Leadership’s primary focus is Pastoral and Church Leadership Training. This year, AL is training approximately 9,500 students in 21 African countries. Since they began in 1993, African Leadership has trained over 35,000 alumni, in over 30 countries.

Barefoot Republic Camp
Barefoot Republic Camp

Barefoot Republic Camp facilitates the development of Christ-centered relationships between individuals who represent diverse racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, through an equally diverse platform of artistic, athletic and team building programs.

Bethel Student Center
Bethel Student Center

The Bethel Student Center in Patzicia Guatemala is a Compassion project operated under the direction of Bethel Evangelical Church.  The 200 children who attend there are from very poor families whose monthly incomes range from $50-$150 per month. At the project the kids get augmentation to their public schooling through additional tutoring, skills training, sport activities, arts/crafts, health and dental care, medicines and vaccines, nutritional supplements, and spiritual input.  70% of these children are from un-churched homes.  They all receive a Bible in Spanish, as well as other Christian materials, and are regularly presented with the gospel.  Each child has a unique sponsor that provides the financial support for those activities, as well as the opportunities to correspond regularly, pray, and even meet their child.

 

Blood:Water Mission
Blood:Water Mission

Blood:Water Mission is a non-profit organization founded by the members of the multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning band, Jars of Clay, to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa.  Since 2004 BWM has funded 340 clean water solutions in 11 countries, delivering clean water to more than 276,000 people in Africa.

 

The Bridge
The Bridge

The Bridge - A Joseph Co. links artists with opportunities to serve through their gifts and talents.  A group of musicians with a passion for missions and evangelism who’ve helped launch training and equipping schools, events, festivals, worship conferences, and seminars around the world like:
Sozofestival.com  (Hungary)
Rockontherock.com (Italy)
TheCrucibleInternational.com (Nashville,TN)
Worship Together Conferences (USA)
Musico A Musico (USA, Argentina, Guatemala.

 

Casa Del Pastor
Casa Del Pastor

Led by Jeanie Sue Phegley, a missionary from Calvary Chapel San Bernardino, CA, Casa Del Pastor in San Vicente, Baja California, Mexico is a home for abused, abandoned, and violated moms and their children who need refuge from their abusers.  Located in San Vicente North Baja Mexico.  They feed and house 19 moms and 67 children.  Their new facility has just opened and will house up to 30 more moms plus their children.

 

Compassion International

 Compassion International

Sponsoring children in need is breaking the cycle of poverty.  Compassion International exists as a Christian child advocacy ministry that releases children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enables them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults. Founded by the Rev. Everett Swanson in 1952, Compassion began providing Korean War orphans with food, shelter, education and health care, as well as Christian training. Today, Compassion helps more than 1 million children in 24 countries.

 

Comprehensive Care Center
Comprehensive Care Center

The Comprehensive Care Center (CCC) is an HIV/AIDS not-for-profit outpatient medical clinic located in Nashville TN.  It s the largest provider of outpatient medical services to people living with HIV disease in the State of Tennessee; and one of the largest freestanding HIV clinics in the country.

 

Cottage Cove
Cottage Cove

Cottage Cove offers inner city children of Nashville a program including Bible studies, worship opportunities, music and art lessons, and free individual tutoring.  Providing educational opportunities for musical training, art, homemaking, childcare, and basic health needs.

Divine Inheritance
Divine Inheritance

Mission is Rescuing Child Soldiers.  Divine Inheritance (DI) has a historical presence spanning over 120 years of work with children and families in Southeast Asia. We exist to save these children, both girls and boys, from the army.  In the past two years alone, we have rescued over 100 child soldiers; we have plans to rescue many more in the coming years. Of the 200 boys and girls in our care whom we love, feed and educate, 150 are child soldiers.

End Slavery Tennessee

The mission of End Slavery Tennessee is to create slave-free communities across Tennessee. They operate under the covering of International Teams, a Christian mission ministering around the world to oppressed people.

Faith Family Medical Clinic
Faith Family Medical Clinic

The purpose of the Faith Family Medical Clinic is to provide the low-income residents of Nashville that do not have health insurance with affordable, quality primary medical care. The Clinic seeks to bring these Nashville residents a quality of healthcare that is enjoyed by the more affluent members of the Nashville community that have health insurance or can afford to pay the high costs of today's medical care.

GLOW Ministries International
GLOW Ministries International

GLOW is an acronym for God’s Love for Orphans and Widows.  GLOW was formed to share the Blessing with the most destitute of Haiti first, then the world.  For over thirty years they have been establishing an indigenous network of leaders who have been pouring themselves into positive development in Haiti.

Habitat For Humanity
Habitat For Humanity

Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity, building affordable housing communities.

Hands And Feet
Hands And Feet

Hands And Feet is a children's village in Jacmel, Haiti, that was started by the band Audio Adrenaline in 2004.  Mission is to care for orphans and to use pop culture to introduce the 1st world to the orphans of the world.

Hope Clinic for Women
Hope Clinic for Women

Hope Clinic for Women - Equipping people, since 1983, to make healthy choices with unplanned pregnancies, abstinence and past abortions.

International Justice Mission

 

International Justice Mission

 

International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to ensure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems.

Invisible Children

 

Invisible Children

 

Invisible Children improves the quality of life for war-affected children by providing access to quality education, enhanced learning environments, and innovative economic opportunities for the community.

Mercy Ministries

 

Mercy Ministries

 

For over 25 years, Mercy Ministries of America has provided hope and healing to generations of desperate young women who are seeking freedom from life-controlling problems such as:  Drug and alcohol addictions, depression, eating disorders, unplanned pregnancy, physical and Sexual abuse, and self harm.  A free-of-charge program serves a diverse population of young women from various socio-economic backgrounds, aged 13-28.

The Next Door
The Next Door

The Next Door is dedicated to helping women in crisis, 
equipping them to develop lives of wholeness and hope.   Addressing the physical, mental, spiritual and life skills needs of women and their children in two locations in Nashville, Tennessee.

PhilAid Foundation

 

PhilAid Foundation

 

PhilAid Foundation - Handicap Center Lourdes in Manila, Philippines cares for the most severe handicapped and forgotten orphans- most with multiple handicaps and some victims of botched abortions.

Room In The Inn
Room In The Inn

Room in the Inn works with 151 area congregations to provide food and shelter for 185-225 people each night during the coldest months of the year from November 1st through March 31st. Last year with the help of 27,232 volunteers, Room in the Inn congregations provided 26,737 beds and served 64,779 meals to their homeless guests.

Safe Haven

 

Safe Haven

 

The mission of Safe Haven Family Shelter is to empower homeless families with children to live independently through financial, social, and faith-based guidance. The shelter provides a temporary place to live, programming and services to Nashville’s homeless families.

Salama Urban Ministries

 

Salama Urban Ministries

 

For more than 20 years, Salama (Swahili word for peace) has served the Greater Nashville area through providing life-changing programs that equip children with skills needed for success in life and to nurture lives of integrity and hope through the foundation of faith.

Samaritan's Purse

 

Samaritan's Purse

 

Led by Franklin Graham, the work of Samaritan's Purse takes them throughout the world to extend the love of Jesus Christ to hurting people. For over 35 years, Samaritan's Purse has done their utmost to follow Christ's command by going to the aid of the world's poor, sick, and suffering. They are an effective means of reaching hurting people in countries around the world with food, medicine, and other assistance in the Name of Jesus Christ.

Siloam Family Health Center
Siloam Family Health Center

Siloam Family Health Center is committed to caring for the uninsured in Middle Tennessee by providing high-quality, affordable health care that meets the needs of the whole person -- physical, emotional and spiritual. Siloam’s health care program is designed to be culturally sensitive, preserve dignity and reflect our mission to share the love of Christ by serving those in need through health care. Staff, volunteers and donors carry out this ministry of health, healing and hope for those who are underserved and have few options for medical care. We conducted more than 16,000 patient encounters in 2007.

Sweet Sleep

 

Sweet Sleep

 

Sweet Sleep works with indigenous staff, churches and businesses to provide beds and bedding to orphaned and abandoned children in Moldova and Sudan.

The Villa and Katherine House

 

The Villa and Catherine House

 

The Villa and Katherine House provides mentoring and structure for individuals committed to establishing themselves as healthy, whole individuals actively involved in employment, community, and a growing relationship with Jesus.

World Vision

 

World Vision

 

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.