A number of the St. B's youth helped at our outreach partner, The Branch of Nashville, earlier in October. We are grateful for their service!

WHAT'S COMING UP AT ST. B'S?

The St. B's Justice Ministries is excited to offer The Nashville You Need to Know on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. in Wallace Hall starting this Sunday, Oct. 20. Nashville is a vibrant and growing city, and yet many of our neighbors are being left behind. Come and learn from our guest speakers about pressing issues for our most under-served and marginalized neighbors and how we can engage with these issues to better love our neighbors. If you miss a session, you can request the video of the class from the church front office.

Oct 20 - Health Equity
Oct 24 - Affordable Housing
Nov 3 – Transportation and Economic Equity 
Nov 10 - Criminal Justice
Nov 17 – Education
Nov 24 - Advocacy

The St. B's Justice Ministries is part of the local Coalition of Churches for Racial Justice, which is inviting interested persons to attend, "A Special Evening with Dr. Jemar Tisby & the Rev. Jim Wallis." This in-person conversation will cover how the teachings of Jesus speak to the heart of today's political, spiritual, and moral issues. This event will be held on Thursday, October 24, 6:30p.m. at Woodmont Hills Church at 3710 Franklin Pike, Nashville 37204. The event is free to the public, but registration is required.

We have listed many new volunteer opportunities with St. B's partners on our website!  You can also join us for our regular volunteer opportunities below! 

November: We serve at ShowerUp, a mobile shower site that assists people experiencing homelessness, on November 10, 2024 at 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Sign up here! We have two new slots for sandwich-making at home, which are perfect for families! (Please know that we are working hard with ShowerUp to ensure that there are not volunteer redundancies when we serve.) 

December: We serve at The Branch of Nashville, a food distribution and language center in Antioch, on Saturday, December 14, 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 pm. You can sign up here. Please fill out their volunteer form here if you have not done so before. 

WHAT ABOUT ROOM IN THE INN?

We are excited to announce that St. B's will host its thirty-ninth season of our Room in the Inn winter shelter on Saturday nights from November through March. There are many ways for you to serve: from preparing food, to staying overnight, to doing laundry!  Please sign-up here!  Questions?

The RITI ministry is also collecting gently-used, light-weight, reusable water bottles to offer our RITI guests so they can have more consistent access to water. Collection bins will be in the parish hall lobby on Sunday, Oct. 20 and Sunday, Oct. 27 for drop-off. Please cull through your water bottles today and donate extras to us!

The St. B's Creation Care Committee and Fellowship Committee have purchased reusable, dishwasher-safe plastic cups for all our needs! You'll see them out on Sunday mornings; at our receptions and parties; and whenever you are at church for a meeting or pickleball. Many thanks to all the volunteers who made space in our kitchen and closets for the new supply of cups!

Our Sunday morning coffee comes to us from Humphrey Street, a local social-enterprise that develops teens in under-resourced areas of Nashville through workplace readiness programs. You can buy your own coffee from them and 100% of the profits go to their programming and scholarships. Humphrey Street is part of Harvest Hands, a Christian community development organization, which also offers after-school programs and youth sports teams in South Nashville.

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