Mother’s Day 2011

I’m certain that everyone has a mother! That is a fact of life. So, with Mother’s Day just around the corner (May 8, 2011), what will you do for Mom on her special day? Instead of flowers, candy or an expensive card consider a gift in her honor or her memory to the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Homes. When the flowers have faded, the candy is gone and the card is forgotten your gift to TBCH will help make an eternal impact in the life of a child. It just may be best gift you will ever give to your mother! Happy Mother’s Day!

Dr. Jerry L. Winfield
Vice President of Development and Communications
Tennessee Baptist Children’s Homes

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Mother’s Day 2010

Mother’s Day is May 9, 2010.    To honor or remeber the special women in your life on this day AND help make a difference in the life of a child at TBCH, please click here to make a donation.

Your tax-deductible gift really does make a difference in lives of the children that call TBCH home.  For reasons like abuse, neglect, and abandonment, these children come to us to find safety, shelter, and most importantly love.  Your gift can change a life.

TBCH Chattanooga simulates poverty

Did you know that in 2008 Tennessee’s poverty rate was 15.5% according to the U.S. Census Bureau?!  That puts us with the 9th highest poverty rate in the United States.

Tennessee Baptist Children’s Homes in Chattanooga hosted a Poverty Simulation conducted by the University of TN at Chattanooga (UTC) Department of Child Welfare on Monday, February 08, 2010.  This Simulation is part of the training conducted by UTC for the Department of Children’s Services and community partners.  Approximately 100 people took part in the simulation as either participants for training or as volunteers.  TBCH had four staff participating for training.  They were each assigned to a family group where they would role play situations which families in poverty battle with each day.  That could involve getting food, finding assistance for housing or trying to gain social services.  Four other TBCH staff volunteered for the project as store clerks, childcare providers or even as someone in the community with, should we say, less than pure motives for helping.  The Simulation lasted three hours including time to debrief for all the participants.

Jeff Martin, a house dad on the Chattanooga campus, participated in the event. He said, “It made me realize what a lot of people go through.  It was an eye opener.  In my simulation I was late for work the first day I got fired the second and put in jail.  I ‘m so thankful for all we have here at The Children’s Home.”

Nashville Praise Symphony and TBCH

TBCH is more than excited about the upcoming benefit concert by the Nashville Praise Symphony.  NPS is an auditioned group of skilled musicians.  Its goal is to perform benefit concerts for Christian organizations to bring awareness and funding to further their ministries.  You can read more about NPS and its conductor, Camp Kirkland, here.

We are hoping this concert will become a yearly tradition and create a wonderful partnership between NPS and TBCH.

Saturday, March 13, 2010
7:00 pm
FBC Hendersonville
105 Bluegrass Commons Blvd.
Hendersonville, TN  37075

TBCH loves volunteers

Can you believe we are nearing the end of February?  Two months of 2010 already behind us.  That means May and the Mother’s Day Offering will be here before we know it!

The office is hustling and bustling today with our fabulous group of women who come to help us with our Mother’s Day Offering mailout every year!  Johnnie and Phyllis Hall help coordinate this group of 20 women from local churches. They help get letters and catalogs out to all the churches, pastors, WMU leaders, and mission directors.  With this mailing AND the one they helped us with in January to get the Annual Report out, they will have helped stuffed about 11,000 envelopes!  We absolutely could not get all of this done with out them!

Thank you ladies, and thank you to all of our volunteers.  Interested in getting involved at the campus nearest you? Visit our website to find out how!

Tailgating for TBCH

Each year, West End Baptist Church of the William Carey Association hosts a UT v. AL Tailgate Party benefiting TBCH.  This “Roll Tide” party collects paper goods and laundry detergent…get it…rolls of toilet paper and Tide detergent?!?!?!  Clever!  Here are the totals from this years tailgate:

1979 rolls of toilet paper
1091 rolls of paper towels
      11 boxes of tissue
        1 box of dryer sheets
        2 bottles of fabric softener
   392 bottles/boxes of detergent

Thank you so much West End and the William Carey Association supporting TBCH year after year!

TBCH thanks Sale Creek Baptist Church

Sale Creek Baptist Church raised over $3000 for TBCH and used these funds to purchase food for the Chattanooga Campus.  Sale Creek Baptist’s children take up an offering each Sunday for the children at TBCH and use these funds for this annual donation.  We are so grateful for their support of our ministry.

TBCH alum says “Thank You”

Each year at the Tennessee Baptist Convention in November we have one of our former residents share their story.  It’s a great way to allow the people who support TBCH hear about what we do and how the Lord uses this ministry to change lives.  This year we were pleased to have Officer Tippit of Williamson County share his story.  His story is also featured in our brand new DVD.

click here to read about his story

click here to order our new DVD

girls give back

Angie, the house mom in Stow Cottage on our Chattanooga campus, took a few girls from the campus to visit an Alsheimer’s Unit before Christmas.  I know the men and women at the unit appreicated the time the girls took to come and visit them.  The girls were happy to give back  some of the blessings they have been given.