Ministry with senior adults isn’t just a Sunday-morning calling for two Nashville-area United Methodist churches. Weekday clubs for senior adult member and community residents are key ministries for Hillcrest and Gordon Memorial. Gordon Memorial’s Best Years Club provides programming, meals, transportation, and everyday necessities while Hillcrest’s Sunny Day Club provides respite for caregivers and a regular outing for club members …
Nashville’s Calvary UMC Holy Smokers Paul Cole, Mackey Luffman, and Tommy Leek tend the grills at a summer cookout. Ranging in age from 6 to 85, volunteers from the church’s feeding ministry provided more than 1,290 meals in 2019 to area homeless, low income, and workforce populations. A $5,000 Golden Cross Foundation grant helped fund meals for older adult ministries …
Residents in the Pulaski, Tennessee, area receive free health screenings during a recent Back to School Health Fair. Since 2017, Martin Methodist College nursing students and faculty have held more than 900 screenings in the Middle Tennessee area as part of the college’s rural health initiative. The initiative is funded in part by a grant from the Golden Cross Foundation. …