At Peace Lutheran Church we partner with a wide assortment of non-profit agencies to do God’s work with our hands.
Ordinary gifts, when used to help others .... extraordinary!
Ordinary gifts, when used to help others .... extraordinary!
Building Communities
CareKits
CareKits are gallon sized ziploc bags filled with toiletries, socks, hats, gloves, t-shirts, and gift cards. We keeps CareKits in our cars and give them to folks asking forhelp.
Blood Assurance
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We work with Blood Assurance several times a year to host blood drives. Each unit of blood donated saves 3 lives. All of the blood donated supports our local hospitals.
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Supporting PRIDE Nashville / Franklin / Columbia, TN
We show up for community events that supports crossing barriers and building friendships such as PRIDE.
The Well
We support The Well (Spring Hill's food pantry) by donating food and raising money through our annual Eggstravaganza. We also donate to their Birthday Bags program.
Caring for Creation
We care for our planet by maintaining bee hives, collecting honey, and recycling.
ShowerUp
ShowerUp believes that everyone deserves a shower. With their mobile shower units strives build relationships, restore hope and dignity, and show the love of God to those in need by providing them with shower services and personal care.
Inspiritus
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Inspiritus is a non-profit which provides empowerment services to the Nashville area such as a food bank and community based educational programming. We collect supplies and fulfill Christmas gift requests through our Angel Tree program.
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Spring Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens
Peace partners with Spring Hill Funeral Home to host a free children's Easter Egg Hunt each year. We also manage an Adult Egg Hunt with proceeds benefitting The Well Food Bank. This event takes place during Holy Week to tie together death and resurrection.
Bridging Continents
Lunches for Learning
Each year we raise the funds to provide daily school lunches at Santa Rita in Francisco Morazan. We enjoy being a part of their graduation ceremonies at the end of the school year in November. Lunches for Learning exists to break the cycle of poverty in rural Honduras by providing a healthy lunch to elementary school children every school day at their school; thereby allowing these children to stay in school so they can complete their education and enter the workforce as literate individuals.
Sew 'n sews
Sew ‘n Sews: Typically meets the 2rd Wednesday of each month to make around 100 quilts each year. These quilts are then sent to Lutheran World Relief who ships them all over the world. The ultimate purpose of a Quilt is to provide warmth, an essential need for people in every climate. In addition to being a cozy, clean new bed cover, these Quilts, provide comfort to people we have never met, but they are also an object that is useful in ways you probably never imagined.
Blessing of the Backpacks and School Kits
Each fall as school is resuming, students of all ages are invited to bring their backpacks to worship for a blessing. Because we are blessed to be a blessing after worship 100 school kits are assembled for Lutheran World Relief. Women at Peace make the bags and the congregation pitches in to gather the 400 notebooks, 500 pencils, 500 pens, crayons, scissors, pencil sharpeners and erasers needed for the kits. Lutheran World Relief then sends the school kits all around the world to places where a child’s education is disrupted through war, natural disaster or poverty.
Building Friendships with Turkish Muslim Immigrants
It is our duty and our joy to cross barriers of religion, culture and language to build friendships with our Turkish Muslim brothers and sisters. We have been a part of Iftar meals with them. Together we celebrated Thanksgiving. We have discovered that we have so many things in common.
St. John's Lutheran Church in Oberhausen, Germany
Peace Lutheran Church is very excited about our partnership with St. John's. About every two years there is a two week visit. Either they visit us here or we visit them in Oberhausen. This is an opportunity to experience first hand how each church is engaged in their community.
