We are very excited about a great start to 2012! Here's what is happening every week at Nations Ministry Center:
Monday-Thursday 10:00AM-12:00 English School for Children (Preschool)
Monday-Thursday 4:00PM-5:30 Nations Academy (after-school tutoring)
Monday 5:00PM-7:00 Citizenship class
Tuesday 10:00AM-12:00 Citizenship class
Thursday 10:00AM-12:00 English class for women
Saturday 1:00PM-3:00 Citizenship class
And every day we provide social services and immigration support to more than 200 clients from 5 countries!
Come visit us at 4710 Charlotte Avenue. We have volunteer openings in most of our events.
1.30.2012
1.16.2012
New Home for Nations Ministry Center
Nations Ministry Center has a new home at 4710 Charlotte Avenue and 48th Avenue North.
8.23.2011
School is Back!
School is back and so is our English School for Children (also known as preschool). We are welcoming refugee preschool children Monday-Thursday, 10:30-12:00. Our theme this semester is Animal Kingdom and we are learning about alligators, bears, cats, dogs....all the way to zebras! We have volunteer openings on Wednesdays twice per month and every Thursday.
Our after-school tutoring program is getting back into the swing of things. We welcome Chad Harrington as the new coordinator of this program. On Wednesdays, tutoring begins at 2:30 and there are volunteer openings on this day as well as others. Let us know if you would like to join us. Call Chad at 615.916.1203.
We are also working with new clients from Congo and making Nashville a more welcoming place to newcomers. Join us in building a stronger Nashville by walking with refugees on the journey to self-sufficiency.
Our after-school tutoring program is getting back into the swing of things. We welcome Chad Harrington as the new coordinator of this program. On Wednesdays, tutoring begins at 2:30 and there are volunteer openings on this day as well as others. Let us know if you would like to join us. Call Chad at 615.916.1203.
We are also working with new clients from Congo and making Nashville a more welcoming place to newcomers. Join us in building a stronger Nashville by walking with refugees on the journey to self-sufficiency.
7.01.2011
VOTE FOR THE VAN!
Dear friends:
Nations Ministry Center is competing for a $25,000 Pepsi Refresh grant to purchase a van for our after-school program. Each month, Pepsi is giving away 60 grants to small nonprofits. Grants are awarded based on the number of votes each proposal receives in a single month.
You can VOTE FOR THE VAN two ways every day for the month of July!
1. Send a text to the phone number 73774 with the following message: 107399 .
2. Vote from your Facebook account every day or from a Pepsi account you can create here:
Nations Ministry Center is competing for a $25,000 Pepsi Refresh grant to purchase a van for our after-school program. Each month, Pepsi is giving away 60 grants to small nonprofits. Grants are awarded based on the number of votes each proposal receives in a single month.
You can VOTE FOR THE VAN two ways every day for the month of July!
1. Send a text to the phone number 73774 with the following message: 107399 .
2. Vote from your Facebook account every day or from a Pepsi account you can create here:
6.28.2011
This Week
Friends from Ensworth's Summer Service Camp and from a Texas Methodist mission program joined us today. The Ensworth group brought games for our preschoolers and the mission team helped with office work, brought some music to the preschool, and led the kids in math games during Math Mania!
6.22.2011
Math Mania!
Math Mania in full swing at the Refugee Center! We are having a blast working on our multiplication and basic math skills. We have twelve students coming ranging in age from rising Kindergarten to rising 8th grade. We are making math fun by playing games and winning prizes. The kids have been coming for up to five days and we can already see tons of improvement! They are truly getting ready to not just survive, but truly thrive in their Math classes when school starts back in August.
E. works on ready with one of our volunteers!
Two children learn their site words and their ABCs.
We are also working with the kids on their English skills. We are having such a great time! If you are interested in coming to volunteer for Math Mania, the dates left are June 23rd, June 27th-30th, July 11th-14th, and July 18th-2nd. We would love to have more volunteers for our kids to learn from! Email Charles at academy@nationsministrycenter.org for more information!
Nations Ministry Center
Welcome.Connect.Celebrate
E. works on ready with one of our volunteers!
Two children learn their site words and their ABCs.We are also working with the kids on their English skills. We are having such a great time! If you are interested in coming to volunteer for Math Mania, the dates left are June 23rd, June 27th-30th, July 11th-14th, and July 18th-2nd. We would love to have more volunteers for our kids to learn from! Email Charles at academy@nationsministrycenter.org for more information!
Nations Ministry Center
Welcome.Connect.Celebrate
6.17.2011
2 Students Enjoy Vacation Bible School at Harpeth Pres
Last week, two of our Iraqi children attended Vacation Bible School at Harpeth Presbyterian Church. They had a great week with tons of other children playing games, making crafts, and singing songs.
Music time was definitely a favorite part of the day. Our client, on the left, is jamming out to the week’s music.
At snack time, they tried a lot of new and different foods. popcorn at movie time was delicious.
Programs like VBS, where our kids can be around so many English speakers is a great thing. The more time our students can be around English speaking children, the more they will be inspired to learn.
Thanks Harpeth for hosting our students last week!
Music time was definitely a favorite part of the day. Our client, on the left, is jamming out to the week’s music.
At snack time, they tried a lot of new and different foods. popcorn at movie time was delicious.Programs like VBS, where our kids can be around so many English speakers is a great thing. The more time our students can be around English speaking children, the more they will be inspired to learn.
Thanks Harpeth for hosting our students last week!
6.15.2011
Math Mania Begins!
Math Mania began today with children from Eritrea, Iraq, and Burundi. We are excited to be honing math skills this summer with many refugee friends!
6.05.2011
This Week at Preschool
Summer has come indeed! We are loving the warm weather here at Nations! We are also loving have older kids to play with! Big boys and girls make the best play friends! Make this summer a family service summer at Nations!
This week (June 6th-9th) we are hosting middle schoolers from Harpeth Presbyterian Church. This means that even if you are planning to volunteer throughout the summer, please take this week as a break and a thank you for all you do for our clients.
We also are welcomed Ms. Anne Elise Cain as a summer intern this week. She will be at preschool Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday all summer!
Thank you all for your dedication this school year. We are glad to have summer, but we will miss those of you who are taking a break until the fall. You are each a true blessing to our program, and more importantly, our precious little ones.
Peace,
Beth
This week (June 6th-9th) we are hosting middle schoolers from Harpeth Presbyterian Church. This means that even if you are planning to volunteer throughout the summer, please take this week as a break and a thank you for all you do for our clients.
We also are welcomed Ms. Anne Elise Cain as a summer intern this week. She will be at preschool Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday all summer!
Thank you all for your dedication this school year. We are glad to have summer, but we will miss those of you who are taking a break until the fall. You are each a true blessing to our program, and more importantly, our precious little ones.
Peace,
Beth
6.01.2011
Summer Opportunities
Today is the last day of school for Metro Nashville Public Schools!
We have planned multiple opportunities for refugee youth this summer. Thanks to you, it will truly be a summer worth remembering.
We do have several camp scholarship funding opportunities available.
For $100, you can send a refugee child to algebra camp! And the student really wants to go!
Thanks to generous partial scholarships, we are sending 8 kids to camp for a week for only $25 per child! A gift of $200 will send 8 children to camp.
We have 6 others we are hoping to send to YMCA Day Camp for $50 per child.
Please send a gift to
Nations Ministry Center
P. O. Box 128154
Nashville, TN 37212
Or on-line giving to make this summer a summer worth remembering.
5.27.2011
A Trip to the Zoo
Our preschool crew took a trip to the zoo this week. Thanks to many of our friends who helped make this great trip possible!
4.25.2011
Welcome, Nations Academy Coordinator!
Today we welcomed Charles Flowers to the newly-created position of Nations Academy Coordinator! Charles will be growing our refugee youth education initiatives and will lead our after-school program.
Welcome, Charles!
Welcome, Charles!
4.21.2011
Congratulations, Heather!
Heather Cain was awarded the Mary Catherine Strobel Innovator in Action Award for her work with the Nations Ministry Center preschool! As Heather said in her acceptance remarks, this award is for our many dedicated volunteers who have given so much to prepare refugee children for the first day of school!
4.15.2011
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