Ways to Connect with Public Housing

How To Connect
If your congregation is interested in outreach to one of the housing developments, contact KCDC: Sharon Bishop, 594-8774, or Mary Drexler, 594-8820. Your request will presented to the president of the resident association where you wish to serve. In turn, the resident association will then contact your church for further information and contact at their discretion.

Volunteer at the local Boys & Girls Clubs nearest your home. Serve this agency as it serves public housing developments. Coach a sports team, provided leadership in a club or help with tutoring programs. Hug and love kids!

• Administrative Office 544-3825
• Caswell (Powell) 524-1214
• Vestal 573-4837
• Christenberry Heights 689-5203
• Walter P. Taylor Homes 594-8784
• Montgomery Village 579-5377
• Laura Cansler 673-8645
• Western Heights 637-6217
• Moses Teen Center 637-5523
• Halls/Powell 219-7232

Churches can pray for and serve the elderly and the disabled in the following subsidized apartments. Please contact the complex manager for permission and specific direction.

“God-Size” Idea

What if each development had at least one congregation praying for it? What do you think could happen?

Broadway Towers 524-4092

Cagle Terrace 594-8646

Candleridge Apartments 938-3394

Cedar Springs Apartments 693-3644

Dogwood Terrace 690-0313

Golden Age Retirement Village 637-3470

Isabella Towers 594-8692

Knox County Housing Authority 637-7942

Love Towers 594-8635

Morningside Gardens Apartments 523-4133

Summit Towers 525-5069

Sunnybrook Apartments 922-9124

Townview Towers 525-1262

Westview Towers 693-6211

For Advice
To talk with other pastors whose congregations are active in public housing call: Pastor Jarvis Ross (673- 0733), Community Evangelistic Church, Pastor Tony Earl (524-7548), Oakwood Baptist Church, Pastor Johnie Skinner (522-2715), Mount Zion Baptist Church or Pastor Todd Stewart, (690-8012), West Knoxville Baptist Church.

To talk with urban youth ministries active in public housing, see the YOUTH chapter of this guidebook. Many of these ministries work with youth who live in public housing.