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To Make A Difference
Offer child care one night a month to a mother of a handicapped child.
Provide housecleaning for an elderly woman and join her for lunch.
Offer assistance in minor home repairs.
Befriend a single, pregnant young woman.
Provide affordable, quality child care or an after-school program in a
church facility.
Find a place where you can connect as a mentor.
Provide transportation to weekly church services.
Offer unconditional acceptance from your church family.
Assist grandparents that are raising grandchildren.
Before you pay an individuals electric bill, contact Jeanie Fox at the
Knoxville Utility Board (594-7401) for advice.
Church Groups: Serve Together
The following organizations would welcome trips, parties or classes for
the women and children they serve:
PleasanTree Apartments for women with a mental illness, 524-1312
Joy Baker Center (domestic violence shelter)
525-9401
Serenity Shelter (domestic violence shelter)
673-6550
New Life Inn (homeless shelter)
673-6650
Family Crisis Center (domestic violence shelter)
673-3066
A God-Sized Idea!
There is no ministry in Knoxville specifically to prostitutes. Please pray
and see whether this is a ministry that God has for you. Our city needs a
core group of committed Christian women to rise up and take on this
enormous challenge. Contact the Compassion Coalition office to register
your interest. We can network interested people.
Networks Needed
We need a car-repair network in our community for women in crisis. Call
John Winters, Fellowship Church, at 470-9800, or Allen Haynes at Bridgewater Church (690-8012) to get involved.
We also need a network of doctors and other medical professionals to
donate patient slots. Finally there is a great need for a network of godly
lawyers to help solve the myriad of complex issues facing women in crisis
in our city. Call the Compassion Coalition if you are a related
professional. We will try to network you together and to the proper
community leaders.
Connect with Local Organizations
Many organizations offer services for women in a variety of different
areas. We have listed only a few of them below. To offer you support with
time, talents and resources, contact one of them:
Hope for Healing (Homepage)
Gayle Crabtree, 933-8769
• Resources for victims of sexual assault/abuse
Hope Resource Center, 525-4673
Befriend a woman who has given her baby for adoption.
Give a baby shower for a woman who keeps her baby.
Medical practitioners, nurses. Serve as a pregnancy counselor.
Make maternity clothes for mothers.
An Open Door, Brenda Portwood, 560-0085
Pregnancy Resource Center.
Ongoing need for volunteers, people for showers etc.
Florence Crittenton Agency, 602-2021
Residential treatment services for young women with problem pregnancies
and others in crisis with family, school and community.
Mentors for young women.
Support for recreational activities.
Interfaith Health Clinic, 546-7330
Administrative help.
Need volunteer hours from physicians, nurses and dentists.
Partners (a program of Child & Family),
Gina Whitmore, 524-7483
Provide transportation for teenage moms.
Donate baby supplies.
PleasanTree Apartments for the women with mental illness 524-1312
Maintenance work on apartments.
Mentor children, organize events.
Tenn Corp Community Services Inc, Jacqueline Collins, 673-4700.
Girl Power Program needs mentors for girls ages 6-15.
Freedom Institute (summer program for grades 1-6) needs volunteers for
help with different classes.
Angelic Ministries, Betsy Frazier, 523-8884
Sort and size clothing. Greeters.
Carpet layers, painters, plumbers.
Succeed (a program of the Community Action Committee), 546-3500
Offers long-term care to women in crisis. Many connecting opportunities
available.
Knoxville Christian Womens Job Corps, Eva McHaffa, 705-9970
Help struggling, low-income women gain the training and confidence they
need to find better jobs.
Mentors, instructors, prayer partners, transportation, child care.
Donate computers, fax machines, bus passes
Families First GED: Lynn Moore, 544-5200
Tutors/mentors/job shadowing opportunities.
Donations for incentive gifts and field trips.
Shannondale Friends Program, Rev. Dixie Lea Petrey, Chaplain, 690-3411
Adopt an elderly resident and become a Shannondale friend.
Make weekly contact through visitation or sending cards.
Organizations that Help with Violence
For other ideas about how to serve physically and sexually abused women,
see the Domestic Violence section.
Joy Baker Center (Salvation Army), 525-9401
Day care for working homeless moms.
Job training how to dress, interview, what to expect.
Give birthday parties/serve meals.
Serenity Shelter and New Life Inn (KARM), 673-6540
Donations of toiletries, clothing, bedding and baby items.
Womens items: church/interview clothing, journals, games, cards, bubble
bath, lotions.
Gift certificates/coupons, zoo and aquarium passes.
Family Crisis Center, 673-3066
Donations of toiletries.
Gift certificates/coupons, zoo and aquarium passes.
Provide home cooked meals and simple companionship. |
