We are currently in our Fall fundraising program, which could not be more important. SO FAR THIS YEAR, THE DEMAND FOR SERVICES FROM OUR POOR AND HOMELESS GUESTS HAS GROWN BY 10% OVER LAST YEAR. We have served 14% more lunches and nearly 2% more breakfasts. Our guests have needed nearly 10% more showers and about 4% more loads of laundry. And...the requests for the hygiene items we offer has expanded nearly 14%. This means that the expenses associated with these services has grown accordingly.
 If you have received a donation request from us and have not as yet responded, we hope that you will do so very soon. This will be the only way we will be able to carry on our ministry to the poor and homeless in Nashville.

On Tuesday, November 20, the Board of Directors prepared and served their annual Thanksgiving meal to guests and neighbors of Community Care Fellowship. In addition to some of our regulars, the meal was "open to the public" so included families from Cayce Homes and surrounding areas. (We think that there seemed to be more families than in the past.)
As the photo on the left shows, it was a full traditional Thanksgiving dinner, using food donated by Board members. These folks cherish this opportunity to be in fellowship with those for whom they work so hard during the year and has become a highlight of the year for them. (The gallery of photos...click the tab above...shows them hard at work in the kitchen.)
A fun note: of of those there photographed her full plate of food and posted the picture on her Facebook page; it obviously was a highlight for her as well as for our Board of Directors members.
191 PERSONS WERE SERVED THIS YEAR.

Another example of the programs your CCF involves itself with is "Project Transformation", a new initiative this year by CCF and Nancy Webb Kelly UMC, Tulip Street UMC, and West Nashville UMC.

• Over half the children registered came every day for 8 weeks
• 100 % of the children maintained their reading levels, with most making some improvement
• 4006 books were read
• 100% of the parents responding were satisfied with the program
• 86% were invited to church
  

We hope to have this program again in 2013 and, in fact, are considering adding a 6-9th grade component to what we did this year. Specific totals for the program conducted at CCF and Nancy Webb Kelly will be reported later..

To get a visual picture of this program, be sure and click on the "GALLERY" button at the top of this page.

This new ministry was a cooperative effort between CCF, Dalewood UMC and Trinity UMC. Started this past June, it is directed at a neighborhood near Trinity that is underserved by most Nashville agencies.. Volunteers assemble lunches and deliver them door to door. 1300 LUNCHES WERE PREPARED AND DELIVERED DURING THE INITIAL 7-WEEK PERIOD THIS PAST JUNE AND JULY.

Now, thanks to a generous communion offering from Brentwood UMC, the program was continued through November.


TAKE A LOOK AT A GALLERY OF PICTURES BY CLICKING ON THE "GALLERY" BUTTON ABOVE.