Crisis Ministry at St. Paul's Outreach Center

The mission of the Crisis Ministry at St. Paul’s Outreach Center is to help prevent hunger and homelessness by providing food, financial assistance and advocacy for low-income persons. Our assistance is available to both St. Paul’s parishioners and low-income persons who find themselves in a crisis situation. To prevent duplication of effort and to utilize existing community resources, it important that persons needing crisis assistance contact one of the following primary crisis assistance programs/churches PRIOR to seeking assistance from St. Paul’s or one of the other secondary crisis assistance programs:

Crisis Control Ministry                                                                                          
724 -7453
200 East 10th Street

Salvation Army                                                                                                      
722 - 8721
1255 N Trade Street

Sunnyside Ministry of the Moravian Church                                                    
724 - 7558
319 Haled Street
(Sunnyside provides assistance to individuals living in zip codes 27107, and 27127 and Northern Davidson County)

Homeless Individuals should contact:

Bethesda Center
722-9951                                   
930 North Patterson                                          
Provides shelter for 20 women plus 80 men and provides an evening meal and other supportive services.

Samaritan Soup Kitchen
748-1962
1243 North Patterson                                        
Meals served (11-1 M-F and 12-2 Sunday). Also provides event meal and shelter to 89 men.

Salvation Army Shelter
 722-8721
 1235 North Trade Street                                   
Salvation Army provides shelter for families, women with children and single women. SA provides both an evening meal for its guests and a community breakfast for anyone.

The following churches have secondary assistance programs and should be contacted only after contacting one of the primary agencies/churches listed above:

Augsburg Lutheran Church                                                                              
722 - 2731
845 West Fifth Street (Appointments on Fridays only)
Call on Wednesday at 8:30am to make an appointment to be seen on the following Friday.
10 appointments will be scheduled.

Centenary United Methodist Church                                                             
397-1364
646 West Fifth Street (Appointments on Tuesdays only)
Call between Wednesday & Monday to make an appointment to be seen the following Tuesday.
14 appointments will be scheduled.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church                                                                             
723 - 4391
(Outreach Center) 608 Summit Street
Assistance provided by appointment only! Client calling for assistance should be transferred to Ext. 513. On that line they will be told that we only return calls for assistance on Tuesday mornings from 9 - 11 am. Clients must be available to receive a return call on Tuesday morning so that we might determine whether there are other community resources that are more appropriate for their situation and so that we might schedule them to see a Crisis Volunteer on Wednesday between 9-11 am, if we are the more appropriate point of assistance.  Social workers or community agency staff should be directed to ext. 511 and Mike Bradshaw will return those calls ASAP. All parishioners calling for Mike Bradshaw should be directed to ext. 511.