Membership Benefits and Application 

This non-profit organization is not a church yet we spread the word.  We are not a kitchen yet we feed the poor, and we are not clothiers yet we shelter and clothe the poor.  We do this for one reason and one reason only; because we love the Lord our God above all.  We take the concept of perfecting the saints to heart and we produce, mend, end to, nourish, and faster hurting, rejected, scared and unhappy sheep. If you find that your life or church no longer has a place for you allow us to offer you one.

The need for the street outreach is apparent. The problem with the previous attempts is that they have failed to address the fundamental issue; not where the people are, but why they are there.  Empirical data suggests that drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, and crime are a manifestation of deeper problems. The addressing of these problems is fundamental to assisting theses lost sheep. Yet, another issue is the addressing of the concept of lost sheep. We must understand that not all people who are living destitute are lost. As the prodigal in the son, some have chosen to live with the swine. We were called to help the lost: the others our beyond our reach.

      There are three fundamental areas common to all of the lost sheep: lack of love, lack of attention, and lack of discipline. The other problem has always been that after churches have done their thing they walk away and leave the lost sheep in the wilderness. Jesus never left anybody where they were after He saved them, we should not either. So that as the scripture reads that their new state become worse than the first. Research has shown the rehabs on average take at least eight tries before they effect a change on people. We need to offer three things in the street outreach.

1)      The Love of God.

2)      A new outlook on life-that includes education, change in environment, and a loving ear to cry into.

3)      A place (church and transportation to and from) for the lost to go to escape the wiles of the world, a place of relative safety in the storm.

Anything less than the afore mentioned approaches would be wasting time. Appealing to the creature comforts is not what they need, that just leaves comfortable creature in a pigpen.  What they need is food, clothes, and love-but most of all they need Jesus. We are the ones instructed to show them Him.

          This Faith-based Corporation is formed for educational and charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law). Its specific purposes are:

1. To find creative ways to feed and clothe the less fortunate.

2. To find creative ways to educate the less fortunate.

3. To help re-integrate former inmates into their family, society and the workplace.

4. To find creative ways to house and employ the less fortunate.

5. To help those damaged and destroyed by drugs.

6. To help victims of incest, rape and domestic abuse.

7. (h.) To support, manage, produce, and distribute noncommercial, community based media programs;

8.  To develop and promote the concept of community (public, educational, governmental, and institutional) access to existing and future communications media.

9. To establish, maintain and operate one (1) or more media access center(s): (1.) To educate and train individuals and nonprofit organizations and institutions in the use of various media tools and techniques.

10. To provide individuals and nonprofit organizations and institutions with access to various media tools and assistance in their use.

11.  To promote programs and support the use of various media as vehicles of artistic expression.

12.  To establish, maintain and operate a system or systems for the distribution of various non-commercial media programs and materials, in the public interest.

13.  To facilitate the use of access channels as a public forum which promotes a free exchange of ideas and information;

14.  To promote and develop activities and programs for the optimal utilization of the

15.  To serve access viewers and users with programs reflecting the activities, concerns, and interests of the residents of the Nashville area in a manner that promotes a free exchange of ideas and information;

16. To create and maintain an environment which enables a diversity of peoples and viewpoints and ensures that no individual is discriminated against with regard to membership, services, access to information or any activity because of race, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, political affiliation, or economic status.

17. To make recommendations to users and to cable communication franchisees in regard to access services and institutional network services;

18.  To apply for and to receive contributions, grants, donations, and loans of all types from individuals, organizations, profit and nonprofit, public and private corporations, government agencies and others to support these purposes;

19.  To determine and conduct or support any and all other lawful things in furtherance of the foregoing charitable and educational purposes, either, manifest of latent.

20.  Maximize the quality of service to theological field education;

21.  Provide for optimal growth and development of field education personnel;

22.  Achieve maximum input from field education personnel to development of strategies for theological education;

23.  Develop and maintain an atmosphere for maximum input of content fields into experience-centered learning;

24.  Provide for optimal participation of education personnel in education programs.

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