Firewood for the Homeless Mission
This coming Friday, April 16th, the youth ministries of the church is looking for your excess Firewood, to collect and donate to the Homeless folks at “Tent City.”
There are a few hundred homeless people living in make shift tents and homes underneath the bridges and in the woods around downtown Nashville in what the city considers “emergency temporary housing.” The most established and highest populated of these areas is called “tent city.” In working with some of the other churches and agencies that work with these communities one of the expressed needs they’ve asked for is firewood. They do not have electricity or gas set ups to cook food any other way than on an open flame, as well it is a source of heat when it gets cooler at night. Firewood is seen as an ongoing need for these homeless populations.
If you have a pile of firewood or brush wood that is around your property and you would like to put it to use with some people who could really use it. Email me (Gavin) at gavin.richardson(at)hfumc.org with your address & location of firewood donation on your property, plus any special instructions. If you know of construction sites that have scrap, untreated, lumber that can be donated as well. We will be driving around this Friday and collecting as much as possible and delivering it to Tent City later in the afternoon.
Shalom,
-gavin
