Mission & Outreach Committee

Our purpose is to participate in fulfilling the mission of St. B’s by cultivating financial and supportive relationships with individuals and organizations – local, national, and global – who demonstrate commitment to transformative change through the Gospel by extending hope, healing, love, and provision in the name of Jesus. Our community engagement team is also pursuing volunteer opportunities that you can find here.


Chair: Tom Mahan

Committee Members: Emily Andrews (Vice-Chair), Bethany Bordeaux, Don Cason, Lynn Ferguson, Kate Ferrell, Mike Gardner, Shirley Garth, Cindy Judge, Joshua Rio-Ross (Treasurer), Lisa Smithen, Aidan Sullivan

Vestry Liaison: David Logan

Love In Action email editor: The Rev. Serena Sides


Email us at missions@stbs.net

Global Mission Partners


  • Mark and susan with barnabas international

    St. B’s members Mark and Susan have served as missionaries of St. B’s in Europe since 2008. Through Barnabas International, they provide member care to global workers serving in challenging and underserved contexts. Mark and Susan's base is in southern Spain, which is now the most popular entry point into Europe for African migrants. Their pastoral-care ministry is a natural extension of the ethos of restoration and healing that has long characterized St. B’s.


  • New life restoration ministries

    NLRM is a faith-based organization in Kibera, Kenya, one of the largest impoverished urban settlements in Africa, lacking running water, sewage pipes, electrical lines, street signs, and public schools. In 2000 NLRM’s founders, Paul and Grace Mbithi, left their comfortable jobs at Nairobi International Airport to start a church and a home for orphaned and vulnerable children. M&O supports the home for children, which has grown to include 113 children. Those children and over 100 others from the community, many from Muslim families, attend the Christian primary school started by NLRM.  

Local and Regional Mission Partners

  • The Branch of nashville

    The Branch, located in Antioch neighborhood of Nashville, helps culturally diverse, under-resourced families work toward self-sufficiency through food support, English classes and job assistance. Volunteers at its food pantry sort high-quality meat, fruits, vegetables and other staple items to distribute to about 1,200 families each month, much of it overstock received from suppliers such as Amazon Fresh and Publix. St. B's provides financial support to the Branch and regularly sends volunteers to help in the food panty. Several parishioners teach ESL, as well. 

  • Charis ministries

    Charis provides emergency food support in the Nashville area. While Davidson County has almost 30 food banks, each has its own schedule of limited hours, and requires pickup at its location. These constraints are difficult for people without transportation, flexible schedules, or good health. Charis has addressed this need by mobilizing volunteers to take essential food supplies to those who call for help. In 2020 it delivered 532 boxes of food to serve over 1,000 people, half of them under age 18 or over 64. St. B's provides financial support to Charis.

  • Don paul gross with intervarsity

    St. B's parishioner Don Paul Gross serves with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as the Regional Director of Graduate Student and Faculty Ministries in the western states. This ministry seeks to develop on-campus communities of Christian graduate students and faculty that bear witness to the great love of God. These communities seek to encourage a growing love for God, for God's Kingdom, and for all people. 

  • rooftop nashvile

    Rooftop Nashville  partners with over 50 congregations as well as foundations and businesses to interrupt the eviction cycle for Davidson County residents who have sustainable living situations but whose housing stability has been threatened by an unexpected financial hardship. In 2020-2021 Rooftop stabilized over 1,000 households impacted by natural disasters, COVID-19 and other crises. St. B's was one of the founders of Rooftop after the housing crisis of 2005 and supports it financially.

  • room in the inn

    RITI has provided essential services to unhoused Nashvillians since 1985. RITI partners with almost 190 congregations during winter months to provide emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness. St. B’s was one of the first twelve congregations in 1986 to welcome RITI guests overnight and hasn’t missed an opportunity to host men and women on Saturday nights. Many of our parishioners volunteer to welcome our guests on Saturday evenings in the winter. 

  • Showerup nashville

    ShowerUp’s mission is to build relationships, restore hope and dignity, and reflect the love of God by providing shower services and personal-care items to those who need them (primarily unhoused people, some of whom have jobs and some don’t). Its mobile-shower unit serves six days a week in the Nashville area alongside other nonprofits to maximize its outreach. St. B's provides financial assistance and regularly sends volunteers to ShowerUp to help with the mobile shower units. 

  • siloam health

    Siloam is a faith-based medical clinic that has provided healthcare for uninsured, underserved and culturally marginalized people in Middle Tennessee for 30 years. More than 90% of Siloam’s patients were born outside the U.S., represent 86 homelands and speak 59 languages. Siloam is also on the front lines of screening and welcoming refugees to Nashville. St. B's provides financial assistance and our volunteers assist with on-site intake screening and work with refugees through Siloam's Nashville Neighbors program.

  • st. luke's community house

    Founded in 1913 by The Episcopal Church in Middle Tennessee, St. Luke’s provides an array of services focusing on early child development, senior assistance, and emergency food support. St. B’s financial support and in-kind gifts provide mobile meals, emergency assistance, holiday programs and other services. Volunteers operate a popular thrift store that generates significant income for St. Luke’s Preschool—an affordable, high-quality program for low-income, working families. 


  • thistle farms residential program

    TF Residential Program is offered to women survivors of trafficking, prostitution and addiction. Up to 28 residents live together in a therapeutic setting which offers free housing, healthcare, counseling, employment training and transformation through mutual trust-building and accountability. After two years in the program the women become candidates for graduation, a much-anticipated time of celebration that takes place each spring. St. B’s provides thoughtfully curated housewarming baskets and generous gift cards to help graduates start their new lives. 

  • The Village at glencliff

    The Village’s twelve micro-homes give people experiencing chronic homelessness a dignified, loving and safe place to rest after hospitalization. It opened in 2021. The Village’s goal is to provide time for healing as well as intentional community-building, giving residents a toolkit that supports them as they heal. St. B's provides financial support to the Village at Glencliff, which seeks volunteers to help with meal preparation and gardening. 

  • young life nashville

    Young Life Nashville builds relationships with high-school students in eight Metro Nashville Public Schools across the city and helps them grow in their Christian faith. Many of the students are from predominantly low-income, under-resourced communities. St. B's provides financial support to Young Life Nashville.