Thanks for your interest in our Local Outreach! Check out al l the different ways you can serve locally and then fill out the form to let us know which team(s) best fit you!
Pop-Up Outreach
- This team is similar to the community pop-up serve team but are making the commitment to travel up to 10 hours for the outreach.
-What does the team do? Local outreach team who are ready when the time comes to serve, they are aware this may require some drive time. This team is there when storm damage devastates an area, or some other disaster occurs, within a ten hour drive from Northridge. Once the need arises and we can determine how we can assist, we plan the trip and depart to assist. Usually within 76 hours of any request occurring we have a team ready. Our outreach in this moments are detailed to anything from storm clean-up to simply serving water.
- When does this team meet? Within 76 hours or less of notification coming after a major devastation.
- Are there events that happen frequently? No, we simply hold names of those who able to respond within short notice.
Local Homeless Outreach
-What is local homeless outreach? This team provides tangible outreach to those who are homeless in surrounding counties. Providing cold weather gear in the winter season and simple bagged lunches with water in warmer weather. As well as the tangible items, this team uses the delivery of items as opportunity to share the gospel or simply praying those who receive items.
-What does the team do? They host collection drives, prepare sack lunches and visit homeless camps or join other larger homeless outreach centers. Our team will assist with "Our father's house" in Springfield, collects & organize collections , delivers collected items to various organizations as well as the Nashville Rescue Mission. Our team will schedule time to join other churches and host an "under the bridge" ministry moment.
-Are there events that happen frequently? October and November the team will launch a drive for Cold weather gear.
........'I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’
Youth Villages Outreach Teams
- What is Youth Villages Outreach? Youth Villages of Nashville, is who Northridge has partnered with. Youth Villages is a non-profit organization that provides help for children and young people across the United States who face a wide range of emotional, mental and behavioral problems. Our partnership is focused on three group homes of children who the state has placed into the homes. Homes are government ran facilities, which have state counsels who work in the homes twenty-four hours a day, all year long. Being that there are three homes we've broken this down into three teams.
- What do these teams do? These teams bring joy and cheer into these homes. They provide opportunities that these children may have never experienced. Teams create moments for these children to feel the love of Jesus. Major holidays, teams will visit the homes and provide snacks, play games and sometimes cook a meal with the children. Teams will decorate for the holiday and try to make a tough situation feel a little more like home.
Three Teams:
- Wallace Team: home for up to 12 girls, ages 13 through 17.
- Brinkley Team: home for boys ages 13-15 years of age.
- Tallwood Team: home for boys ages 16-17
- Are there restrictions? Yes, these homes are state run facilities and require all interactions with the children to be scheduled. Northridge has established a reputation with Youth Villages that scheduling and assisting the homes gives us some access that not everyone would typically have. We require all those on who participate on a team to have a TBI background check.
- Are there events that happen frequently? Annually. We will be there for major holidays, taking the kids back to school shopping for clothes, giving the kids moments they don't get normally. Examples would be, backyard fall bonfires, Christmas shopping, and decorating the house for Christmas.