Brookmeade is excited to welcome guest preacher Dr. Tammy Lewis Wilborn this Sunday, September 1st!

New Orleans native, Dr. Tammy Lewis Wilborn (she/her) is a retired board-certified licensed
professional counselor-supervisor with 20+ years of professional experience. Among her other
accomplishments, Dr. Wilborn owned and managed a solo clinical mental health private practice,
held faculty appointments at the University of New Orleans and Xavier University of Louisiana,
founded the annual Black Women’s Wellness Conference of New Orleans, and authored Playing
A New Game: A Black Woman’s Guide to Being Well and Thriving in the Workplace. As a mental
health and wellness expert and professional keynote speaker, Dr. Wilborn has informed,
inspired, and ignited audiences of all types to be well, whole, and free as God intended.

Dr. Wilborn holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, a Master of Science in Counseling, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
from Loyola University of New Orleans. She is also a 2021 graduate of Loyola University of New
Orleans’ Women’s Leadership Academy.

In 2020, Dr. Wilborn answered her call to ministry and began graduate studies in the fall of 2022
at Vanderbilt Divinity School (VDS). In December 2024, she will graduate from VDS with a Master
of Divinity degree and a concentration in Pastoral and Prophetic Congregational Leadership. She
is a Member-In-Discernment in the Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ and an
active member of Howard Congregational United Church of Christ, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dr. Wilborn is married and is the mother of two adult sons and a teenage son who thinks he’s an
adult.

First Sundays of the month we collect our COW (“Contribute Our Wealth”) Offering. Monetary donations are split between Second Harvest of Middle TN and Heifer International. You can also bring canned goods on Sunday morning to donate to Second Harvest. Please designate your check for COW Offering or if you give online you can choose COW offering on the drop-down menu on Tithe.ly. Thank you for supporting these important organizations and helping Brookmeade fight hunger!

Learn & Grow is taking the summer off. Our class will resume on Sunday, September 8, 2024 at 9:15 am on Sundays. We will study the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. We encourage you to add it to your summer reading list and begin reading it before the class starts!

Click HERE to learn more about the upcoming UCC Southeast Conference Annual Meeting on Thursday 8/15 – Saturday 8/17 in Crossville, TN, including workshop details, speaker bios, lodging details and registration information (in person and online options available). The Greater Nashville UCC Churches Choir has been asked to perform on Saturday morning. If you’d like to join Brookmeaders, along with our sister churches Howard and HTCC, in this performance (singers and instrumentalists are all welcome) please contact the church office. We are also seeking members to act as delegates at this meeting for anyone who is interested in attending!

Our Restorative Yoga Class is returning to our usual meeting time on Monday afternoons @ 4:30 pm on August 5th! Please contact the church office for more details. 

First Sundays of the month we collect our COW (“Contribute Our Wealth”) Offering. Monetary donations are split between Second Harvest of Middle TN and Heifer International. You can also bring canned goods on Sunday morning to donate to Second Harvest. Please designate your check for COW Offering or if you give online you can choose COW offering on the drop-down menu on Tithe.ly. Thank you for supporting these important organizations and helping Brookmeade fight hunger!

Our next trip to the Project CURE Warehouse (2309 Clifton Ave, 37209) is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 3rd from 9:30 am – 12 pm. We will be sorting medical supplies. Newcomers are very welcome! For planning reasons we need a head count for our group prior to volunteering. Please RSVP to the church office ASAP if you plan to attend. Thanks and see you there!

Brookmeade is excited to welcome Dahron Johnson as our guest preacher this Sunday, June 30th! Dahron Johnson, a clinically-trained chaplain who is licensed in the United Church of Christ, works with a number of local and state groups, including the community advisory boards for the Kennedy Center; the Program for LGBTQ+ Health at VUMC; and the Board of the community leadership development group, Neighbor 2 Neighbor. Her activism work, though, has its home with the Tennessee Equality Project, a group dedicated to legislative advocacy for LGBTQ+  Tennesseans.  Dahron was recently elected by the Metro Council of Nashville & Davidson County to serve on its Human Relations Commission, and has testified before TN General Assembly Senate and House committees on multiple occasions. In January 2024, serving as Chaplain of the Day, Chaplain Johnson became the first openly trans person to speak from the floor of the Tennessee House—also believed to be the first time nationally that an out trans person has offered prayer in any state legislature.

There will be no yoga class during the month of July, but we will return to our usual meeting time on Monday afternoons in August! Please contact the church office for more information. 

Come and celebrate with us as we honor 71 years of community, social justice, and sharing God’s love for all! Our fellowship team is providing dinner at 6:30 pm and we will have a special musical performance from local musician Dave Coleman following dinner in our sanctuary!

From Dave’s website: “Dave Coleman is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer/engineer based in East Nashville, Tennessee. He grew up on the Cumberland Plateau in Jamestown, Tennessee.  The son of a small town attorney and a National Park ranger, He was isolated in a small town childhood that provided the time to pursue guitar and recording. His young talent found him with a publishing deal at age 20 at legendery Acuff-Rose Music Publishing… After two years of writing for a living, he struck out on his own with his band… Coleman founded his band The Coal Men in 1999. They have forged there own path releasing five Roots Rock/Americana albums and touring across the U.S. and overseas in Europe… A large portion of Coleman’s time now is devoted to producing and recording albums for notable independent artists like Amelia White, Rod Picot, Stephen Simmons, Bob Delevante, Ned Hill, and Reagan Boggs at his Howard’s Apartment Studio.”

“Coleman, is a distinct yet versatile (that’s a tough trick) guitar force. In his 20s, some folks talked of him as a budding Kenny Vaughan or Buddy Miller, and he’s now squarely in that league. He makes a three-piece sound like a five-piece, never relying on the kind of silly, flurried-high-note tricks that draw applause without providing substance. His tone is unassailable, and he is essentially producing as he plays, subtly answering vocal lines, bass riffs, and even drum fills with pretty-as-you-please six string responses.” – Peter Cooper

Website:  www.thecoalmen.com  &  www.davecoleman.biz

Facebook:  www.facebook.com/theCoalMen/

Instagram: @thedavecoleman