Our next trip to Project CURE is scheduled for Saturday, November 5th from 9 am – 12 pm (2300 Clifton Ave, Nashville, TN 37209; 615-837-7575). We will be sorting small medical supplies to be sent to hospitals in developing countries. Everyone is welcome, including new comers. You’ll feel like a pro in no time. Hope to see you all there!
Sun. Nov. 6th: COW Offering
The first Sunday of each month is COW (“Contribute Our Wealth”) Sunday. We ask everyone bring in non-perishable food items to put in the shopping cart. We will bring the groceries to Second Harvest Food Bank. We also take up a monetary collection which is split between Second Harvest Food Bank and Heifer International. Brookmeade doing a small part to alleviate hunger!
Sun. Oct. 30th: Rise&Shine! All Ages Sunday School
Come join us for Rise and Shine! on Sunday mornings from 9:30-10:15 am. Learning and growing activities for all ages. Next week (Oct. 30th): “Music: We Are Marching in the Light of God.”
Since we are now holding Sunday School before the service, kids above kindergarten age are invited to worship with us at the 10:30 am service. Remember to grab a kid’s worship activity bag from the front foyer!
Sunday, Oct. 23rd: Rise & Shine! All Ages Sunday School
Come join us for Rise and Shine! on Sunday mornings from 9:30-10:15 am. Learning and growing activities for all ages. This week (Oct. 23rd): “Being Humble”.
Join us as for the activity of building block towers as we focus on ways that we can build each other up.
Since we are now holding Sunday School before the service, kids above kindergarten age are invited to worship with us at the 10:30 am service. Remember to grab a kid’s worship activity bag from the front foyer!
Friday, Oct. 28th: Halloween Party Extravaganza!
Brookmeade will be holding its Halloween Party on Friday, October 28th at 6:30pm. The Community Life Team will provide pizza, salad, and lemonade (families can bring soda if they wish); just come in your best scary costume! Everyone is invited, including friends & family. If you missed it last year, you won’t want to miss this year! We’ll start to chow down about 6:30pm with pizza. After we dig into the food, we’ll dig into pumpkins on hand for carving! Please sign up on the Community Life bulletin board to let us know how many guests & spooks you are bringing so we’ll have plenty of food & drinks & pumpkins for all to enjoy! Hope to see you all there!
Sun. Oct. 16th: Rise & Shine! All Ages Sunday School
Come join us for Rise and Shine! on Sunday mornings from 9:30-10:15 am. Learning and growing activities for all ages. This week (Oct. 16th): “Keep on talking to God”.
A persistent woman kept on asking the judge for what she wanted. We will make a prayer tree for our prayers and a praying hands to take home.
Since we are now holding Sunday School before the service, kids above kindergarten age are invited to worship with us at the 10:30 am service. Remember to grab a kid’s worship activity bag from the front foyer!
Sun. Oct. 9th: Rise & Shine! All Ages Sunday School
Rise & Shine!
Learning and growing activities for all ages every Sunday morning from 9:30-10:15 am
This week: “Thank you!”
Ten lepers were healed and only one came back to say “Thank you.” We will make a thank you collage and a thank you tree to take home. Join us!
Fri. Oct. 21st: Claudia Nygaard Benefit Concert
Come join us on Friday, October 21st at 7 pm in the Brookmeade Sanctuary for a special concert by singer/songwriter/storyteller Claudia Nygaard. Concert tickets are $10 and half of the proceeds will benefit Room in the Inn. Come fellowship with us, listen to some great music and help support Room in the Inn, which provides warm beds and community support to those who call the streets of Nashville home.
Childcare will be provided. Dessert and coffee will be served at the show. For more information please contact members of the the Community Life Mission Group or call the church office (615-352-4702).
About Claudia:
“Straddling the fence between folk and country, with a voice like amber honey that is impressive for both its power and intimacy, Claudia Nygaard delivers songs that are heartfelt, humorous, scrappy, and sensual. And so are the stories in between them. She is a captivating storyteller, with a twinkle in her eye that makes everyone in the audience think she is sharing a secret with them alone. Emotionally fearless, she shares her deepest sorrows with a rare vulnerability and tenderness one moment, then a quick wit and an outlandish, irreverent sense of humor the next.
As a salaried staff songwriter on Nashville’s Music Row, Nygaard learned her craft well. Her latest CD “Let The Storm Roll In” rose to #1 on the Cashbox Roots/Country chart and #8 on the Folk DJ chart. Two of the songs, “Georgia Boy” and “J.C.” won the Kerrville, TX Folk Festival “New Folk” songwriting competition for her, but they weren’t the only songs that radio took a liking to. EVERY song on the album received airplay. “Storm” was also highly praised by the press. It received five stars from Americana benchmark magazine “Maverick”, and legendary folk music magazine “Sing Out” claimed the songs “rival the likes of Guy Clark or Ian Tyson”.
Claudia tours tirelessly, and has torn up the highways of all 50 states and performed in 9 foreign countries. She has appeared at over 200 fairs & festivals, including the Kerrville Folk Festival and the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in New York where she was chosen an “Emerging Artist” in 2009. Endorsements from merchandisers attest to her strength as a guitarist, and she accompanies herself in performance with a Tacoma JK50 Jumbo guitar, an Eastman 605CE hollow body archtop, and her tiny but bravado-drenched Lanakai ukulele.
She is currently recording a children’s musical, and working on a new CD for release of original songs.”
Check out Claudia’s website by clicking HERE.
Sun. Oct. 23rd: Brookmeade Welcomes Speakers from Nashville International Center for Empowerment
“How to help Immigrants and Refugees in Nashville”
In recent years, Nashville has become the home of many immigrants and refugees from around the world. The Nashville International Center for Empowerment (NICE) is one of several organizations that works with this growing population. The staff of NICE helps immigrants and refugees learn English, obtain employment, and work toward self-sufficiency. On Sunday, October 23, Ashley Coleman and Erin Bean will visit Brookmeade and share about our immigrant and refugee neighbors, the work of NICE, and the ways that we can welcome and help these folks make Nashville their home. Please stay after the coffee fellowship (from 12:00 to 1:00) to learn more about Nashville’s newest arrivals. Childcare will be provided.
Ashley Coleman, the Adult Education Coordinator, was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her Bachelors of Arts in Latin American Studies and Political Science from Tulane University in 2010. Following graduation, she traveled to Porto Alegre, Brazil where she taught adults English for two years. This experience, coupled with ELL teaching stints in Nicaragua and domestically in Atlanta and New Orleans, collectively solidified a strong, professional interest in working with adult English language learners. Prior to joining the NICE staff full time in January 2014, Ashley served as the ESL Site Coordinator for Glencliff High School and taught the Pre-GED and Computer Literacy course. Ashley recently completed her Masters of TESOL program at the University of Southern California with the objective of further strengthening her instructional practices for NICE clients and their teachers.
Erin Bean was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and secondary teacher certification from Hanover College in 2011. In 2015, she received her Master’s Degree in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education from Indiana University, and certification to teach ESL/EFL. During her graduate studies, Erin served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in The Kyrgyz Republic where she taught English language classes to adults and university students. She also trained volunteers and local educators in current EFL teaching practices. Upon returning to the United States, Erin became an instructor at an intensive academic English language school for adult English language learners in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. As the Adult Education Specialist, Erin serves to support the mission and goals of NICE and the Adult Education Program.
Sun. Oct. 2nd: Rise & Shine: All Ages Sunday School!
Learning Community for all ages…Come join us for Rise and Shine Sunday School on Sunday mornings from 9:30-10:15 am. This is a time for folks of all ages to come together to learn, share, and grow through activities.
Sunday, October 2nd
This week’s hands-on faith lesson is “Bread of Life.” We will make the bread for World Communion Sunday. How is that possible? Come and see!
*Since we are now holding Sunday School before the service, kids above kindergarten age are invited to worship with us at the 10:30 am service. Remember to grab a kid’s worship activity bag from the front foyer!
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