Redeemer on Mission
Strategic Missions Opportunities
Below are our specific local service opportunities that Redeemer Church has an ongoing relationship with. For more information about our service opportunities or to volunteer, please contact our Missions Team.
YoungLives & Young Life
YoungLives, a YoungLife ministry, seeks to care for teen moms in our community and ensure they have an opportunity to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. YoungLife’s mission is to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith. YoungLife sends adults as local missionaries to high school and middle school students in Sumner County to build friendships and earn the right to be heard. YoungLife believes every kid deserves a chance to hear the gospel from someone they can trust who will love them regardless of their response.
Matt and Bethany - Central Asia
Matt and Bethany and their family live and work in a city of two million Muslims. Their people love Americans and are very warm toward relationships with them. They are currently working at a training center teaching English as a Second Language. These classroom relationships give them ample opportunity to share the love of Christ with people. By God’s grace, they have seen a small church plant start and take root over the last few years. Their weeks regularly include shepherding and discipling local believers in the church plant, building relationships over cups of hot tea in the bazaar, and sharing the Gospel with their friends and neighbors.
Ben and Bekah - East Asia
Ben and Bekah serve with Cru International. They are part of a team that focuses on reaching university students in east Asia.
Sarah McCreary - SIM
Sarah McCreary serves with SIM to help prepare and work alongside missionaries as they go from their application process, through their training, to field placement and cultural assimilation as SIM seeks bring the Gospel to areas where Jesus is not know.
Will and Ann - Radius Asia
Will and Ann serve on staff with Radius International, an organization that trains workers who are preparing to serve unreached people groups. Students undergo a rigorous cross-cultural training designed to help them prepare to go to hard places—and stay there long term. Will and Ann teach language learning and linguistics. They have two boys, ages 10 and 14.
Cumberland Crisis Pregnancy Center
Since 1987, the Cumberland Crisis Pregnancy Center (CCPC) has been providing resources and support for young women and families facing the challenges of an unplanned pregnancy. All services are free and available to everyone regardless of race, religion, age, or gender. No one in need would ever be turned away. Services include pregnancy tests, pregnancy counseling, assistance referrals, educational classes, infant supplies, post-abortion support, and personal development.
International Mission Board
Redeemer supports church planting and evangelistic work across the world through the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention. The IMB partners with churches to empower limitless missionary teams who are evangelizing, discipling, planting, and multiplying healthy churches, and training leaders among unreached peoples and places for the glory of God. The IMB supports over 3600 missionary personnel to engage over 840 people groups around the world with the gospel.
NETS
NETS seeks to establish gospel-driven churches across New England and beyond through training, sending, and supporting qualified men as church planters and revitalizers. They established in New England as it is the most lost region of the United States. Their desire is that every NETS church succeed and reproduce, bearing gospel fruit for generations to come. They currently have church plants in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
North American Mission Board
Redeemer supports church planting and evangelistic work through the North American Mission Board (NAMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention. NAMB supports church planters, missionaries, and chaplains across North America, and especially in the most lost cities, while also equipping churches to be on mission in their own communities and across the continent. Through compassion ministry, church planting, chaplaincy and disaster relief, they help congregations go to the lost and hurting.
Belarus Church Planting Mission
The Belarus Church Planting Mission is a network of churches and pastors that have joined together for the purpose of cultivating healthy congregations and training pastors toward the goal of planting over 70 mission-minded, self-supporting churches by the year 2030.
Servant Group International
Servant Group International (SGI) is a non-profit Christian organization with the mission to encourage and equip the body of Christ to love and serve our Middle Eastern neighbors. In addition to international work, they offer support for refugees and migrants into the Nashville area. This includes women’s ESL classes, men’s 1-on-1 ESL classes, sewing training classes, and other opportunities to serve and build relationships.
Hope Community Church
Hope Community Church is a located in the West Nashville community of the Nations. They gather as a fellowship to be God’s people on God’s missions to tell the world about God’s glory. The pastor, Marshall Gallagher, was a church planting resident at Redeemer and we continue to partner with and support Marshall and Hope Community Church.
Natalie Betterton - Thailand
Natalie Betterton serves with MESA Global in Bangkok, Thailand. She is currently focusing on learning language and culture so that she can better serve and minister to the women she encounters daily. Natalie is part of a team whose ministry focus is bringing hope to women who are vulnerable to exploitation, abuse, and trafficking.
Nick and Bethany Calhoun - Get Strong
Nick and Bethany Calhoon serve as full-time missionaries with Get Strong Ministries (GSM), which exists to make disciples in CrossFit gyms around the world. Nick is the Director of Missions and Leadership Development in Latin America. He works primarily in Nicaragua, while also supporting efforts across the region to develop local leaders for mission work in their own communities. Their primary focus is on Christian gym owners and coaches. They disciple and equip them to reach the lost, strengthen believers, and mobilize others - ultimately leading to Gospel multiplication.
Nathan and Joanna Michaels - Wycliffe
The Michaels have worked in Bible translation since 2007 with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Nathan’s work helps to eradicate Bible poverty by helping minority language groups translate the Word of God into their heart language. Joanna is currently working on gaining her counseling license in order to provide care to international missionaries and their families.
Rachel Witt - Madagascar
Rachel Witt is currently serving in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Initially, she is focusing on learning the Malagasy language so she can share the gospel and disciple others. Rachel’s plans are to use her healthcare background to teach at a nursing school and partner with other healthcare organizations in the area.