healing, restoration, and long-term personal transformation

• Adult & Teen Challenge: Christ-centered residential recovery for women and men seeking freedom from alcohol and drug addiction, emphasizing holistic discipleship and life transformation.
• Channels of Love: Christ-centered client services, programs, education, and spiritual and emotional support for individuals and families affected by HIV.
• House of Refuge: Faith-based residential restoration for men overcoming life-controlling addictions: life skills, counseling, work, and reintegration support.
• Metanoia Prison Ministry: Proclaims Christ, disciples prisoners, equips churches, and supports mentoring and reintegration for biblically faithful prison ministry.
• Transformation Project: Discipleship, accountability, structure, and character formation for addiction-related offenders, their families, and future generations.
• Transform Ministries: Gospel-rooted mentoring, study, behavioral intervention, prison-prevention work, InZone youth support, prison ministry, and family care.

meeting immediate material needs while helping neighbors move toward stability

• Amani Ya Juu, Chattanooga: Local retail store, coffee shop and event space, supporting the US based operations of a fair-trade social enterprise providing vocational training, sustainable employment, reconciliation, and restoration for marginalized women in Africa.
• Bethlehem Center: Community-based education and resource access serving Chattanooga youth and families; addresses barriers to self-sufficiency through youth and family development.
• Hope for the Inner City: Christ-centered service in East Chattanooga that addresses immediate needs while creating pathways toward long-term economic stability.
• Shepherd’s Arms Rescue Mission: Transitional housing shelter for homeless women with children; provides shelter, meals, clothing, counseling, education, and practical support.
• Vision of Mercy: Compassion-driven outreach to people experiencing homelessness in Chattanooga; provides food, essential supplies, dignity, and relational care.
• Widows Harvest: Home repair, maintenance, prayer, and practical support for widows in Chattanooga, especially older and low-income widows with housing needs.

relational ministry through arts, athletics, and education-based engagement

• Bible in the Schools: Advances Bible education for Hamilton County public school students through privately funded elective Bible courses.
• Chattanooga Christian School Scholarship Fund: Need-based tuition assistance helping make Christ-centered education accessible to more families.
• Chattanooga Sports Ministries: Uses soccer to cultivate belonging, growth, hope, life skills, and Gospel-centered mentoring relationships in under-resourced neighborhoods.
• Child Evangelism Fellowship: Reaches children with the Gospel through Bible-centered programs such as Good News Club, 5-Day Club, and local church connection.
• Church of the First Born: Outreach efforts in mercy ministry of this nondenominational church community include youth programs through after-school tutoring, summer camp, and ministry in area housing projects.
• East Lake Expression Engine: Gospel-centered after-school and summer music education in East Lake, developing creativity, discipline, social skills, spiritual maturity, and confidence.
• On Point: Partners with schools and communities to cultivate youth strengths, build connection, and help students thrive.
• Young Life Chattanooga: Relational outreach to teens and young people through belonging, mentoring, camps, discipleship, and the hope of Jesus.

evangelism, discipleship, and community among college students

• CRU Chattanooga with Lauren Basey: Discipleship, and student leadership development at UTC.
• The House Campus Ministry at UTC: College ministry helping students in Chattanooga discover real life in Jesus Christ through worship, community, pastoral care, service, and local church connection.
• RUF Campus Ministry at UTC: Reformed campus ministry where students can ask questions, find fellowship, worship God, serve others, and grow in the Gospel.

spiritual formation, leadership development, and mission mobilization

• Faith Co-Op: Equips Christians to connect faith and work, steward vocations, and pursue the flourishing of Chattanooga for God’s kingdom.
• Parakaleo: Gospel-rooted encouragement, discipleship, resilience, and leader formation for women, especially in the church-planting and ministry-leadership context.

advocacy and long-term support for vulnerable children and families

• Lookout for Orphans: Community of believers on Lookout Mountain and beyond promoting, celebrating, and nurturing adopted children and supporting adoptive and orphan-care efforts.

addressing physical, developmental, relational, and family health needs

• Choices: Free and confidential pregnancy services including pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, STI services, options counseling, parenting support, and related care.
• Lifespring Community Health: Pediatric, community, and developmental-behavioral healthcare for families: preventative, relational, holistic, culturally appropriate, and empowering care.

establishing new congregations, developing leaders and multiplying Gospel-centered communities for spiritual renewal and mission

• Highland Park Fellowship (Pastor Corby Shields): Cultivates a community in Chattanooga that proclaims Christ, disciples believers, and seeks the renewal of its neighborhood.
• Mercy Presbyterian Church, Knoxville (Pastor Rob Herron): Proclaims the mercy of Christ while forming disciples and fostering a church community rooted in grace and outreach in Knoxville.
• Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Athens (Pastor Curt Stapleton): Builds a Christ-centered congregation committed to faithful teaching, meaningful community, and the spiritual renewal of Athens.
• Woodlands Gathering: Gathers believers to worship, grow in discipleship, and engage their community with the hope and truth of the Gospel.
• Rural Church Planting with Corey Pelton: Supports and strengthens Gospel-centered churches in rural communities, equipping leaders and fostering sustainable ministry for long-term Kingdom impact.
• Cody Kennemar: Church planting apprenticeship through a three-year residency at Grace Community Church in Trenton, GA.
• Tennessee Valley Church Plant Network: Partners with churches and leaders to plant, resource, and multiply healthy congregations across the Tennessee Valley for the spread of the Gospel.