Nashville Rescue Mission

Need Help?

Meal times:
5am - 7am
11am - 1pm
5pm - 7pm

Need Help?

All of us need some help at some time. The staff and volunteers at the Nashville Rescue Mission truly care about you as a person, and are more than willing to assist you. Though we often see people going through tough times, we know through God’s grace and some assistance, life will get better. Nashville Rescue Mission exists to serve people who need a hand up out of difficult circumstances, whether that means a hot meal, a warm place to sleep for the night or help recovering from an addiction. Most of all, it means we are here to share the love of Christ.

Homeless? Hungry?

Guests receive clean clothing, hot showers, personal care items and nutritious food to sustain them during their stay as well as the opportunity to join our long-term recovery program.

Carl Resener Men’s Shelter
639 Lafayette Street
Nashville, TN 37203

Family Life Center for Women & Children
1716 Rosa L. Parks Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37208

Need help with a life-controlling problem?

The following life-recovery programs at the Nashville Rescue Mission provide the Christian support and guidance for those seeking to recover from self-destruction and addiction:

Anchor Home for men ages 18 to 25
Barnabas House for men 25 and up
Hope Center for women 18 and up

Requirements:

• On-site interview
• Climb a flight of stairs several times a day
• Get into a top bunk, if necessary
• Stand on your feet for an hour or so at a time, if necessary
• Mentally stable, able to cooperate and communicate with the staff, as well as with other clients*
• Free of legal demands on your time**
• Likelihood that after the basic part of the program, client will be able to seek and secure full-time employment in the community

Program Description:

• Not merely a substance-abuse program
• Programs are Christian in orientation, believing a commitment to Jesus Christ is not just the right thing to do, but is the healthiest way to approach life in general
• Program is free of charge
• Residential, approximately seven months in length
• Fairly rigorous
• Requires clients attend classes, meetings, chores, exercise times, counseling, etc. nearly all day, nearly every day
• Following graduation, clients are eligible to enter transitional housing where there is a nominal charge each month

Our programs are designed to provide long-term care and guidance. With an attitude of acceptance, we seek to maintain an environment most conducive to true life-recovery for men and women who have been struggling with, for example, moral decay, alienation, addictive behavior, criminal conduct, educational inadequacies, financial problems, depression and/or hopelessness.

We hope to see every client enter into a saving relationship with Jesus Christ and restore and improve fellowship and commitment to the Lord. We want every client to improve as needed in terms of physical and emotional wellbeing, and for every client to complete the program and live thereafter in sobriety, stability and service, and support them self financially.

Program handbooks can be downloaded here where you can find a more detailed description of our policies and procedures.

For further information call (615) 255-2475 or email us at rescue@nashvillerescuemission.org

*We have limited space for those clients under psychiatric or medical care, and certain medications are banned, regardless.
**All clients must be relatively free of legal demands on their time. We accept a limited number of clients on probation, parole or furlough, but only if their probation officer is willing to work within our rules. We receive no local, state or federal funding whatsoever, and therefore are under no governmental constraints regarding how we operate.