+ St. Vincent de Paul Society

SVDP Society at Saint Henry Church provides assistance to parishioners and non-parishioners with a variety of needs. Staffed by members of Saint Henry and supported by a monthly collection at the church, and once a month food collections at the school, the local St. Vincent de Paul Society helps those in need with necessities such as food, utilities and rent.

+ Room in the Inn - Main Campus

An interfaith agency for the homeless that supplies daycare, food stamps, and job and housing assistance.

+ St. Henry Room in the Inn

St. Henry Room in the Inn houses homeless guests at Saint Henry from the first Sunday night in November to the last Sunday night in March. Volunteers can help in any one of a number of ways: set up in the dining hall, drive vans, prepare dinners and sack lunches, spend the night as innkeepers, or clean up in the morning. Volunteers are always needed and welcomed!

Room in the Inn at St. Henry Winter 2023

Each year as the temperatures drop Churches in the Nashville area open their doors to welcome in guests from the Room in the Inn. These guests are currently homeless and looking for refuge from the streets. St. Henry is one of the churches that has continued to provide this service since the very beginning of Room in the Inn, which was started by Fr. Charlie Strobel in 1986. We are beginning to plan out this season and are looking for help from our parishioners.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: We need Innkeepers to stay overnight in the school gym and we need evening and morning drivers for the church bus to transport our guests. Please email the Room in the Inn liaison, Steve Dobson at stevedobson30@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer or if you have any questions about these opportunities.

+ Reconciliation Guest House

Creats an environment where families can suppport one another and meet their emotional and spiritual needs through the crisis of the incarceration of a loved one. Services offered includ a guest-house where family members may stay while visiting a loved on in prison, a support group for adults as well as tutoring and special programs for children.

+ Fifty Forward - Living at Home

The mission is to support, champion and enhance life for those 50 and older. St. Henry spports the Fifty Forward Living at Home program which provides care managment to assist older adults with low incomes to remain living in the community as long as possible, and Fifty Forward Fres/Meals on Wheels which provides nutritious, home-delivered meals o older adults who cannot access healthy food on their own. Volunteers are welcome.

+ Hope Clinic for Women

Hope Clinic for Women is a faith-based, non-profit organization that provides a safe and confidential place for anyone dealing with life choices regarding past, present, and future pregnancies. They provide Christian alternatives to abortion through education, counsel, and medical care.

+ Interfaith Dentistry

The Interfaith Dentistry Program is a non-profit organization providing affordable dental care to low-income, working families who do not have dental insurance.

+ Open Arms Ministry

Open Arms Ministry serves special needs young adults by pairing them up with a sponsor through the Catholic Church.

+ Nashville Rescue Mission - Women's Campus

Nashville Rescue Mission—Women’s Campus is an intense, comprehensive, Christ-centered program designed to help women (18 and over)understanding the reasons behind their struggle with addiction, homelessness, and other broken lifestyles-and what steps they need to take to rebuild their life on a solid foundation rooted in God's Word and long-lasting solutions. The Mission's program does not focus on just one part of a person's life, but believes that it is important to affect a person's entire life-physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, and social. The rescue mission is committed to restoring the whole person through a Christian approach that helps the homeless and addicted learn how much God loves them and gain the Biblical insight they need to lead a productive life in and for Christ.

+ Matthew 25

Matthew 25 is a partner agency working with the United Way and Veterans Administration that provides a supportive and non-threatening environment, including counseling, room and board, and job assistance for up to eight months to men who make a commitment to remove themselves from the addiction that has made them homeless and unable to support themselves. Parish members and groups can assist by preparing dinner for 35 men one night, donating magazines, paperback books, bus tickets, supermarket gift certificates, durable men’s work clothes or supporting the job needs of an enrollee. This agency has shown itself to be very effective in accomplishing its mission.

+ Loaves & Fishes Lunch Program

Community Meals for the Hungry, a Catholic Charities program, offers breakfast and lunch every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday to approximately 120-150 homeless and low income neighbors in the Holy name Parish neighborhood. St. Henry volunteers prepare and serve lunch on the third Monday of each month, as well a bake beownies, which are delivered to Loaves and fishes on the same day. Volunteers are always welcome.

+ North Nashville Outreach

North Nashville Outreach assists the most in-need of North Nashville. Volunteers provide home visitation, tutoring, help with finding employment, and assistance to the elderly.

+ Safe Haven

Safe Haven Family Shelter is an overnight shelter for five homeless families. Volunteers from St. Henry help on the first Thursday of each month by staying overnight as innkeepers, by preparing and serving a dinner for 20-25, and by contributing nonperishable breakfast foods for 20-25 people.

+ Social Action Committee

The responsibility of the Social Action Committee is to support the needs of parishioners and the community through new and existing social action programs, to promote charitable works, enlist human resources and publicity for social assistance. The members of this committee work to raise the awareness level of the parish as a whole, and to educate all as to the Catholic Church’s teachings on the wide variety of issues surrounding peace and justice.

+ St. Henry Haiti Ministry

The Haiti Mission, a part of the Twinning Program of the Americas, currently supports two Haiti parishes, Notre Dame de Guadalupe in Darlegrand and St. Thomas Aquinas in Thomassique. Since 1978, contributions from Saint Henry Church have provided educational, medical, and economic supplies to our brothers and sisters In Haiti. Volunteers have not only made trips to Haiti to assess the needs of the parishes, but also continue to work to create an awareness at home of how our parish efforts are making a difference.

+ Ladies of Charity

The Ladies of Charity is an organization of Catholic women who volunteer their time and talent in many areas of charitable work in the community. For over 119 years we hve been a beacon of hope for the needy. No exclusion is made with regard to religion, race or ethnicity of the people we serve. Our primary source of income is the operation of our volunteer consigment clothing sale. We provide scholarships to 4 girls to attend area Carholic high schools. Our welfare program assists with rent,utilities, and food assistance. We welcome any ladies to join our mission to "serve, rather than be served."

+ The Renewal House

The Renewal House recognizes that separating a mother, or mother-to-be from her children during addiction treatment is not effective. So, they keep the mother and her children together throughout the recovery process recognizing that this is effective for both the mother and the child in developing healthy and productive lives.

+ Nurture the Next

NTN works in homes of young families, living in poverty, helping them break cycles of violence and hardship. We walk alongside parent on their parenting journey. NTN runs the statewide domestic violence helpline and the parent helpline. Advocacy and education work happens across the state in order to better support children and families.