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St. Edward Parish Room In The Inn
Our Room in the Inn Winter Emergency Shelter program will start on November 2, 2024.
This winter, our parish's Room In The Inn program is once again offering an opportunity for parishioners to help our homeless neighbors. We invite you to join us in this vital ministry by offering your time, talent, or financial support.
In addition to volunteering, this year you can directly contribute to the Room In The Inn Winter Shelter at St. Edward's. Your donations will provide essential winter supplies for our guests, ensuring that their stay with us is as comfortable and blessed as possible. As Jan Claiborne shared:“Donate directly to help Room In The Inn Winter Shelter at St. Edward's. This money will provide much-needed winter supplies for our guests and make their stay with us the most blessed it can be.”
Together, we can make a significant impact in our community, providing warmth, comfort, and hope to those in need during the coldest months. To contribute, please visit https://www.osvhub.com/stedwards/giving/funds/room-in-the-inn or contact Greg Beem at [email protected].For more information, please contact Greg Beem at [email protected].
Room In The Inn began in 1986 when Charles Strobel, then a Catholic priest, offered peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to those in need near his East Nashville church.Room In The Inn’s Winter Shelter Program runs from November through March each year in coordination with over 100 congregations throughout Middle Tennessee. This program provides shelter, warm meals, and fellowship for those experiencing homelessness during the coldest months of the year. In the 2023-24 season, congregations provided over 15,000 beds.Each participating congregation organizes its own volunteers, meals, and services for the Winter Shelter program. This model has been adopted by 36 other cities, including Calgary, Canada, and Charlotte, North Carolina.At St. Edward, we offer shelter, dinner, snacks, and drinks for nine men on Saturday night. After breakfast on Sunday morning, we return them to the Room In The Inn campus with a sack lunch.To make a financial contribution to our Room in the Inn ministry, click here.
Volunteers are needed:
Set Up & Clean Up
We are in need of volunteers to help with the set-up and clean-up of the St. Edward Room in the Inn program. You can help us on Saturday afternoon at 4:00 PM or Sunday morning at 6:00 AM in the Family Life Center (gym).
Click here to volunteer for set-up/clean-up.
Transporting Guests
We need drivers to transport our guests from the Room In The Inn downtown campus to St. Edward on Saturday afternoon. Drivers are also needed on Sunday morning to return guests to the Room In The Inn campus at 705 Drexel St, Nashville, TN.
Each driver typically transports three guests, although vehicles that can accommodate more are welcome. We usually need three drivers for a total of nine guests.
Saturday: Meet at St. Edward at 5:00 PM to carpool to the downtown campus.
Sunday: Meet at St. Edward at 5:45 AM to transport guests back to the downtown campus.Our guests spend Saturday night in the St. Edward gym. We provide dinner on Saturday night, breakfast on Sunday morning, and a to-go sack lunch. The program runs from November 1 to March 31, with St. Edward participating on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month.
Click here to volunteer as a driver.
Prepare / Serve Meals
St. Edward provides hospitality, meals, and shelter to nine guests two Saturdays each month from November 1 to March 31. Volunteers are needed to help prepare and serve meals for the following:
- Dinner for nine guests and three innkeepers (12 total) on Saturday at 6:00 PM. Provide paper products, desserts, and drinks.
- Breakfast for 12 people on Sunday morning at 5:30 AM. Provide paper products and drinks.
- "To Go" sack lunches for nine guests on Sunday morning before 6:00 AM.
- Snacks for guests on Saturday evening at 6:00 PM.
Click here to volunteer to prepare / serve meals.
Innkeeper / Overnight Host
We are looking for Innkeepers for the Room in the Inn program starting in November. If you volunteered as an Innkeeper last year, we would love to have you again this season. Please note, a teenage child of an innkeeper may stay, but only one child may serve per night.
Innkeepers are provided with a cot, pillow, and bed linen. Food and beverages will be provided. Arrival is at 5:00 PM on Saturday, and departure is at 7:00 AM on Sunday.
Click here to volunteer as an Innkeeper.
