56 THE GREENEVILLE SUN GREENE COUNTY GUIDEBOOK
Friday, August 31, 2012
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FWBFM Assists At-Risk Children, Adults And Families In 1939, a Free Will Baptist Orphanage was founded in the small, rural community of Camp Creek at the foot of the Cherokee National Forest in Greene County. Since that time, Free Will Baptist Family Ministries has evolved into a comprehensive social service agency with a full range of services to meet the needs of pregnant teens and young women, infants, toddlers, adolescents, atrisk teens, senior citizens and families. The overall goal of Family Ministries is to provide strong support systems that enable the youth and adults they serve to become productive and healthy members of their communities. Family Ministries strives to reach out to hurting youth and families with a message of love and healing. This goal is being achieved through various programs and services.
vate living units complete with kitchenettes and cable TV, wireless Internet, and phone service available. Local transportation is provided, as well as three meals each day in an elegant dining room. The facility includes a chapel, library, private dining room, wellness center, barber shop and beauty salon, multi-media activities room, two inside courtyards, gift shop and daily planned activities. PHOTO COURTESY FREE WILL BAPTIST FAMILY MINISTRIES Call 276-679-5635 for The headquarters and main campus of Free Will Baptist Family Ministries is more information.
located on a beautiful site in the Camp Creek Community of Greene County, very near the Unakas and the Cherokee National Forest.
school and intensive day-treatment program, serves children who come to the facility academically unprepared to enter the public school system. The ministry strives to lay a solid foundation upon which they can rebuild the broken pieces of their lives. Family Ministries also TRULA CRONK HOMES has residential facilities in The main campus in Arkansas. Camp Creek consists of four cottages. GOT LOVE? FOSTER CARE The Trula Cronk Homes PROGRAM for Children serve at-risk The Got Love? Foster youth across Tennessee, Care Program brings Greene County and several together loving, wellother surrounding counties trained foster families and who are referred by the Ten- children who have been nessee Department of Chil- placed in foster care. dren’s Services, juvenile It is a licensed childcourts, judges and other placing agency with the agencies. State of Tennessee. FosFamily Ministries seeks ter care and special needs to provide a safe environ- adoption are vital aspects ment with trained, loving of this ministry. house parents and staff Family Ministries’ misto help nurture hurting sion is to see children boys and girls and their achieve permanency families. through reunification and independent living. JACKSON-TOLLE LEARNING Foster parents have the CENTER unique opportunity to The Jackson-Tolle change forever the life of a Learning Center, Fam- teen by providing the setting ily Ministries’ licensed for change through a positive K-12 private Christian family environment.
HOPE CENTER The Hope Center Crisis Pregnancy/Resource Center, located at 314 Tusculum Blvd., next to Greeneville High School, provides young mothers with baby supplies, parenting and nutrition classes and other educational information. Maternity supplies are also available, as well as free pregnancy tests, confidential counseling, and assistance for teens and women of all ages in crisis. The office number is 6385433, and Director Sharon Hodgens can be reached at 470-2202. THE OAKS RETREAT CENTER At the Oaks Retreat Center, activities such as retreats, corporate events, camps, special events, and family outings can be accommodated
in a beautiful setting. There are also pre-programmed events open to the public such as weekly and day camps. This year-round facility has 16 guest rooms, RV hookups, rock climbing wall, zip line and an outdoor pool with water slide. The retreat center is located at 165 Camp Joshua Lane in Greeneville. Call 470-2226 for more information. THE LAURELS RETIREMENT AND ASSISTED LIVING The Laurels Retirement and Assisted Living facility is in Wise, Va. At The Laurels, seniors needing some assistance with daily activities and medications can spend their retirement years in a caring community. The Laurels features 45 spaciously-designed pri-
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ADMINISTRATION The Rev. Frank Woods is president and CEO of GOVERNOR’S BEND FWBFM. RETIREMENT, ASSISTED LIVING Call 423-639-9449, or Governor’s Bend, locat- send email to info@fwbfm. ed at 1631 Zane Whit- com. Go online at www. son Drive, in Erwin, was fwbfm.com
Veterans Service Office Aids Retired Military Personnel The Greene County Veterans Service Office aids veterans and their families by helping them file for pension benefits, service-connected disability compensation, ordering grave markers and medals, and obtaining other military service-related benefits. “We are here to provide service to veterans and their families for anything they may need assistance with,” said Veterans Service Officer Steve Alexander. The local Veterans Service Office is funded by the Greene County government. The Veterans Service Office is at 101 Longview Drive in the American Legion Post 64 building. Office hours are Monday to Thursday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call 798-1707.
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