Perfect timing!  This year, Hickory Bend is making Room In The Inn on Christmas Day!  How exciting that we can actually be with our guests on the night we celebrate the birth of our Lord!  Jesus was born in a stable because there was no room in the inn.  On Christmas night, we will welcome our guests with food, clean linens, and a safe place to spend the night.  We will also be able to take the love and care of Hickory Bend to our homeless guests.  We are so pleased to be a part of this wonderful ministry with Andrew Price Memorial UMC and approximately 150 other churches in the Nashville area. more…

For years, Lilli Parker has led carolers to Cloverbottom to deliver gifts from Hickory Bend members to the residents of Cloverbottom.  Now, this is one cherished Hickory Bend tradition that sadly, must end.  Cloverbottom Developmental Center, long scheduled to close, is at last, and in fact, closing its doors for the last time. more…

Please join us for our retelling of a wonderful story from Appalachia during World War I. more…

Hickory Bend United Methodist Church tied for winner of Best Element at the 2008 Christmas Parade! The awards will be presented at the Chamber of Commerce General Membership Luncheon on Thursday, January 8th at Gaylord Springs. Congrats to Hickory Bend UMC for another award winning year!

Come join us for a Children’s Christmas Program beginning at 5 p.m. in the fellowship hall followed by our “Lighting the Word for the World” program out under the shelter. After we ‘turn on the lights’, we’ll return to the fellowship hall for cookies, hot chocolate, coffee and hot cider. All we need now are some cookies and YOU! more…

Each Christmas we have asked the congregation to purchase poinsettias in honor or memory of someone. This year, instead of buying poinsettias, we are asking folks to make a $5 contribution in memory or in honor of someone. This money will be used for our Fisherman’s Fund to help with our outreach ministry. A donation designation form will be in our Sunday bulletins for the next three Sundays. more…

Many thanks to those of you who donated non-perishable food items for our annual Thanksgiving ‘delivery’ to East ,ashville Cooperative Ministries and a big ‘thank you’ to Joan Williams for delivering these items to the Ministry. She reports that many of their shelves are completely bare and folks who need help are standing in long, long lines.  more…

Children ll and under are invited to eat for free when accompanied by a paying adult on December 17 at the Good Grub Café All-Church Christmas party. Santa will be a special guest of the evening and is looking forward to greeting all his friends at Hickory Bend.

Good Grubbies, Swedish Meatballs and Noodles, Chicken Enchilada Dip and Chips, Cool Veggie Pizza, Oyster Cracker Snacks, Chipped Beef Cheese Ball and Crackers, Little Smokies, Spiced Pecans, Powdered Sugar Honey Balls, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Bars, Oats in a Jam Squares, and special guest Santa!

Please consider donating just one side dish or one dessert to the Christmas dinner this year. Many hanks to those of you who have contributed money toward purchase of the hams for the entree. We plan on delivering the meal on Christmas Eve at about noon, and the menu will be posted on the back bulletin board.