With a mission to empower the local Church to serve the most vulnerable, World Relief Nashville was founded in 1985. Since then, we have worked alongside partner organizations and mobilized volunteers and churches to serve more than 5,000 refugees from all over the world. Today, our diverse staff represents more than eleven cultures and a dozen languages! In 2012, World Relief Nashville is preparing to welcome more than 500 new refugees with apartment set-ups, English classes, healthcare, education, cultural mentorship, employment and volunteer support.

A Refugee is an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances. They are people who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.