Servant Group International

Nashville, tn, is home to thousands of refugees and immigrants from the middle east, south asia, and africa. Sgi is able to provide translation services, citizenship instruction, job placement, medical help, food and other benevolence, english language learning classes and tutoring, urban gardening, and sewing instruction to numerous refugees. Training and equipping american volunteers to reach out to their refugee neighbors is a primary task of local staff members. With the help of 164 volunteers and 13 employees, sgi was able to grow our scope of services and provide assistance to approximately 647 unique refugees. Nashville-based outreach programs include distributing several thousand pounds of produce throughout the refugee community; helping unemployed refugee (continued on schedule o)

In response to the ongoing refugee crisis in the world, sgi supports teams to distribute food and other supplies to needy families in n. Iraq, turkey, and austria through the local church. In africa, we provide prayer, counsel, encouragement and funding to indigenous workers for outreach efforts, emergency relief, persecuted support, community development and church planting.

In february 2023 a series of major earthquakes devastated eastern turkey. In the ensuing months, sgi raised nearly 90k in funds to help with relief efforts. These funds were primarily used to build about 200 temporary shelters for displaced survivors. Each shelter could accommodate a family of 3-6 persons, and several of our nashville team members participated on the construction crews that built these shelters.