Community Partners
The Center for Spiritual Life and Leadership exists to help lay and clergy spiritual leaders grow deeper together to refine our collective ability to discern the leading of the Holy Spirit and God’s will.
The Center for Spiritual Life & Leadership is a missional partnership between the Turner Foundation, Brentwood United Methodist Church, and the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Annual Conference. It was founded in 2022, naming Rev. Dr. Laura Brantley as its executive director.
Center for Youth Ministry Training equips youth ministers and communities of faith to develop innovative, effective, theologically informed ministries so youth may experience the love and grace of Jesus Christ. CYMT offers a Graduate Residency in Youth Ministry through its partnership with Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary for students to earn a Master of Arts in Youth Ministry. CYMT is also home to two Lilly Endowment Strengthening Congregation Ministries with Youth Initiative programs, the Youth Ministry Innovation Lab and Theology Together.
In 2005, a task force was created with members from Brentwood United Methodist Church and First Presbyterian Church (Nashville) with the intention of exploring the possibilities of starting a youth ministry training program. In 2006, with the approval of both the First Presbyterian Session and the Brentwood United Methodist Church Council, the Center for Youth Ministry Training was born.
Harvest Hands is a catalyst for Christ-centered, holistic community development working alongside our neighbors to further education, healthy living, spiritual formation, and economic development in South Nashville.
Harvest Hands began as a vision of the late Dr. Howard Olds—former pastor of Brentwood United Methodist Church—to partner with an under-resourced neighborhood in Nashville for positive change. The idea centered on sharing resources, experiences, and expertise of the church in relationship with neighbors in South Nashville. In 2007, Brentwood United Methodist Church hired Rev. Brian Hicks to lead the effort in making this vision a reality.
Healing Housing is Williamson County's first transitional living program with a mission to shelter and love women healing from addiction. Opened in early 2017, Healing Housing’s two homes provide a safe, supportive environment where women who have completed drug treatment can continue to grow in their sobriety.
The faith-based program offers life-changing opportunities for women in need, including access to counseling, life skills training, savings programs, individualized healing plans, required outside employment, money management & budgeting courses, mandatory guided 12-step work, opportunities for weekly Bible study, community involvement, and mentorship.
South Africa Outreach is Brentwood United Methodist Church's umbrella ministry that refers to our partnerships with Brentwood Methodist Church South Africa and 3 schools in the Howick and Tumbleweed communities.
Brentwood Methodist Church South Africa (Tumbleweed) has flourished into an active congregation since its building was constructed in 2007. There is a preschool that operates out of the church to serve the community.
Angels' Care Centre (Howick) was established by concerned residents in the Umngeni Municipal area to address the needs of desperately poor children from the local informal settlements (Shiyabazali) who have experienced emotional and physical trauma.
Thembelihle (Howick) is a private school that serves pre-primary and primary school students from Shiyabazali and other informal settlements through the seventh grade.
In 2023, BUMC sponsored 455 students and 30 teachers across our 3 partner schools.
The Brentwood United Methodist Counseling Center is a unique collaboration between Brentwood United Methodist Church and psychotherapists in private practice. The therapists at the BUMC Counseling Center are not employees of the church. They were recruited to relocate their practices to the Counseling Center in order to support BUMC's commitment to making mental health resources available for children, youth, adults, couples, and families in Williamson County and the surrounding communities.
The BUMC Day School is a part-time preschool for children 1-5 years of age.
The Day School offers activities and experiences that promote living, growing, serving and learning with others. We believe every child is a very special person, and it is our goal that each one leaves our program with a feeling of self-worth, a caring spirit and a love for learning.
If you want to learn more about enrolling your child in the Day School, schedule a tour through the Day School Office.
The BUMC Early Learning Center is a full-time full-year preschool for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years.
The Early Learning Center ministers to the needs of young children and their families by providing a safe, loving, Christian environment to foster intellectual, social, physical, emotional, and spiritual growth and development. We understand that, through purposeful play and nurturing guidance from teachers, our children are inspired to think in more ways with creativity, compassion, and resourcefulness.
If you want to learn more about the Early Learning Center, take our virtual tour.
Troop One and Troop 22 are two troops within the Middle Tennessee Council of Scouts BSA that meet on the Brentwood United Methodist Church campus. Scouts BSA's mission is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
Troop One was founded on September 1, 1910, as the first troop in the Middle Tennessee Council and has remained active for over 100 years, serving middle school and high school boys in grades 6-12.
Troop 22 was founded in 2019 as the first all-female Scouts BSA Troop in Brentwood, Tennessee. This troop serves middle school and high school girls in grades 6-12.