Nashville Tornado: Day Two-We're on the Ground

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Nashville suffered a tornado that left at least 24 dead, 77 missing, and many homes destroyed.    

WHAT WE ARE DOING:
GERMANTOWN  - Feeding Station for residents & responders
NASHVILLE - Response teams for debris removal, chainsawing, & tarping
COOKEVILLE - Response teams for debris removal, chainsawing, & tarping

THE NEED:
Germantown - Direct hit to homes and businesses; Growing concern about the need for hunger relief for families without power, especially low income or disabled families and children living in the area or families taking shelter in local facilities.
Nashville - This continues to be a search and rescue operation and crews are going house to house. At this time, there are 24 confirmed fatalities, including some children, and more than 88 injuries are being treated at Cookeville Regional Medical Center.*
Cookeville - Putnam County emergency officials confirmed 18 of the 24 Nashville tornado fatalities occurred in this one community, 77 remain unaccounted for at this time.**

HOW TO HELP:  

Donate: click here  
Volunteer: click here 
Mail: Gift Cards & Checks   

We need gift cards and financial donations, desperately: 

• Home Depot and Lowe's cards: for home repair work and debris removal tools

• Gas cards: to get volunteer teams to and from the disaster sites where homeowners are in need

• VISA cards: for clients who have extreme financial needs for survival, and for disaster work supplies

• WalMart cards: to feed volunteer teams, and for clients with extreme financial needs for survival (ex. Pharmacy medications, baby supplies, etc.)

Gift Cards & Checks can be mailed to:

Inspiritus 

Attn: Disaster Response 

1628 Rosa L. Parks Blvd. 

Nashville, TN 37208

We need your help as those vulnerable in the path of this storm will need additional resources and shelter. To that point, we are also collaborating with our friends at Lutheran Disaster Response, the Tennessee VOAD, the Southeastern Synod of the ECLA, and the Mid-South District of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, as we assess and prepare our short-term and long-term response and recovery work in Middle Tennessee.

To donate, click here and select Nashville 2020 Tornado. Our prayers are with everyone in this tornado's path.

Blessings to all our friends and family in Nashville! 

-Virginia Spencer
Vice President of Development
Inspiritus



P.S. Today, volunteers from St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Franklin, TN joined us and grilled 700 burgers & hotdogs at our Inspiritus Nashville site in Germantown (formerly St. Paul's Lutheran Church). The community came together to serve residents and responders; including policemen, power linemen, and first responders. With your support, we will continue bringing the community together to serve & be filled with hope! (Pictured: CEO-John Moeller, Regional Director of Middle Tennessee-Janet Arning, and Program Coordinator-Christie Farrar)