"Accompaniment" is a way of understanding ministry that emphasizes walking alongside our ministry partners. We believe that ministry is mutual, equal, just, and interdependent. We use the word "accompaniment" to describe how we walk alongside immigrant and refugee communities in our community. This area of our mission is lived out in the following places:

• Supporting Kiswahili Lutheran Mission, our closest partner congregation

• Working with Inspiritus and TIRRC as they welcome people to our country

• Hosting partner congregations, mainly made of immigrants and refugees, in our building

• Hosting the Growing Together program of the Nashville Food Project

• In relationships between members of our church

At Christ Lutheran Church, we host the Growing Together farm, which is run by the Nashville Food Project. Growing Together gives refugees and immigrants from agricultural backgrounds the ability to make a living wage from their skilled labor of growing food. On the eight acres of our property, they grow thousands of pounds of organic produce for the whole city.

We also have a community garden which is run by some of our members. Members of the congregation grow their own fresh fruits and vegetables. Most people grow corn, beans, tomatoes, peppers, and leafy greens.

Every Saturday in May through October from 9am to noon, join us for a farmers' market! Stock up on fresh veggies, fruits, bread, cheese, and grab a coffee or a meal from a food truck. SNAP is accepted at the farmers' market!

Every Tuesday at 9am, quilters gather to make quilts for Lutheran World Relief. These quilts go all over the world - to refugee camps far from us, and throughout our own country during disasters and at homeless shelters. Every year, they make hundreds of quilts to distribute!

Everyone is welcome to join our quilting group, no matter your level of experience with sewing and quilting. You are invited to join us!

We practice hospitality as a form of spirituality, including hosting a number of ecumenical partners. Our partner churches represent the ethnic, linguistic, and national diversity of South Nashville. Together, we pray for one another and mutually care for one another's ministries.

Our sister churches include:

• San Matias Anglican Church

• Discupulos de Cristo

• Hermon Grace Church 

• Kiswahili Lutheran Mission

Our partner organizations include:

• The Nashville Food Project

• The Branch Food Bank

• Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition

• Elmahaba Center

• Inspiritus