• The MOST incredible group of staff, interns, contract counselors and post-masters fellows who devote their skills, talents and hearts to bring hope, healing and transformation to those facing storms in their lives!

• 21 Board Members and 17 Partnership Council/Growing Home Leadership Team Members who are engaged, passionate, generous and faithful in their service to The Refuge Center.

• New Church Missional Partnership with Church of the City.

• Most successful fundraisers (Live Intentionally, The Big Payback and Hope Grows) with attendees and funds raised – in all of The Refuge Center history.

• New Collaborative Partnership with Justice and Mercy International, with the first counseling trip to the Amazon in July. Trips to Amazon and Moldova coming in 2020.

• Annexation and Rezoning of Long Lane property completed in July.

• Purchase of Long Lane property in August for our future home.

• Reached $1.37 million in Growing Home Capital Campaign.

• Implementation of a Sabbatical program for staff.

• Released a book collaboration: “Inner Technology: How to be Human in a Digital World” launched in September.

• TNU Doctoral Program completed a comprehensive culture assessment of our organization with very positive results.

• Our compassion care culture was featured in the Tennessean.

• We hosted our first ever Grief Retreat on September 28th, which was sold out and worked with 16 women who embarked on life-changing work through experiential, group and individual grief ritual and healing processes.

• 19% increase in counseling services! On track to provide more life-changing counseling sessions to MORE people than any other year in Refuge Center history.

WE ARE THANKFUL!