For the City Serve Day
November 1st, 2025
Each year during our For the City Serve Day, we go out as a church family to serve at projects to benefit our local partners. For all ages and skill levels, we will have various options for projects around town where your family can serve together.
Questions? Email our Outreach Director, Christy Crosby, at ccrosby@graceclarksville.com
Serve day Project Descriptions:
The projects listed below are the ones that are still in need of volunteers as of 10/31/25.
if you want to serve, show up at the location and time listed below:
Loaves & Fishes
Serving meal
Help serve lunch to our neighbors experiencing food insecurity. At Loaves & Fishes, you’ll help prepare, plate, and serve a hot meal while offering friendly smiles and kind words. This is more than just a meal, it’s a chance to extend dignity, build relationships, and remind people they are seen and loved.
Location: Loaves & Fishes – 825 Crossland Ave
Project Time: 8:00am–12:30pm
(Ages 16 & up)
Manna Cafe
Sort Donations for Christmas Market
Be part of making Christmas brighter for families in Clarksville. Volunteers will sort, organize, and prepare donated items for Manna Café’s Christmas Market, which provides parents the chance to choose gifts and essentials with dignity. Your time spent here helps create a meaningful holiday experience for families in need.
Location: Manna Cafe’ – 605 Providence Blvd
Project Time: 9:00am–Noon
(Ages 10 & up)
YAIPAKS WAREHOUSE
SORTING/PACKING DONATIONS
At the YaiPaks warehouse, you’ll sort and organize donated clothing and supplies that go directly to foster families. This hands-on project meets practical needs, but it also sends a powerful message of hope and care to some of our community’s most vulnerable kids.
Location: YaiPaks – 1255 Paradise Hill Rd.
Project Time: 9:00am–Noon
(All Ages)
Empty Bowls
Art for hunger relief
Tap into your creativity while fighting hunger in our city! Drop in to hand-paint pottery bowls that will be sold at the annual Empty Bowls Fundraiser. Each bowl you paint represents a meal for someone in need, with proceeds benefitting Manna Café, Urban Ministries, and Loaves & Fishes. This is an easy and meaningful way for individuals, families, and kids to participate in local hunger relief.
Location: Grace Community – 2853 Dunlop Ln
Project Time: Drop in between 1:30–3:00pm
(Ages 5 & up)
Local Partners
These organizations are always looking for volunteers. We encourage you to jump in and find a place to serve on a regular basis in our city at any one of our 5 local partners!
Questions? Email our Outreach Director, Christy Crosby at ccrosby@graceclarksville.com
Manna Café Ministries serves people in need in Clarksville/Montgomery County through serving hot meals, providing food box distribution, and other vital resources. Propelled chiefly by volunteers, Manna Café strives to restore hope, dignity, self-reliance, community, and the love of God through Jesus Christ.
Hope Pregnancy Center is a Christ-centered medical pregnancy help center committed to providing accurate information and quality services to women and couples facing an unexpected pregnancy. They provide help through education & assistance as well as other services and programs for crisis pregnancy situations, post-abortion trauma, and more.
YaiPak Outreach exists to serve the under-resourced through acts of kindness.Their mission is to meet those that are neglected, hurting, or afflicted where they are in order to provide support, comfort, and resources aimed at promoting positive life changes and reminding them that they are loved and important. They work with the homeless and veteran communities in our city as well as with the foster care system to care for those kids & families. YaiPaks also has a disaster relief program that partners with local communities during times of need.
Urban Ministries is an organization here in Clarksville that provides assistance with food, shelter and monthly living expenses as well as transportation, medical needs, and clothing. They also have a Safehouse for women & children experiencing domestic violence, as well as a transitional house for homeless families to assist them in getting off the streets.
Loaves and Fishes serves 150-200 meals daily to anyone that is hungry six days a week and distributes thousands of lbs. of food to 30+ other area churches agencies helping to reach the needy in the community. They also have community shower days for those that need access to a hot shower.