Tennessee Baptist Adult Homes
Report to Tennessee Baptist Associations
2018
By: Mark Anderson, President/Treasurer
Tennessee Baptist Adult Homes continues to provide a Christian residential ministry for senior
adults and for exceptional adults. This ministry is provided in senior adult living communities
and in residential group homes in several locations within our great state. The most notable
change to the ministry of TBAH during this past year is that we sold the Baptist Health Care
Center in Lenoir City. The sweeping changes in the delivery of nursing home care over the past
two decades gave rise to the need to sell the facility. Its antiquated architecture and the
monumental expenditures that would be required to make it compatibility with newer codes and
requirements to make it a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF).
The proceeds from the sale of the Baptist Health Care Center have been used to retire the debt
that had been incurred in the beginning phases of Williams Ferry Pointe, an independent living
retirement community adjacent to the health care center. We have been working closely with a
developer and with the city to get building started again at Williams Ferry Pointe.
Baptist Village of Johnson City now has a new manager. After serving faithfully for over 20
years as Manager there, Sarah Farmer of Johnson City, retired and Carol Church has been named
the new Manager for the location. These duplex homes are for retirees who need affordable
housing and the rent is based on income. Preference is given to retired ministers and
missionaries.
The Deer Lake Retirement Community in the Bellevue community of Nashville is a 135-
condominium unit complex for retirees. These modest duplex homes offer home ownership in an
affordable retirement community. TBAH provides a manager for the complex and employs a
part-time chaplain for the spiritual care of these independent seniors.
The group home ministry for exceptional adults continues to provide a Christian home for up to
55 men and women who need assistance and supervision. These homes, located in Nashville,
Lebanon, Knoxville, and Jacksboro are often a forever home for the individuals who move in.
Their diminished intellectual abilities would make them too vulnerable to live alone in the
community. These homes provide family. Your generous gifts to the annual Father’s Day
Offering keeps these homes going.
Finally, the Special Friends Camps were near capacity in attendance this summer. Funded
primarily by the Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions, these camps provide at least three
things; 1) a week of activities for the campers with intellectual and physical disabilities, 2) a
week of respite for the families of the campers who provide care day in and day out at home, and
3) two weeks of rewarding, hard work for the young people who staff the camps…not to mention
the life-long friendships these young staffers make as Counselors.
Thank you for your prayers and your generous support. In short…
Thank you for “Showing What Love Is!”