Siloam Health - January 2022 Newsletter

JANUARY NEWSLETTER | 2022

30 Years of Health Care

Transformed by Love

Kicking Off Siloam Health’s

30th Anniversary

30 years ago, Vanderbilt physician and Siloam Health co-founder Dr. David Gregory passed a note during a service at Belmont Church wondering if it would be “desirable and feasible” to create a health ministry in the Edgehill neighborhood.

Little did he imagine the impact it would have on thousands of uninsured Nashvillians, including diverse new neighbors from over 100 nations who would increasingly call Nashville home.

From providing vital refugee screenings for waves of groups like the Kurds, Somalis, and Lost Boys of Sudan to serving those impacted most by the COVID-19 pandemic, God always seemed to be positioning Siloam in the right place at the right time for outsized impact. The call to share the love of Christ with the underserved, uninsured, and culturally marginalized is one He’s empowered us to answer time and time again over the last 30 years. That impact ripples forward in the lives of literally thousands of volunteers, students, and even Siloam patients who are now living out a similar calling in other settings.

Thanks to your support, we’ve seen Nashville thrive and patients’ lives forever changed because they have experienced something truly unique at

Siloam: health care transformed by love. We are excited to spend 2022 celebrating this milestone, and we hope you will join us in whatever ways you can as we share that gift with the Nashville community for the next 30 years.

Sincerely,

Morgan Wills, MD President & CEO

LOOK BACK AT 30 YEARS OF CARE OVER

50,000 OUR YEAR OF CELEBRATION Siloam Health is excited to celebrate three decades of ministry, hope, and healing. With Christ's love and your support, we’ve served our neighbors in need - changing lives, families, and communities along the way. From our earliest days, we have never been alone; our generous volunteers, donors, and supporters have made this ministry a refuge for the thousands of patients Siloam has cared for.

Join us as we cherish the moments we were made for, times when we were called to step up so that Nashville could be a sanctuary to the underserved, uninsured, and culturally marginalized. While faithfully putting our trust in God’s divine plan, Siloam Health has existed to transform Nashville's vulnerable communities so they can flourish.

Thanks to you, our neighbors from many nations have experienced health care transformed by love.

We ask that you join us, in whatever ways you can, as we kick off a yearlong 30th Anniversary celebration. Save the dates of our upcoming events, reminisce on Siloam’s history of healing, and join us in prayer using our Prayer Plan.

patients cared for.

OVER

9,000 engaged volunteers.

Siloam's patients represent more than

100 homelands and spoken languages.

Siloam Health: A History of Healing Siloam opens its first satellite clinic - Siloam Health Antioch to broaden our capacity to provide whole-person care to underserved communities in one of Nashville’s regions hit hardest by the COVID-19

With seed money from

1988

Dr. David Gregory passes a note in Belmont Church

Belmont Church, Siloam

Siloam begins a

Siloam formalizes

pandemic. Siloam's COVID-19

transforms two small

formal partnership

student education

response efforts were highlighted

apartments in the

to administer

programs to train

by a partnership with Metro

Edgehill neighborhood

refugee medical

the next generation

Public Health Department

off 12th Avenue South

screenings for every

of health profes-

(MPHD) designed to hire and

refugee resettled in

sionals in the art of

train Community Health

into a clinic seeing patients once a week.

1991

19921995

Siloam becomes a medical refuge for native Nashvillians

Davidson County.

2001

2005

Siloam opens the doors of a brand-

whole-person care.

2012

2014

Siloam launches community health initiatives to address

Workers.

2020

TODAY & BEYOND

Siloam Health is a faithbased, multi-site nonprofit

reflecting his dream for a

and the growing immigrant

new clinic located

the social determinants of

health care organization

faith-based, volun-

community alike, adding

in what is now

health that affect our

that combines medical care,

teer-supported clinic that

language interpreters to our

known as the

immigrant patients in their

community health, and

would provide affordable,

volunteer base to meet the

Melrose area of

own communities.

student education to serve

high-quality health care

demand.

Nashville.

thousands of uninsured,

to Nashville's most

underserved, and culturally

medically vulnerable.

marginalized individuals from all over the world.

Siloam Health: A History of Healing Siloam opens its first satellite clinic - Siloam Health Antioch to broaden our capacity to provide whole-person care to underserved communities in one of Nashville’s regions hit hardest by the COVID-19

With seed money from

1988

Dr. David Gregory passes a note in Belmont Church

Belmont Church, Siloam

Siloam begins a

Siloam formalizes

pandemic. Siloam's COVID-19

transforms two small

formal partnership

student education

response efforts were highlighted

apartments in the

to administer

programs to train

by a partnership with Metro

Edgehill neighborhood

refugee medical

the next generation

Public Health Department

off 12th Avenue South

screenings for every

of health profes-

(MPHD) designed to hire and

refugee resettled in

sionals in the art of

train Community Health

into a clinic seeing patients once a week.

1991

19921995

Siloam becomes a medical refuge for native Nashvillians

Davidson County.

2001

2005

Siloam opens the doors of a brand-

whole-person care.

2012

2014

Siloam launches community health initiatives to address

Workers.

2020

TODAY & BEYOND

Siloam Health is a faithbased, multi-site nonprofit

reflecting his dream for a

and the growing immigrant

new clinic located

the social determinants of

health care organization

faith-based, volun-

community alike, adding

in what is now

health that affect our

that combines medical care,

teer-supported clinic that

language interpreters to our

known as the

immigrant patients in their

community health, and

would provide affordable,

volunteer base to meet the

Melrose area of

own communities.

student education to serve

high-quality health care

demand.

Nashville.

thousands of uninsured,

to Nashville's most

underserved, and culturally

medically vulnerable.

marginalized individuals from all over the world.

SAVE THE DATES January 25th | Worship Night Join us for Worship Night as we return to our roots, singing praises at Belmont Church - which funded Siloam's first 3 years of health care ministry in the Edgehill community. Together, we will worship and make much of Jesus' faithfulness over the past 30 years of health care transformed by love.

April 14th | Amplify Nashville Siloam Health has a front-row seat to the amazing contributions immigrants and refugees make to our city. Amplify Nashville highlights some of these extraordinary individuals and the entrepreneurial innovation, cultural diversity, and vibrant spirit they bring to our community.

June 20th | Faces of Nashville

In honor of World Refugee Day on June 20th, Siloam Health is bringing back Faces of Nashville - a portrait and story series in partnership with world-renowned photographer Jeremy Cowart.

November 5th | 30th Anniversary Gala We will celebrate the past 30 years of health care ministry and faithfully walk into our next chapter with our steadfast supporters. Join us for our 30th Anniversary Gala at the Music City Center, followed by the After Party. You won't want to miss it!

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