Tennessee Baptist Adult Homes 50th Year Anniversary

Father’s Day promotion for TBAH Board Members 2024

Tennessee Baptist Adult Homes provides a Christian residential ministry

for two specific and distinct groups of people; financially needy senior

adults and adults who have intellectual and developmental disabilities.

There are two locations, in Humboldt and in Johnson City, where

financially needy seniors are provided a modest duplex apartment for

rent that is based on a sliding scale. Retired pastors and missionaries are

given priority admission to these rental homes.

There are four locations where adults with intellectual and

developmental disabilities are cared for in a family-like group home

arrangement. These locations are Hermitage, Lebanon, Knoxville, and

Jacksboro, serving 55 men and women with disabilities.

The senior adult side of the Adult Homes ministry began in 1974, making

this year the 50th anniversary of providing care. The group homes side,

though, is only 35 years old, having begun in 1989. It is the group home

ministry that has created the need for the annual Father’s Day offering

which was initiated in 2001. The President of Adult Homes at the time, Dr.

Kenny Cooper, strongly believed that the group homes were going to

continue to require more financial support than the Cooperative Program

was going to be able to provide and that’s why the Father’s Day offering

came to be. Turns out, Dr. Cooper was right.

Unfortunately, the Father’s Day offering has not grown in its 23-year

history to a level that can onset the deficits that are incurred in providing

this care. Brainerd-Chattanooga Campus, our support is more urgent

than ever, and it is imperative that we help Adult Homes reach its

statewide goal of $500,000 this year.