Papa Joe Bradford and his wife, Denise, are an incredible father and mother in our city and we are blessed to have them as a part of our Grace Center family! Their ministry, Elijah’s Heart, is serving hundreds of children, parents and area homeless in Nashville’s largest and most impoverished inner-city community this Christmas.

This year they are opening a Christmas store for parents in the J.C. Napier community to shop for gifts for their children on December 16. Grace Kids and the Grace Center Missions Team are teaming up to help collect toys to stock the store! You can drop off your donations of unwrapped toys in the box in the Grace Kids wing on December 9.

To read Papa Joe’s gift guidelines, click here. If you are interested in volunteering in the Christmas Store, email missions@gracecenter.us. Thank you for blessing families in our city!