Saving Grace is on mission to support women in need
“Our mission is to help women out of abuse, addiction, homelessness and any kind of other issues,” said Brandy Pearson, intake coordinator for Saving Grace’s Tennessee location.
She explained it is a free, 12-month discipleship program.
“Saving Grace is a faith-based (501(c)3 organization,” Pearson said. “We teach and preach the word of Jesus Christ. It’s all about God and where He has brought us. He’s the one who brings us out of these messes that we get ourselves in.”
According to its website, its purpose is to “provide women with an effective and comprehensive Christian faith-based solution to life-controlling problems.
“By applying biblical principals, it is our belief that people with life-controlling addictions can become mentally sound, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well and spiritually alive,” it stated.
“To keep it free and funded, we fundraise,” she said. “We make these wood plaques —all kinds of different ones — we make goat milk soap, soy candles and other items to sell.
To find out more about Saving Grace and its products, visit savinggracewh.com or call 865-368-9547.
“We don’t charge the ladies anything, no monthly fee,” Pearson said. “We cover everything, whether it’s food, hygiene items — if they don’t have families to help with those kind of things.
“We get a lot of donations from people,” she said. One example of that support is an organization called Bags of Hope “and they recently gave us all kinds of things.”
Saving Grace was founded in 2015 in Houston, Texas, and expanded to other operations, such as Knoxville, which started in 2022.
Previously located in Teen Challenge, “Saving Grace took over this location about four years ago,” Pearson said.
“We don’t put our address out there because we do have women coming out of abuse and addiction,” she said. “We are in a regular house in a regular neighborhood.
To raise funds, “on Thursdays, we do what we call Business to Business,” Pearson said. “We pick a city, we get what we can carry out of our car, show up to different businesses, let people know about the program, first of all, but also see if they want to buy any of our items.
Additionally, “we sit up a table outside of (a department store) with all of our items, and we sell them that way,” she said.
