Vase painting, movie night at Briceville Center
Solomon Harmon, Merelison Scarbrough and Charlotte Harmon enjoy painting vases at the Briceville Friendship Center’s May vase-painting event. (photo:Ben Pounds )
The bluegrass and gospel event will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 24.
Participants may bring an acoustic instrument to play or just come by and listen.
The center will serve light refreshments. The center is at 921 Andys Ridge Road in Briceville.
The center will also host the movie “Frozen” at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 30, with free refreshments. It plans to host a free family film each month.
On May 9, it hosted vase painting for Mother’s Day.
Amy Hall, the program director for the center, said while it gets some funding from the Tennessee Missions Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, the center’s events are for everyone.
“We are Christian-based, obviously, but I don’t want anybody to feel like they’d not be included,” she said. “We just want to provide that community with a lot of resources and help, whatever that looks like.”
She said she looks forward to churches and other groups holding events at the center. She said the center was “very vital for many years” before the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’re just having to start everything over again, from zero,” she said.
Programs likely to occur but without dates set yet include canning, cooking, cookie decorating and sewing, she said.
She hopes the center might hold meetings like Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and General Educational Development courses.
“Much more a community focused center where we’re giving the folks up there hands-on things to change the focus of their lives,” she said, regarding her goals for the center’s service to Briceville.
For more information, go to the center’s Facebook page or call 865-426-6518.
