Hope Church West Nashville

Hope West Nashville Church, a non-denomnational church in Nashville.
4905 Tennessee Ave,
Nashville, TN 37209

Service Time: Sunday 10am

Hope West Nashville Church services both the Gospel and coffee drinkers with excellence. The church is located in West Nashville in the Nations Neighborhood. Hospitality is remarkably strong at this church along with coffee. Everything is easy starting with parking.

Parking is located at the building. The parking lot is good size and once out of your car, entry is intuitive. There’s no hint of the coffee to come until you get inside.

Once inside, there’s a good amount of seating plus to the back there is coffee. Coffee is permitted in the sanctuary which is where the coffee itself is located. There’s plenty of cups and coffee supplies at the station. It was very welcoming at this non-denomnational church in Nashville.

I was greeted and welcomed a few times but with a pleasant conversation as well. The people I spoke to were very interested in carrying on a full conversation, not just a drive-by new visitor meet and greet. This is something I have not really encountered on the church tour. It’s either no greeting or greeting to the point where you feel like a ‘tickle-me-elmo’. Being asked questions and then being given time to answer was something I was not used to as a first time visitor during the church tour.

The worship set was smooth with words available on the screen. It was a small but very efficient worship team. Sound and words were run in a booth in the back well out of sight to the average parishioner which was good doing transitions. The first transition was to communion.

Communion was well executed. Instructions were given and the elements were available up front. Most congregants seemed to know the flow and I was astonished to see real bread. Real bread to me is a luxury that went by-way-of-the-pandemic. The communion sacrament was not rushed and pleasantly flowed with the rest of the service.

Transitioning to the rest of the service was a well delivered message. The message, a call for community participation in a tutor / reading program, and dismissal was all fairly smooth as was exiting.  

Overall Hope West Nashville, a non-denomnational church in Nashville, had a community feel with the freedom of coffee. The freedom to get coffee anytime during the service and drink it in the sanctuary really led to an informal feel that probably contributes to the success of this community church.

Update: I could park here for a while but for the extent of the church tour, I want to keep things moving and keep to 1 visit per church through the end of the year.