Welcome to The Tree House

Our Tree House Community Center is now up and running and we have already had some successful programs take place there. The Tree House Community Center is located on Arney Hill next to the Elizabethton Police Department’s police substation. The building had previously been occupied by a program from East Tennessee State University and following the vacating of the building by that program, the Elizabethton Housing Authority offered the space to our center at a cost of $1 per year including the utilities. We have turned the space into a community center through the generosity of several individuals who donated items for the center such as furniture, a big screen TV, a game table, an XBox and a GameCube. The Center features a game room as well as a music and art room. Desi Gentry of the Beck Mountain Corn Maze generously donated her artistic talent and painted all the murals on the walls of the Center. We held a Grand Opening for the Tree House the last weekend of May. Since its opening, local churches have been providing programs for the children. The Young Adults Ministry (YAMs) of First United Methodist came to the center and played ball with the children and Sunnyside Baptist Church of Kingsport brought their youth ministry program and did a puppet show at the Center. We currently man the Tree House on Tuesdays and Thursdays while the CHIPS program mans it on Wednesdays but the Center can be opened at any time for church or civic groups who want to put on programs or activities for the children in the community.