Articles of Incorporation

CHARTER OF CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES

The undersigned natural person, having the capacity to contract and acting as the incorporator of a corporation under the Tennessee Nonprofit Corporation Act, adopts the following Charter for such corporation:

ARTICLE I

The name of the corporation is CALVARY ROAD MINISTRIES

ARTICLE II

The Corporation is a public benefit corporation and is organized exclusively for religious and charitable purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and its Regulations as they now exist or as they may hereafter be amended (or the corresponding provision of any future United States internal revenue law and its regulations).

ARTICLE III

The street address, county, and zip code of the corporation’s initial registered office is:

5216 Fountain Gate Road
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee 37918

ARTICLE IV

The name of the corporation’s initial registered agent located at the corporation’s initial registered office is:

John L. Shepherd, Jr.

ARTICLE V

The name, address, and zip code of the incorporator is:

John L. Shepherd, Jr.
5216 Fountain Gate Road
Knoxville, Tennessee 37918

ARTICLE VI

The street address and zip code of the principal office of the corporation is:

5216 Fountain Gate Road
Knoxville, Tennessee 37918

ARTICLE VII

The corporation is a not-for-profit corporation.

ARTICLE VIII

The corporation shall have no members.

ARTICLE IX

No part of the income of the corporation shall inure to the benefit of, or be distributable to, its directors, officers, or other private persons, except that the corporation shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in Article VII hereof. No substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall be the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the corporation shall not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of these Articles, the corporation shall not conduct or carry on any other activities not permitted to be conducted or carried on:

1. by a corporation exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and its Regulations, as they now exist or as they may hereafter be amended (or the corresponding provision of any future United States internal revenue law and its regulations); or

2. by a corporation, contributions to which are deductible under Section 170(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and its Regulations, as they now exist or as they may hereafter be amended (or the corresponding provision of any future United States internal revenue law and its regulations).

ARTICLE X

Upon the dissolution of the corporation, the directors shall, after paying or making provision for payment of all of the liabilities of the corporation, dispose of all the assets of the corporation exclusively for the purposes of the corporation in such manner, or to such organization or organizations organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, religious, or scientific purposes as shall at the time qualify as an exempt organization or organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and its Regulations as they now exist or as they may hereafter be amended (or corresponding provisions of any future United States internal revenue law and its regulations), as the directors shall determine. Any such assets not so disposed of shall be disposed of by a court of appropriate jurisdiction of the county in which the principal office of the corporation is then located exclusively for such purposes or to such an organization or organizations, as said court shall determine, which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes.

ARTICLE XI

The directors of the corporation shall not be liable to the corporation or its members for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duty as directors, except, as otherwise provided under the provisions of Section 48-52-102(b)(3) of the Tennessee Code Annotated.

DATED: January 7, 1998