Local Mission Partners

We are deeply invested in the local community and we encourage members to become involved where they are called. Much of our mission and outreach is through partnerships with local ministries and organizations. BMPC has a strong commitment — with our prayers, financial support, and members who are involved in the leadership and work of these organizations.

 
 

Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry

SVCM is a non-profit ministry that BMPC members helped organize in 1975 to address the immediate needs of the individuals in this community. BMPC members donate roughly 170 volunteer hours every month, and our congregation donates over 350 items of canned goods monthly, and over $10,000 annually to SVCM.

 

Bounty & Soul

Volunteers are the heartbeat of Bounty & Soul. Every week volunteers donate their time and talents to improve the health and well-being of fellow community members. They are responsible for loading and unloading trucks, displaying the bounty of food, helping participants select their food, assisting with educating on healthy ways to prepare the food, offering a hug or kind word to another…the list goes on. If you want to make a difference in someone’s life, or have questions about volunteer opportunities, Contact Karla at karla@bountyandsoul.org or sign up by Clicking Here. www.bountyandsoul.org

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Black Mountain Counseling Center

Black Mountain Counseling Center serves as a mental and spiritual health resource for the area and is supported by the ecumenical religious community as well as by civic and health care organizations. The center is open and serving clients virtually within the state’s Covid-19 guidelines at the present time. BMCC’s mission is to provide mental health counseling without regard to clients’ ability to pay. Services are provided by licensed, experienced counselors working with children, adults, and families within Western North Carolina.

 

Habitat for Humanity

We have a long and deep relationship with Habitat for Humanity working with them every summer to build a Habitat house in partnership with other Presbyterian Churches in the region. Here is a video from Habitat about Holly Brock, the future homeowner of the Presbyterian-Methodist House 28 in Curry Court.

 

Room In The Inn

Room In The Inn partners with local faith communities to provide shelter for up to 12 women each night. Each week, a different congregation opens its facilities to welcome the women as guests, offering a warm safe place for them as they work hard to move forward to permanent housing. The simple goal is to keep women without homes from sleeping on the street and risking their safety. The greater goal is to build loving relationships with them, one week at a time — this is when real ministry occurs. Room In The Inn is Homeward Bound’s most community-driven program, with more than 2,000 volunteers from over 40 faith congregations mobilized each year. BMPC hosts these women once a year.

 

Helpmate

Helpmate offers compassion for victims of domestic violence by providing safe, confidential shelter to women and children who are leaving dangerous and potentially lethal living situations. For over 30 years, Helpmate has been helping victims of domestic violence in Buncombe County. Helpmate is a primary provider of crisis services offered exclusively to victims of domestic violence in the Asheville area.

 

Ministry of Hope

Ministry of Hope is a community funded chaplaincy program which employs on-site chaplains at the Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women (SCCW). The chaplains conduct religious services and provide pastoral care and counseling to the inmates, many of whom struggle with addiction, abuse and grief issues. These women are within five years of release or parole. When the program began in 2007 the inmate population was 80, but now the potential population has grown to 454. Through the Ministry of Hope Chaplaincy program the women are offered a sense of hope. There are volunteer opportunities to work with the women in this program by contacting: Kitty Kelly — Chaplain’s Assistant Administrator, The Ministry of Hope. The chaplains are Rev Shannon Spencer and Rev. Chaplin Carol Dalton.

 

Black Mountain Home for Children, Youth and Families

We have volunteers who work in the study hall and in the garden. Last year the garden at the Home grew produce for donation as well as for campus meals. We also help to support a special academic incentive program that provides a special field trip for children who earn a required GPA at school.

 

Montreat Conference Center

For over 100 years, Montreat Conference Center has been a place set apart for those who journey here seeking a closer relationship with their Creator. The conference center is one of the largest affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), and is under the management of the Mountain Retreat Association, which formed in 1905 and is a church-related institute. Montreat annually hosts over 5,000 youth at our six Youth Conferences, offers over 40 conferences and programs year-round for individuals of all ages, and welcomes hundreds of church-related and non-profit guest groups who come to private retreats held at our center. Nestled in a peaceful mountain cove and surrounded by natural beauty, the conference center permanently protected 2,500 acres of pristine wilderness as a dedicated wilderness area registered in the NC Registry of National Heritage Areas, resulting in more than 40 miles of hiking trails for all to enjoy.

 

Hand in Hand

Hand in Hand raises funds and collects school-related items for students in the Swannanoa Valley. Their popular spaghetti dinners and hamburger/hot dog sales help ensure every child’s dignity by providing help for school lunches, fee-related activities, clothing and more.

 

ABCCM

Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry is a family of Christian congregations providing emergency assistance, temporary shelter, medical support and prison ministry to local residents.

 

Bread For The World

Every May we join with Bread For The World in writing letters to our elected officials to encourage them to protect state and national funding for food programs that help feed our brothers and sisters in this country and around the world.

For more information about any of these Mission Partners, please check out their websites or contact BMPC Outreach & Global Mission chair, Anne Drummond.