St. Paul's UMC & Preschool

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Outreach & Missions

St. Paul’s is dedicated to working in partnership with various organizations and individuals locally and internationally to offer support — financial, physical and spiritual. We strive to show the love of Christ, not only in our church and community, but throughout the world.

Local Outreach Affiliated with St. Paul’s

  • Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministries (ABCCM) – ABCCM is a non-profit organization whose goal is to reach out to the total person — to help that person begin to take charge of their own life and to solve their own problems. It is ABCCM’s goal to restore human dignity. St. Paul’s donates funds and food on a monthly basis. The ABCCM Shelter is always in need of volunteers.
  • Habitat For Humanity – Habitat for Humanity is an ecumenical housing ministry building houses in partnership with people in need. Habitat builds with volunteer labor, then sells the houses at no profit, through no-interest loans, to families who otherwise would be forced to live in substandard housing. Habitat offers a hand up, not a hand out.
  • Claxton Elementary School – Members support children at Claxton through providing school supplies.
  • Prayer Shawl Ministry – With loving prayers, shawls are made to comfort those who face illness, surgeries and/or hospitalization.  If you are interested in this caring ministry, please contact Sandra Crouch at (828) 298-3979.

International Outreach Affiliated with St. Paul’s

  • The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) – UMCOR is an arm of the United Methodist Church dedicated to alleviating human suffering around the world. It provides humanitarian relief when war, conflict or natural disasters disrupt life to such an extent communities are unable to recover on their own. UMCOR provides survivors with temporary relief and long term education, training and support. St. Paul’s members support UMCOR to help feed and clothe people who have experienced a national disaster, either nationally or internationally.  Our gifts have brought hope in places where despair and suffering are overwhelming. Through UMCOR we give very tangible evidence of our Christian compassion to the needy, feeding the hungry, transforming lives as we try to respond, to restore, and to rebuild their communities in an effort to carry forward Jesus Christ’s eternal message of hope!