Ashville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry (ABCCM)

Mission: To provide individuals an opportunity to grow, mature and express their faith through fellowship and service for the joy set before us in Christ.

Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry (ABCCM) is a nonprofit organization working in Buncombe County to address poverty, hunger, homelessness, and health care access. ABCCM is a family of Christian congregations in the Asheville-Buncombe County area organized to respond to emergency assistance needs in the community. ABCCM aims to stimulate doing together what individual congregations cannot do separately. ABCCM is committed to cooperative action that ministers to the spiritual, social, physical, economic, and emotional needs of individuals in Buncombe County.

ABCCM provides numerous ministry services in the Buncombe County area, including:

• Crisis Ministry: Assistance for individuals and families living with limited incomes or financial emergencies, such as provision of food boxes, clothing, and rental and utility assistance.   
• Homeless Services: Two transitional housing facilities, the Veterans Restoration Quarters for men and Transformation Village for women and children, both providing housing, food, case management, education, and connection to mental and physical health providers. 
• Medical Ministry: Provision of urgent care, medication assistance, and crisis dental care to adults in Buncombe County. 
• Veterans Services of the Carolinas: Services for veterans and their families, including outreach to homeless veterans, rapid rehousing and homelessness prevention services, employment and training support, and service coordination. 
• Jail Ministry: Supports to prisoners at the Buncombe County Detention Center to help them prepare to re-enter the community responsibly. 
• Transformation Village: An initiative to better serve women, children, and men who are homeless, including housing units, dining facilities, a community center, childrens’ education and play areas, job training center, and a medical clinic.