• Hannah House www.hannahhousesc.com
  
  Hannah House provides shelter (41 bed facility) for oppressed women and
  children at 1726 Sumter Street (a few blocks from Palmetto Baptist
  Hospital.)
  
  There is a desperate need to help with homework for the children ranging
  from K5 through 8th grade from 2:30 and 6:00 PM five days a week.
  
  Toiletries and clothing and food items are always welcome.
  For more info, check out their web site or call Hannah House at
  803-771-4357.

• The Mission Society
  (Previously known as “The Mission Society for United Methodists”

  Mailing Address: c/o The Mission Society, P.O. Box 922637, Norcross, GA 30010
  Agency website: www.themissionsociety.org
  Agency other link: 1-800-478-8963

• General Board of Global Ministry of the United Methodist Church
  
  The United Methodist Church
  475 Riverside Drive - New York, New York 10115
  1-800-UMC-GBGM or 1-800-862-4246
  Email: info@gbgm-umc.org
  WEB SITE http://new.gbgm-umc.org/
  
  
• Children's Garden
  Located in the building of College Place UMC in Eau Claire, Children's
  Garden is a Volunteers of America service program that provides quality
  child development services for the children of homeless and needy families
  between the ages of six weeks and five years. Through out the week,
  Children's Garden is a loving home to these preschoolers- enabling their
  parents to concentrate on finding employment and/or housing. For more
  information, contact www.voacarolinas.org or call 803-779-6465.
  
  
• Sharing God's Love
  

  147 Friarsgate Blvd, Irmo, SC 29063
  803-732-3188

  This is an interdenominational ministry established in 1984 that provides
  food, clothing, and financial support to poor and struggling families of the
  Irmo community. Donations of food, clothing and financial gifts may be made
  Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon at the ministry center, 147 Friarsgate
  Blvd. in Irmo. Call (803) 732-3188.
  Ashland sends financial donations throughout the year, and collects food and
  clothing every Sunday.
  Drop off your food donations in the wicker baskets in the narthex or the
  back of Ashland Hall.
  For clothing, a large wooden box is located near the Communications Table.

  
  
• Home Works
  This is an interdenominational for youth and adults that provides home repair and renovation services to the poor and elderly in the Columbia area. Ashland is well known for Big Ron's Roofing Crew (Ron Trout is a member of the Home Works Steering Committee and has taught lots of our youth how to roof a house). Ashland provides a large number of volunteers on two weekends in October and April. Contact Ron Trout if you are interested. For more information see the Homeworks Web Page (www.homeworks-sc.org)
  
  
• Columbia Habitat for Humanity
  Habitat is an international Christian housing program which provides affordable, high quality homes, and low-interest financing to qualified families. Ashland provides financial support to the Columbia agency, and most years we have a volunteer group that works on the Columbia District of the UMC house.
  
  
• Seeds of Hope Farmer's Market
  On Saturday mornings during summer months (usually 8 a.m.-noon), the
  Friendship Class volunteers sell produce under the picnic shelter for our
  Saluda County farmer. The Market runs from early June until mid-August,
  depending on the summer rains.

• The Giving Tree During Advent
  Sponsored by the Missions Committee, persons take an ornament from the tree
  and purchase specified needed gifts for Epworth Children' and families
  through "Sharing God's Love" of Irmo. The gifts are returned to the Giving
  Tree on the 3rd Sunday in Advent and distributed the next week.

• Nancy K. Perry Children's Shelter
  (www.nkp4kids.org)
  
  Since its founding in 1972, the Nancy K. Perry Children's Shelter has provided safe harbor for thousands of children in Lexington County. Their stories are often horrific, most suffered abuse, neglect or abandonment at the hands of those whom they most truted.
  
  At Nancy Perry, they found shelter and more. A home environment filled with love, kindess, and gentle guidance. The security of a family like atmosphere, headed by houseparents who live in the facility. School, church, medical attention, counsling. These children need so much.
  
  For more information call them at 803-359-8595, or write them at PO Box 344
  Lexington, SC 29071
  Nancy K. Perry Children's Shelter is a 501c(3) non-profit organization.

• SisterCare
  
  Sistercare is a program of services for battered women and their children residing in Richland, Lexington, Fairfield, Newberry and Kershaw counties in South Carolina. The services include: 24-hour hotline, emergency shelter, community counseling services, legal advocacy, community education and awareness, medical crisis intervention services and follow up programs. For more information log onto www.sistercare.com.

• Killingsworth Home Ministry

  Killingsworth is a transition home for women who have experienced a crisis in their lives. In addition to room and board, it offers counseling, education, spiritual development, life-skills, and support through healthy interpersonal and a growing relationship with God.Killingsworth Home
  1831 Pendleton Street, Columbia, SC 29201
  803-771-6359
  www.killingworthhome.org

  Suggestions for classes to get involved
  1. Goody bags on holidays like Valentines Day, Easter, Christmas, etc.
  2. Adopt a bedroom. All the bedrooms regularly need refurbishing with
  paint, bedspreads, furniture, draperies, lamps, etc.
  3. Contributions of: rolls of quarters, telephone cards, Wal Mart gift
  cards, Stamps, bus tokens
  4. Any household items such as cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, etc.
  

• Oliver Gospel Mission
  
  Located at Taylor and Assembly Streets in Columbia, Oliver Gospel Mission has been serving "poor and neglected" people since 1889. Its mission is to glorify God and to evangelize and educate while providing food, shelter, and spiritual guidance to the poor and neglected.
  Every 5th Sunday, Ashland sponsors an Undie Sunday. The congregation is asked to bring men's socks and undergarments to church. Phone: 254-6470
  
  
• The Cooperative Ministry
  
  The Cooperative Ministry was founded in 1982 by the religious community of Columbia to respond to the needs of people in crisis. It is located at 3821 West Beltline Boulevard, Columbia. Services offered are: Emergency Assistance, Clothing and Furniture bank, C. A. R. Program, School Supply drive, Winter Shelter and more. For more info, call 803-799-3853 or see their web site at www.cooperativeministry.org

• Youth Hope Foundation
  
  The objective and purpose of Youth Hope Foundation is to assist and help the troubled youth within the State of South Carolina Heal, Overcome, and find Purpose by Encouraging a new life in Jesus Christ. Youth at the Department of Juvenile Justice often experience loss of loved-ones and friends, have a lack of positive role models, academic
  problems, and loss of dignity, to name a few.
  
  Youth Hope seeks persons to volunteer time by being a mentor, tutor, assisting with sports,etc. Also needed are persons to donate needed items or make a tax deductible donation.
  
  Youth Hope is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are tax deductible. Chaplain Yu-Fong Chong of Ashland is involved in this organization. For more information, contact: Susan Bowman P. O. Box 115 Chapin, SC 29036 or call her at 803-345-7430.

• Harvest Hope Food Bank (www.harvesthope.org)
  
  This non-profit organization began in 1981 with a mission to provide for the needs of hungry people by gathering and sharing quality food with dignity, compassion and education. This goal is accomplished by gathering, sorting, and distributing food and related products through a network of 350 local non-profit agencies and churches in 18 counties of South Carolina.
  
  Harvest Hope's headquarters are located in Columbia, SC (803-254-4432) and a branch warehouse is located in Florence, SC. According to the 2002-2003 annual audit 98.7 cents of every dollar donated to Harvest Hope goes directly to service.
  
  For every $1 donated, Harvest Hope can distribute 10.8 pounds of food. Each week Harvest Hope and its member agencies serve more than 59,000 hungry individuals. Of those individuals 51% report choosing between paying for utilities or paying for food and 28% report choosing between paying for medicine and medical care or paying for food.
  
  Please call them if you are interested in volunteering your time.