Hello everyone, we want to keep you updated with the latest on how to connect, who to connect with and how to get help. Please see this information below. 

IF YOU…
WANT TO VOLUNTEER
Contact JEN FRASER: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / 828-273-2525
We need volunteers both locally and remotely. Please let us know if you are interested in helping in any way! Please be aware that we may not use you immediately. But as we get more organized we will be calling on you! We are keeping a careful record of everyone offering help and will reach back out as we travel the long road ahead.
WANT TO GIVE
MONEY
Give here: https://www.valleyhope.church/helene or contact LINDSEY BARNETT: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / (770) 882-6840
If you can help spread the word, our community will have a lot of needs in rebuilding ahead. People are looking for where to give - invite them to join us right here where we live and serve! It is a joy.
SUPPLIES
Contact AMY BERRY: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / 828-989-9666 (Note: We are currently full on most things!)
HAVE A NEED
Contact JEN FRASER: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / 828-273-2525

Supplies and Meals
We also are offering these services at our church building (115 Rockdale Ave, Swannanoa):
Monday - Friday 4-6pm
Hot Dinner, supplies, food pantry, water, baby supplies, wifi, charging station, toilet water, toiletries, Help with FEMA applications, 24/7 we have water containers for getting buckets of water for flushing.

Sunday @9am - Worship Service
@10:30-12pm - food pantry, water, baby supplies, wifi, charging station
If you cannot email or call, just show up at the church (115 Rockdale Ave, Swannanoa) from 9am-7pm Monday - Friday and someone will assist you with your need or will touch base with you on ways to give or serve.

If you need prayer, someone to talk to, wellness checks, or other questions, contact:
DANIEL LANCASTER: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / 910-622-7994

*Note: This is the plan until October 13th. We may change course after that.

Valley Hope-

I’ve felt recently, as an act of discipline, that I needed to be quicker to accept help. I tend to respond to any offer of help by saying “No I’m good.” But rather than just getting by, I need to be more willing to say “Ok thank you.” This is something on which God has been working with me.

And then Helene poured a billion gallons of water down our throats. Suddenly, it is quite a bit easier to say “Ok thank you.”

We have been inundated with supplies, offers of supplies, people just driving up with stuff. It is truly overwhelming. We are so so grateful for all that people have done and offered to do. Right now, if anyone could donate a large storage building, that may be highest on our wants list. Water would be number two. Seriously though, we've received a generous offer of portable storage containers so if you have either a building that could be used for storage or easily accessible land that we could put these portable storage containers on let us know at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Truly, though, we are so grateful. Help is coming from all directions. Please pray that we have wisdom to set up a long term way of managing all this aid. We know we won’t be on the news anymore sometime not too long from now. And all those businesses will still be ruined. So many houses will be feeling winter winds through holes and gashes. We will need that help for the long-term and we want to plan for that now. Again, please feel free to share our giving link: https://valleyhope.church/helene. This helps us continue to be able to get what we need down the line. One of our neighbors said “Asheville and Black Mountain will get all the help. Everyone always forgets Swannanoa.” We mean to show her that we will not forget.

If you are considering coming back soon, please be thinking about how you might spend your time serving. There will be 5,000 opportunities and I imagine they’re all fantastic. We will continue to do our best to serve people on Rockdale Ave and in Grovemont so that they continue to have food, water, sanitation, and any other essential needs fulfilled. Yesterday, we had help setting up two giant containers of creek water so our neighbors could more easily fill buckets for flushing toilets. Things like this will continue to be an issue for weeks and we could use your hands to continue to offer support to our side of the river.

Thanks so much for tracking with us and praying for us and touching base. We feel really supported and loved. Thank you. We can’t wait to see you all in person, handing out water, cultivating communities that live out the life-changing hope of Jesus.

Grace and peace,
Anthony

You can donate using the button above.  Further offers of help can be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Thank you SO much! We are overwhelmed by your kindness and generosity as we face the long road ahead of us.

Each day we are taking the supplies you have so generously sent and canvasing the neighborhood meeting the needs as we can of each person we connect with. We have a fair amount of supplies at the moment that we have stored off-site.  Each day we bring in what's needed to meet the needs in our immediate community.  So right now, any funds donated will be used to replinish those supplies when we are ready.  Your generosity is greatly appreciated and all of it will be used to help everyone we can in our neighborhood. We covet your prayers and appreciate any donations you make. Thank you thank you thank you!

Valley Hope-

Greetings from Day Whatever This Is. Things are definitely happening on the ground here in Swannanoa and we’re so grateful. I truly get choked up seeing line crews from all over the country. We so value their work. Black Mountain has seen loads of improvements. Swannanoa… we’ve got a long long way to go.

I’m so grateful for the ways some of our people have started showing up and extending hands to our neighbors. This is our goal right now: Serve Rockdale Ave. If we can get more, we will do more.

We would love for our building to be a place where people can regularly experience provisioning in a variety of ways. Food and especially water are so crucial. We have had people generously bring us SO MUCH. It would be helpful if folks would consider giving financially using the give now button above so we can distribute goods and services further down the line as needs continue to pray out. We will also run out of ways to store stuff! We would LOVE volunteers who would like to help us man charging stations or food handouts each day at the building. We are beginning to organize what that might look like, especially as communications improve and people return. Keep that in mind!

And please be ready. Be ready to look someone in the eye. Introduce yourself. Hear a name. Maybe remember it (I’m kidding… that’s apparently impossible for me. I’m so sorry). Ask them how they are. So many people can get reduced down to needs. And people are more than needs! They are people! Let’s keep acting as people of hope.

Thank you so much for praying for us and thinking of us. I miss you all. I can’t wait until we can get back to cultivating communities together that will live out the hope that can only be found in Jesus.

Grace and peace,
Anthony