Serve with Asbury Church Missions

In Our Backyard:

Gardeners enjoy a long growing season in full sun plots, experience community with fellow enthusiasts, and, more importantly, donate at least 50% of their harvest to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and individuals/families in need.

The garden began in 2011 and has continued to thrive. More than fifty people are involved with the garden and have donated in excess of 7,500 pounds of vegetables to charities every year. The garden is harvested twice weekly by people leasing garden plots. Gardeners take joy in knowing that hungry families are enjoying fresh vegetables.

On Campus To Around the World

RAH is an international hunger relief organization that distributes food and life-changing aid to the world’s most vulnerable, mobilizing the necessary resources to end hunger by 2030. We host large meal-packing events regularly at Asbury Church - a great way to come together and have a global impact. We as a church have packaged over 1.2 Million Meals (and counting!!)

“And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.” ISAIAH 58:10

All these meals were purchased through your generous donations during Christmas is Not Your Birthday. This is the reason we do what we do. The reason we dig deeper into our pockets at Christmas to give a gift to Jesus. The reason we were created – to love our neighbor.

Supporting a Local School in Need:

Lion Pals: Serve in the school as tutors, test proctors, media center helpers, and more!

School Supply Drive: Donations help to keep our buddies at LRES equipped for learning!

Coats at Christmas: Donate coats to help keep the kids warm in the winter

Teacher Appreciation Luncheon: We look forward to giving the staff the best at this yearly event!

Campus Cleanup Day: We have volunteers come to make the campus look amazing!

Backpack Buddies: Asbury Church provides over 30 backpacks per week for food-insecure students at Lynn Road Elementary, ensuring that they will have good nutrition over the weekend. We are able to provide these through the generosity of "Christmas Is Not Your Birthday" and we regularly gather to package the bags.

Loving out refugee neighbors by Engaging, Equiping and Encouraging

Right in the middle of North Raleigh, there is a growing community , a door to the nations of the world. Many families have come from all over to reside in this place. Since 2007 we have counted it a privilege to serve this community with the love of Christ. We believe that every human being is created in God’s image. All people are created with inherent dignity, and have been blessed with unique gifts, talents, and resources for the service of God and others. In light of that fact, we commit to respecting the dignity and competence of everyone, and to supporting families as they continue to grow and flourish in a new environment. Our programs, activities, and relationships consciously avoid imposing our cultural standards on their lives, fostering patterns of dependence, or treating people as a means to the end of our own growth or achievement. We will respectfully and sacrificially walk alongside our neighbors as they grow in their relationship with God and others. We commit to proclaiming to Good News of Jesus Christ - who is the source and model of all true compassion.

Providing Homes in Our Community

Habitat for Humanity of Wake County builds safe, affordable houses for qualified home buyers regardless of race, religion or background. Each Habitat home is built in partnership with homeowner families, sponsors, and volunteers.

A coalition of 12 churches that join together to provide the financial support and labor to build a home for a deserving family each year. Asbury regularly provides monetary support as well as volunteer hours through Wake County Habitat for Humanity.

Asbury serves on 1st Saturdays and you can sign up online to join in.

“In obedience to the words of Christ to love our neighbors as ourselves, we partner with Haitians in the area of Gonaives, Haiti, giving care to children and families in need. Together we offer opportunities to develop physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually into mature Christian adults who can provide for themselves and their impoverished nation.”

Stan first visited Haiti in 1982 on a mission trip. He lived in Haiti for five years in the 80s. Even after moving to Raleigh in 1989, Stan continued visiting his Haitian friends most years. Stan and Patty met while she was in Haiti on a mission trip. Stan and Patty work together in the HHH office in Raleigh, serving as a liaison between their Haitian and North American neighbors. If you would like to know more about the Wiebe’s varied ministries in Haiti, visit their website www.heartsandhandsforhaiti.org.

Modern day slavery, or human trafficking, is more prevalent than many realize. Women and girls forced into commercial sex acts to the profit of a trafficker; men and children coerced into working in hazardous conditions under debt bondage and unfair wages… These are just a few examples of the different types of trafficking that exist in the world today. Currently, 49.6 million people are estimated to be living in modern-day slavery worldwide. AIM has been fighting trafficking for over 18 years. Agape International Mission or AIM seeks to put an end to sex trafficking (slavery) in Cambodia and Belize. AIM accomplishes this by these four ways: Rescue, Heal, Empower and protect.

Rescue: so far, AIM has rescued over 1600 survivors and assisted in the arrest of over 500 traffickers.

Heal: onced rescued the girls are healed through experiencing the relentless, unconditional love of Christ at their Restoration Homes. They stay with them as long as they need to feel empowered for a life of freedom and independence. Their social workers are available to them for further guidance, love, or support for the rest of their lives.

Empower: They empower survivors to live a life of freedom and protect their futures by providing safe and sustainable employment so they will never experience the horrors of exploitation ever again.

Protect: They prevent the exploitation of future generations by confronting the demand for purchased sex and protecting the vulnerable.