ARISE Collective
Haywood Christian Ministry’s ARISE Collective is a community of neighbors who believe that everyone deserves access to good food, stable and sufficient housing, and the opportunity to lead healthy and fulfilling lives! Members of the collective commit to a monthly donation of $15 or more to support. In return, these are the benefits of membership in HCM’s ARISE Collective:
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Members receive:
Free annual gift (t-shirt or 1lb of ARISE Coffee)
Monthly Members-Only email update
Invitation to an annual briefing
Periodic Community Thrift Store Discounts
Occasional Members Meet-Ups
Early notice of HCM events.
Membership in a community that is actively making a difference in Haywood County.
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Here is a sampling of what different membership levels achieve for our neighbors:
$15/month can cover one family’s visit to our pantry
$50/month can provide food to one family for an entire month.
$100/month helps provide case support to one family in need.
$250/month keeps one of our refrigerated lockers stocked, online, and serving our neighbors.
Access
In order for our communities to thrive, everyone needs equitable access. Access to food, resources, money, jobs, market, housing, etc. In everything we do, we will be asking: What does this person, family, businesses, or community need access to?
Resilience
Resiliency is the ability to face adversity and challenges and come out the better for it. Our families need resilience; our selves need resilience; our food system needs resilience; our communities need resilience. How can our programming build resilience, psychologically, physically, spiritually, economically, etc?
Inclusivity
Our communities do not foster true community until they are inclusive. Every program we devise will seek to be radically inclusive: poor and rich, rural and urban, gay and straight, black and white, citizen and immigrant, farmer and consumer, housed and unhoused, etc.
Sustainability
Our programs, our communities, our practices, our finances, and our environment all need to be sustainable. We will continually ask, does this plan or proposal promise sustainability to all it touches?
for Everyone
In order to provide Access, promote Resilience, Include everyone, and be Sustainable, Every individual will need different supports, interventions, and solutions. We will work to make sure that Everyone is able to ARISE.
About Haywood Christian Ministry
At HCM in the Smokies, we're tackling poverty in three unique ways—each aimed at addressing both the symptoms and the root causes.
HCM’s Smoky Mountain Harvest Hub
Addresses the stability and effectiveness of our local food system realizing that to have food secure families we need a stable local food system. The hub also strives to not only support our local farms, but to ensure that EVERY resident of our region has access to locally produced, healthy food.
HCM’s Haywood Commons
Located at 150 Branner Avenue, provides a one-stop location where our community can come together to access and provide the resources we all need the most. Our Community Thrift Store provides our community with reasonably priced clothing and household items, making basic necessities accessible to all. If you cannot afford our prices, you can visit our Somers Community Resource Center to receive vouchers for free items or find access to other community resources that may be of assistance. Our Community Food Pantry provides free, healthy food to our community, making sure that no one goes hungry!
Community Thrift Store - Canton
For the first time EVER, HCM is bringing it’s affordable community resources directly into Canton with the first ever Community Thrift Store. Located at 343 Main Street, HCM is bringing our resources and working to build community in Canton as well!
Rural Food Access Network
HCM is committed to the ideal that EVERYONE deserve access to good, healthy food, regardless where they live, what transportation they have access to, or their work or personal schedule. After Hurricane Helene, HCM launched the Rural Food Access Network. This is a collaborative effort between agencies, government, and the community at large to make food accessible everywhere. Currently we have 5 refrigerated food lockers stationed around the county, are working on developing and launching a mobile market, and working regularly with partner agencies to make sure no one is hungry.
