C4C is a partnership of people and projects dedicated to transforming the lives of children and their families through nutrition, education, provisions, and opportunity. To join the family of volunteers supporting C4C projects, please contact Elizabeth Devereaux for Reading Buddies and Mary Beth Tanner for the other projects at Central UMC’s C4C general contact email below. 

C4C partners with Emma Elementary School to help provide winter coats for children.

This year was was exceptional! After hearing about the winter coat drive Restoring Honor, a veterans support and advocacy group, was wanting to help children in Western North Carolina after the devastation of Hurricane Helene. They decided to meet ALL the needs of our winter coat drive and donated 56 news sets of coats, hats and gloves.  Read more about this on our blog by clicking the button below.

Contact Susan Robinson or Ann Henderson‐Owens for more information. 

C4C invites you to help provide Christmas gifts for local children living in foster care for the 6th year in a row! We are partnering with Black Mountain Children’s Home to sponsor gifts for 25 foster children. We will also be collecting gift cards to present to the hard working foster families that pour love into these children throughout the year. These families are grateful for the help creating memorable holi‐ days for the children placed with them. The online collection sign up is open to everyone, gifts need to be dropped off in the Fellowship Hall by Sunday, Dec. 3rd.

Contact Jill Dudley or Ann Henderson‐Owens with any questions. To learn more about the children, get all the details and sign up, click the button below. 

Food and grocery store gift cards are collected in November and early December for distribution in mid-December to local families in the Emma community through the Emma Resource Center.

The Reading Buddies Program is a partnership between volunteers, Emma Elementary School students, teachers and an on-site reading specialist. Students are matched with a volunteer in a supervised coaching and collaboration that provides support to young readers in grade levels K-4. The Book Barns are “drive by” small libraries in two locations on the Emma campus and provide bilingual reading materials for any Emma student to select a book.

School supplies are purchased, collected and provided in a resource cupboard at Emma Elementary School for students throughout the school year.