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If you've followed PACEM over the last six months then you know the extraordinary measures we've taken to keep our homeless guests sheltered. Six months is longer than our normal shelter season yet we are still providing a version of…

ORDER PACEM’s 12-month 2021 CALENDAR, featuring native birds of Albemarle County, Virginia, photographed by Henry Strauss. TO PURCHASE, please follow this link: https://pacemshelter.square.site/. All proceeds benefit PACEM Women's Shelter! "As Women’s Case Manager, it has been an honor to work…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Charlottesville Tomorrow) – For Jim Bourn, a man from Brighton, Michigan, experiencing homelessness, Charlottesville is something of a mystery. “I’m lost here,” he said. Every night from March 23 to June 3, though, Bourn had a familiar place…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - An organization providing shelter for people in the greater Charlottesville area is trying to expand its services for women with no place to go in the spring and summer months. People and Congregations Engaged in Ministries (PACEM)…

C-VILLE Weekly: Last August, Chinikqua Joseph’s Buckingham County home burned down. Thankfully, no one was injured or killed by the fire, but she, along with her mother and godmother, lost everything. They were homeless. While looking for housing, Joseph stayed…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- Two local homeless advocacy nonprofits are seeing some success housing homeless seniors. PACEM is working with the group AIM and the two have developed a program to help seniors get into an affordable housing situation. It's…

TOPICS INCLUDE: Life Inside Our Shelters as Captured by Photographer Mai Shurtleff, The Director’s Column, the 2018-19 Season By-the-Numbers, A Success Story Download:  Spring-Summer 2019 Newsletter

PACEM & ACE Contracting invite you to join us on April 28th for our annual Spring fundraiser.  This year’s event will once again be held at the exquisite Barn at Pea Ridge Farm located in Afton, VA. Tickets are $75…

For two weeks each January, Spring Hill Baptist Church in Ruckersville becomes home to 50 men who would otherwise be on the streets in sub-freezing temperatures. As a participant with People and Congregations Engaged in Ministry (PACEM), Spring Hill has…

Duner’s executive chef Laura Fonner has spearheaded a drive to provide chef-driven, home-cooked suppers for PACEM—an organization that provides cold-weather shelter for the homeless—each Tuesday throughout the winter months. She was inspired to take action after helping to serve at a PACEM…