Ashe Outreach Ministries is based out of an old general store in the Clifton community. It also offers a food pantry, prepares meals to eat at the ministry on weekdays, sends groceries home on Fridays with schoolchildren and operates a "Soup for You" lunch on Saturdays in West Jefferson. The nondenominational ministry involves about 100 churches and more than 100 volunteers in sending out nearly 20,000 pounds of food a month.