The Food Ministry is both the active outreach to the larger community through the Food Pantry and the Soup Kitchen but is also the support for our own members through grocery gift cards and fresh vegetable giving Sundays.
The Food Pantry has 30 volunteers who distribute food received from the Food Bank each first Friday of the month. We spent on the average $250 a month for 1,260 pounds of food which we distribute to an average of 31 households that represent 95 individuals. We spend $250 per month to buy toiletries and cleaning products. Each month we distributed food from the Food Bank as well as fresh vegetables from the gleanings of the Society of St. Andrew (with Liberty Powers help) and bakery items from Whole Foods (Caroline Heins work). We provided gift cards to Food Pantry clients in lieu of turkeys in November and December.
We also provide our ministers with gift cards for church members in need. These are distributed at Thanksgiving and Christmas and throughout the year.
The Soup Kitchen is an effort to feed lunch to those in need at the HAVEN every Sunday. The team leaders are Bonnie Hansen, Mark Foley, Elizabeth Breeden, Hannah Baran, Susan Kaufman and Nancy Hurrelbrink. Each team has about 10 members and we feed about 60 people each week. Team members provide food using their own contribution.
Soup Kitchen Volunteer Group Schedule 2026
The Food Ministry Social Action Collection Appeal also pays for supplies for feeding the guests of PACEM.
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