Food Pantry News

The P G Food Pantry needs your help with more food! We especially need canned milk, canned vegetables (green beans, corn, & fruit), peanut butter, jello, canned meat, spaghetti & sauce, macaroni & cheese, pancake mix, cereal, diapers, mashed potatoes, crackers, pop tarts and canned or fresh fruit..  We have a lot of requests for toilet tissue, soap, shampoo – things we take for granted every day – until we have none.
We would like to thank everyone for their support for the pantry.   December was a big month with Christmas added in too.  The holidays are over now,  but the need is still there.
We helped 107 families (a total of 340 people) in the month of December, depleting our supplies each week.
In your daily routine, talk to people about our Food Pantry.  Let them know how many people we help in our neighborhood, but also let them know our pantry needs help stocking it each week.  You never know when something you say will touch someone’s heart  One of the Pantry Volunteers  was at the grocery store buying cases of food to restock with, when the lady behind him struck up a conversation about why he was buying so many groceries.  He proceeded to tell her about our Food Pantry Ministry.  When he had checked out and started to leave, the lady 2 spaces behind him in line stopped him.  She had overheard their conversation and handed him a cash donation so she could help.
During December,  a small business put pantry donation boxes in their office and donated  it to our Food Pantry.  This was done because one of her customers (a member of our church) had talked to her about our pantry.  Another person (Not a member of our church) talked about the works the Food Pantry is doing to a member of her family and every 2 or 3 weeks he will send some food for the Pantry.  Again, thank your for support of this ministry.
If everyone that attends church on Sundays would bring just 1 can, imagine just how much food we would collect in one month’s time!!! This way it would not be a hardship on anyone.