Local food pantries
All Saints Hunger Task Force helps to provide food and volunteers for the Lutheran Social Services Food Pantries and for the Worthington Food Pantry.
LSS Pantry volunteers
Upcoming dates
- Friday, Nov. 18
- Friday, Dec. 16
Donate
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Place food in the collection cart at the Lay Ministry Supply Room near the office.
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No opened boxes of food.
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Call Furniture Bank of Central Ohio at 614-272-9544 for home pick-up of furniture, appliances, and household items.
Most needed :
- Sugar-free items
- Low-sodium items
- Diapers, all sizes
- Toothpaste, brushes
- Coffee (small jars or 1- or 2-pound cans
- Powdered drink mix with sugar
- Tea bags, individually wrapped or small boxes
- Canned fruits and vegetables
- Jelly
- Pasta or rice side dishes
- Ketchup, mustard,
mayonnaise
For more information: Contact All Saints to be put in touch with coordinator Petey Ellinger.
Monetary donations: $24 will feed a family of four for three days. To donate to the food pantries or other LSS missions, click here or submit checks payable to All Saints Lutheran Church and indicate LSS Food Pantries in the memo line.
Produce for the Pantries: Results
“Hunger Spreads in Suburbia”
Columbus Dispatch front page headline Oct. 17, 2011
In September of this year, 820 persons, including 326 children, 49 seniors and 445 adults came through the Worthington Food Pantry. Hundreds more visited dozens of other pantries around the city.
All Saints’ members have responded in force by contributing fresh produce as part of our Hunger Task Force fresh produce initiative. Members stepped up this year to grow produce in their own gardens, purchase produce and help tend to the All Saints on-site gardens. These efforts resulted in HUNDREDS of pounds of fresh produce that were distributed at these local points of need:
- The Worthington Food Pantry, Clintonville Pantry, Epworth UMC Pantry, Karl Rd Pantry and the Salvation Army Sancus Blvd Pantry
- The Columbus Parks and Recreation summer lunch program
- A local factory that employs predominately single parents who strive to provide basics for their families
- Two HUD sponsored senior-living facilities in and near Worthington
Recipients appreciated the carrots, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, eggplants, beans, grapes, pears, celery, tomatoes and other fresh produce. .
Next time you bite into a fresh apple, smile and think of a child able to do the same because someone cared!
Betsy Rechel
All Saints Pantry Patch Coordinator
