To our donors: financial, product inventory and supplies donations, shared resources, THANK YOU for your generosity, prayers, and other support throughout the year supporting our You Feed Them Missional Food Pantry including our Initiatives: Back-to-School Community Resource Day, Youth Savings, and our Christmas Overflow.
2023 we served: 941 recipients of which 258 were first-time clients, overall impacting 4,616 fed! As Kingdom Builders there were 62 Salvations, 1 Baptized, and 8 Re-dedications! We shared over 10,700 bags of groceries, toiletries, and much more!
For our 6th Annual Community Resource Day & Shoe Drive Initiative: 449 children were registered for supply-filled book bags, elementary interactive learning books, prizes such as bicycles, raffle gift baskets, community resources, some with new shoes, fun, and much more. There were 21 Community resource providers present to share opportunities and more. Pacers Boomer and Freddy Fever were a hit. Six years, still making a difference for families!
Our Youth Savings Initiative’s mission is to help reduce the need for future food pantry and social services by teaching and practicing saving, self-investing, today by children ages 0-17 years of age.
Our Pantry’s Christmas Overflow Initiative, responding to families expressing an emergent request for assistance after either missing other organization's registration deadlines or not qualifying. Due to minimum funding: we blessed 57 children representing 23 households with Christmas gifts of toys, books, clothing, gift cards, and food.
Blessings Bags: in partnership with other churches, 245 drawstring bags and large purses filled with necessity supplies for our homeless neighbors have been distributed.
Smaller food pantries consistently receive less substantial financial considerations than the larger food pantries. No matter the size, operating our Food Pantry effectively and efficiently is not free especially one missionally-focused with initiatives such as ours. In 2023, we had to increase our purchasing of food, toiletries, and supplies. These expenses exclude our broader Community Initiatives that carry financial needs as well.
This year, March 2024, we celebrate our 7th year anniversary serving!! Over 25,000 lives impacted, excluding our initiatives. Help us make this year the best year yet, your continued partnership, prayers, and donations will help make that happen!
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From the menu, go to Support Us. Donation options remain the same:
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Checks must be payable to: You Feed Them MFP
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Electronically, PayPal, Givelify, CashApp, Zelle: “You Feed Them MFP” or use our email address.
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"Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the same measure you use, it will be measured to you." Luke 6:38
On behalf of those that we serve and our Board of Directors, THANK YOU for your generosity!
Bless you,
Minister Lydia L. Davis, Founder/President