Kings Community Church Food Pantry
Written by ALASDAIR DUNCAN
The Food Centre, Kings Community Church has recently opened a Food Pantry which operates out of the Acacia room on Thursdays between the hours of 10:00am – 12:30pm. This is in addition to the free emergency provision that already operates on Mondays.
A Food Pantry is a community-based membership group where The Food Centre provides our customers with free fruit and vegetables and for a weekly charge of £5 the ability to independently pick 16 items of food from the Pantry.
This form of food provision means:
In the future the Food Centre Pantry, we hope, will build into a cherished role as a neighbourhood hub, and act as a springboard to other initiatives and ideas, such as cookery classes, volunteering opportunities, a warm space and hopefully eventually into a Wellbeing Centre.
Lastly and most importantly this allows us to become vessels for Gods heart for those in poverty - financially and emotionally.With this in mind, we really welcome prayer over our sessions with our customers. In practical terms donating financially to us on a regular basis will allow us to maintain this provision and regular food donations (see Newsletter or the website for needs) would literally be amazing.
GIVE, LOVE, REPEAT
A Food Pantry is a community-based membership group where The Food Centre provides our customers with free fruit and vegetables and for a weekly charge of £5 the ability to independently pick 16 items of food from the Pantry.
This form of food provision means:
- Kings Community Church can to be actively part of our local Community (Hedge End, West End, Botley and Boorley Green) It should be noted that last year over 85% of our customers came from this area already.
- Allows us to invite people to Alpha, Church and Chuckles, but also provide debt counselling, Social prescribers, Energy advice and access to our Parish Nursing team.
- Allows us to improve our customers health and wellbeing and help with their household finances.
- We can continue to prevent food waste.
In the future the Food Centre Pantry, we hope, will build into a cherished role as a neighbourhood hub, and act as a springboard to other initiatives and ideas, such as cookery classes, volunteering opportunities, a warm space and hopefully eventually into a Wellbeing Centre.
Lastly and most importantly this allows us to become vessels for Gods heart for those in poverty - financially and emotionally.With this in mind, we really welcome prayer over our sessions with our customers. In practical terms donating financially to us on a regular basis will allow us to maintain this provision and regular food donations (see Newsletter or the website for needs) would literally be amazing.
GIVE, LOVE, REPEAT