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The Food Pantry
•WHAT IT IS: Located in the church basement next to the youth room, the Food Pantry provides a three-day emergency supply of food to families in need who live in Wendell. We also work with the Social Services office at the Eastern Regional Center in Zebulon and will help any family referred to us by them, regardless of where they live.
We are a partner agency of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC, which means we can shop at their warehouse and get many items free or at a shared maintenance fee of just $.18 per pound. The pantry is open Tuesdays from 5-7 PM, Thursdays from 9-10:30 AM, and the last Saturday of the month from 10AM-noon. Check us out at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WendellUMC_Food_Pantry/
HOW YOU CAN HELP: Be a food pantry volunteer! Volunteers work in pairs, doing the required paperwork and bagging up groceries for families. We’d like to expand our hours, but first we need more people willing to be trained and commit to a time slot each month. Organize a food drive where you work or in the community at large. Save and bring us your paper (not plastic) grocery store bags with handles, like Lowes Foods uses.
The first Sunday of each month is Food Pantry Sunday, and while donations are certainly welcome at ANY time, the congregation is specially encouraged on this day each month to bring in food … or … to donate money or grocery store gift cards and let us do the shopping. There is a list of needed food items posted on the pantry door.
(NOTE: If you put a check in the offering plate made out to WUMC and in the lower left corner specify “food pantry”, the amount will be recorded on your annual church giving record and the money used to purchase food for the pantry. Money you spend on gift cards does not “go through the church bank accounts” and therefore is not recorded on your giving record).
•WHO TO CONTACT: Debbie Merritt
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