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Third Saturday of Every Month

Distribution Days

Our main distribution runs out of 669 Charity Road in Chester. Doors open at 9 AM, but volunteers arrive at 7 to unload, sort, and build the line.

Volunteers handing out groceries to families on a distribution day — A distribution morning at 669 Charity Road — more than 200 families move through the line in under four hours.

Family food boxes stacked and ready for distribution — Family food boxes staged and ready. Each $35 box carries a week of groceries for a household of four.

Fresh produce being sorted into crates — Produce rescued from partner farms is sorted and crated the night before distribution.

Mobile pantry van parked at a neighborhood stop — The mobile pantry sets up in rural neighborhoods where the nearest grocery store is fifteen minutes away.

Volunteer team gathered at the start of a distribution day — The 7 AM huddle. Assignments are handed out, coffee is poured, and nobody leaves until the last box is gone.

Six Ways We Feed Neighbors

Our Programs

Food boxes, hot meals, weekend backpacks, a mobile pantry, senior deliveries, and fresh produce — each one built around a different kind of need.

Contents of a family food box including grains, canned protein and produce — Family Food Boxes: shelf-stable staples, canned protein, peanut butter, and fresh produce in every box.

Neighbors sharing a hot meal at the community supper — The Wednesday Community Supper. A hot plate, a real table, and no ID, paperwork, or income check required.

Weekend backpacks filled with kid-friendly food — Weekend Backpacks: $8 fills one bag with kid-friendly food for a child who relies on school meals.

Groceries being delivered to a senior neighbor at home — Senior Grocery Delivery: two weeks of groceries and a friendly check-in for homebound neighbors.

Groceries being distributed from the mobile pantry van — Mobile Food Pantry: $60 stocks a single neighborhood stop with groceries for roughly a dozen households.

Volunteers sorting fresh fruit and vegetables — Fresh Produce Initiative: partnerships with local growers keep real fruit and vegetables in our distributions year-round.

45+ People Who Show Up

Our Volunteers

Church members, retirees, students earning service hours, and families who came for groceries and stayed to serve. None of them are paid. All of them are the reason this works.

Charity Food Ministry volunteer team posing together — Our volunteer team has contributed more than 6,800 hours since 2023 — packing, driving, cooking, and greeting.

Volunteer sorting produce into boxes — Sorting crews work the evening before each distribution so mornings run on schedule.

Volunteer greeting a family at the distribution table — The greeting table. Every neighbor is welcomed by name, and nobody is asked to prove need.

Volunteers serving plates at the community supper — Kitchen volunteers plate and serve roughly 150 hot meals each week at the community supper.

Volunteer delivering groceries to a senior neighbor's door — Delivery drivers cover the senior route on weekday mornings, often the only visit a neighbor gets that week.

Volunteers assembling weekend backpacks for children — Backpack night: volunteers assemble bags in an assembly line so school counselors can send them home Friday.

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Serving a warm plate to someone who is struggling is a reminder that dignity starts with the basics. Volunteering here lets you be part of that change.

Betty, volunteer since 2023

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