HOLIDAY PANTRY CLOSING
The pantry will be closed: beginning December 24th and will reopen Jan 4th 2022!
Have a Happy and Safe New Year!
Thank You for your generous support in 2021! We appreciate everything our community does for our clients at the Christian Food Pantry.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
We will host a special food distribution beginning at 10 a.m.
in the parking lot of North Lake Presbyterian Church.
975 Rolling Acres Road
Lady Lake, FL 32159
This will be a drive up event only, for those local families in need within our service district area. We will be distributing food donated through Society of St. Andrew as a FARM SHARE event. This will be fruits and vegetables and other healthy food. You do not need to be a registered client to receive this assistance but must live in the local area and receiving SNAP, SSI, Medicaid or be Income Eligible.
Perhaps we can help.
If you live in:
Lady Lake, Florida
The Villages, Florida
Summerfield or Weirsdale, Florida (up to CR 42)
We serve clients on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. We don't take appointments. Simply bring a photo ID and a current utility bill showing your current address with you when you come to our pantry. Plan on spending about 20 minutes with us to get you signed up. Once qualified you may come to our pantry on a temporary basis twice each month for supplemental groceries.
Upcoming Special Food Distribution
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
We will host a special food distribution beginning at 10 a.m. This will be a drive up event only, for those local families in need within our service district area listed above. We will be distributing food donated through Society of St. Andrew. This will be fruits and vegetables and other healthy food. You do not need to be a registered client to receive this assistance.
Once again the pantry will provide traditional food items to our clients for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We begin distribution of these Holiday bags the lst of November. Below is a list of items we provide to each family.
The first quarter of the year is normally a slower pace for our food pantry. Many of our clients receive tax refunds and with stimulus checks and extra SNAP funds this has held true even during the current pandemic. The number of new clients from January to March was only 24 families. We assisted a total of 675 families during this time representing 1644 individuals.
We continue to support The Villages Elementary School by supplying 111 students with weekend snack packs each week. We will continue this support through the summer as well should the school offer a drive up lunch program as they did last summer.
Open to serve clients and receive donations
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Closed Holidays
2020 was definitely a year of challenges for everyone. While we did reduce our hours of operation, we were not forced to close during the year due to the pandemic. We were able to help just over 300 families a month along with providing The Villages Elementary School with 111 children with snack packs each week. We couldn't do this without your support.
We are so fortunate to live in a community where people truly care about one another. The Christian Food Pantry was blessed by so many individuals, clubs, churches, civic groups and the community as a whole who donated food and money. Many were very creative in their out reach. Some held driveway concerts and asked neighbors to donate food or money if they were able, others held monthly food collections on their streets for the panty, several donated all or part of their stimulus checks, one group even held a Santa Con to benefit our pantry. Without this support in addition to the financial support provided by North Lake Presbyterian Members the pantry could not provide the assistance needed to those local families who need our help. We cannot thank you enough and assure you that our clients appreciate the help given more than we can express.
In 2021 we are hoping to make some improvements to our pantry which will allow us to provide families with more fresh diary, produce and meat than we are able to provide now in addition to the non-perishable items we provide.
We wish you and yours a healthy and blessed New Year in 2021.
