St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
A Lutheran Community Committed to Jesus.
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Food Pantry

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September2017

Everyday NEEDS CHECK LIST

  • Soup

  • Egg noodles

  • Cereal

  • Muffin mix

  • Cake mixes

  • Icing

  • Sweet condensed milk

  • Pancake mix

  • Maple Syrup

  • Stuffing

  • Rice:

    • White

    • Brown

    • Instant

  • Flavored rice/Pasta & sauce

  • Condiments:

    • Salt/pepper

    • salad dressings

    • BBQ sauce

    • Pickles

  • Gravies

  • Flour

  • Sugar - white, brown

  • Household Cleaning including:

    • Glass cleaner

    • Laundry detergent

    • Toilet cleaner

    • All purpose cleaners

  • Paper Products

    • Towels

    • Napkins

    • Toilet Paper - individually wrapped

    • Tissues

  • Vegetarian Items

Looking Forward

Thanksgiving is approaching fast! We would like to invite you to share some of your favorite easy Thanksgiving recipes with us. We can print them and tuck them into our annual Thanksgiving bag pick-up.

If any of you have good ideas like this to open the hearts of those we assist monthly, please see Pastor or jot them down and leave them on the desk in the church office. Thank you, as always.

Erasing Hunger

A recent report reminded us all that even though our church is located in one of the most affluent counties in America, nearly 9% percent of the population experience food insecurity.

According to Feeding America, that amounts to over 81,000 people here in Bergen County that worry about their next meal. And sadly, a large percentage of these people are children.

St. Matthew's is working within our New Milford community to help combat this growing problem. Our food pantry is open to residents of New Milford. Your help - whether it is donating an item or two on our weekly list or donating money or supermarket gift cards - goes a long what to helping reduce the fear many who are hungry feel everyday.

To donate items, please stop by church, or even better, drop it off during one of our worship serves throughout the week. On this page you will find our weekly list of items that are needed in our pantry. These are items that we use each month and go through pretty quickly.

With great humility we thank you for your support. Continue to pray for this ministry so that it continues to grow and more people can be helped.

In back of our church, please continue to support our ministry by dropping change in the jar. Every penny dropped in our "Make a Change" donation container will go to put food on the tables of those in our community who are in need. 

 

Please check out this site for information on Global food insecurity.  http://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/Country