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C.R.O.S. Ministries - West Palm Beach Food Pantry at Urban League Community Service Center West Palm Beach, FL 33407 561.233.9009	Details: C.R.O.S. Ministries Community Food Pantries: Non-perishable food items are collected by congregations, groups, and individuals throughout Palm Beach County and taken to the closest pantry. In 2012, 46,770 people received emergency food, nearly half of them children. Volunteers are needed at the pantries Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., to sort and shelve food, to pack and distribute food bags, to pick-up food. Congregations and community groups are needed to collect food. Each bag of food distributed from the pantries contains a slip of paper which reads: "This is a gift of God's love from local churches and synagogues. The food pantry is a ministry of C.R.O.S. Ministries." Clients may go directly to the nearest food pantry to receive emergency food assistance if they have not visited the pantry in the past two months. For persons visiting the food pantries from families of four or less, bring photo identification for the person vising the pantry. For persons of families of five or more, bring photo identification for the person visiting the food pantry and some form of identification for all other family members. West Palm Beach Food Pantry Hours: Friday 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Extended Hands Community Outreach, Inc. - Hands Of Love Food/Nutrition Program West Palm Beach, FL 33407 561.315.5463	Details: Hunger and poor nutrition are serious problems within the communities served by Extended Hands Community Outreach. Over 80% of the families we help subsist at or below the Federal Poverty Line. Extended Hands provides over 25,000 meals, bags of non-perishable food items and other food supplementation annually through our Hands of Love Food program. Food Bank: Bags of non-perishable food items, perishable meats and fish, bread and fresh vegetables are available on a monthly basis. This food is available to anyone unable to provide adequate food for themselves or their families. Food Bank Available Thursdays from 9:00 am - 11:00 am (or until supplies last). Emergency food pick up by appointment only. Hot Meals: Hot Meals: Nutritious, hot meals are served 3 days a week on-site at Extended Hands Community Outreach. These meals provide not only a sustaining meal for hungry families, but also a time when residents can socialize and learn about essential social services that may be available to them. Extended Hands provides breakfast from 9:30 a.m.-11 a.m, Wednesday and Friday. Lunch is provided on Thursday from 12 noon -1:30 p.m. All meals are provided at no cost. Hands of Love Health Fair: Guest speakers from partnering healthcare agencies speak to guests about Nutrition and Health education. screening services aRE provided by HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND other nonprofit organizations . Health fairs are held at various times through the year, see calendar for next scheduled event.
St. Ann Place West Palm Beach, FL 33407 561.805.7708	Details: St. Ann Place is the Church's outreach center for services to homeless women and men. Its mission is to witness Gospel values by providing a comfortable, clean, safe place where clients receive services in a dignified and respectful manner regardless of race, religion, or gender. Food Program: The food program is available Monday - Friday. Breakfast is served daily from 8:00 â€“ 9:00 AM. Coffee, breakfast pastries, fresh fruit and cereal are served. Lunch is served from 10:00 to 11:30 AM. A to go bag is provided that includes a meat and cheese sandwich, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, crackers/chips and juice drink. Pastries are also provided upon request.
First Presbyterian Church of West Palm Beach - Monday Night Meal Ministry West Palm Beach, FL 33401 561.655.1707	Details: The centerpiece of our outreach missions remains our Monday Night Meal Ministry. This ministry is now in its 12th year of serving those in need through an encounter with the love of God. Currently, volunteers from various area churches are successfully feeding over 100 guests at 5:00 p.m. every Monday night. A time of devotion led by Pastor Shirley occurs just before the meal and the volunteers also have a time of devotion. So our guests; both homeless and those in need, along with our volunteers, are being fed both nutritionally and spiritually!
Feed the Hungry at Village Baptist Church West Palm Beach, FL 33407 561.398.2828	Details: In 1987 Dan and Jacquie Shorter began a small Christmas ministry at Belvedere Baptist Church. They fed 40 families that first year. Within a few years, they were helping several hundred people with food primarily at Thanksgiving and Christmas and during emergencies, too. In 1995 they moved to what is now Village Baptist Church and expanded to include a monthly feeding for the most needy of those helped at the holidays plus emergencies and referrals.ï»¿ We serve people throughout the county mainly from Lake Worth through Riviera Beach and out to Belle Glade. About 32% are Haitian, 28% Hispanic, 30% African-American and 10% Caucasian. Thereâ€™s no full-time paid staff. For warehouse work, we employee a few part-timers. Hundreds of people volunteer to help from qualifying applicants to delivering food to sorting to making reminder calls. We also mentor dozens of smaller, mostly ethnic churches that are better able to reach the poor, especially in the Haitian and Hispanic communities. Feed the Hungry coordinates with other agencies to stop duplication and regularly provides our families with information about other agencies.
Feeding South Florida - Palm Beach County Warehouse West Palm Beach, FL 33401 561.659.5070	Details: Feeding South Floridaâ€™s mission is to end hunger in South Florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.