Illinois Food Pantry >> Rockford Food Assistance >> Emmanuel Lutheran Church - Food Pantry

  • Name: Emmanuel Lutheran Church - Food Pantry
  • Address: 920 Third Avenue
  • City: Rockford, IL 61104
  • Phone: 815.963.4815
  • Website: http://www.emmanuellutheranrockford.org/
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  • Description: Hours of operation: Every Monday: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Every Friday: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Numbers are handed out at 9:30 a.m., no earlier. Closed on Holidays. Identification is needed for everyone such as ID, driver's license, medical card, mail with name and address, etc. And, if possible, identification for children. Bathroom facilities available after the food pantry opens. The Food Pantry was started in 1977 and is located on Emmanuel's first floor in the Sunday School wing. It is open two mornings each week, and serves over 1,000 families in the Rockford area with emergency provisions each month. The need began to increase dramatically in recent years, so two years ago Emmanuel began hosting a special pantry offering at the worship service on the second Sunday of the month. This offering is in addition to our regular monetary offerings each Sunday. Parishioners pick slips of paper out of an offering tray, and we call this a reverse offering. The slips of paper have different foods and household goods typed on them. Each parishioner may take as many as he or she wishes. The chosen items are then brought back to the church on the third Sunday and placed in grocery carts that are stationed in the narthex. After all of the food and other items are collected, the (hopefully) brimming carts are brought—along with the monetary offerings—to the altar rail where they are blessed by the pastor.

Comment from clifford black: hi I was in Rockford for one month it was nice..i ran into trouble with cash during my short stay and you guys were kind enough from food bank to bring me some food to get me through a few days so would not go hungry. thank so much. I am ok now in ny and will make a decent donation to make up and support ur nice church but will have to wait until around may or june..so thanks, will get you about $100 at that time for you great assist and so to make sure you an help others thanks Rockford.. Clifford black, Rockford illinois

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