Food and personal supplies are donated and delivered by church members to the food bank on a weekly basis. This is a year-round project just as ‘hunger is a year round problem.’ 
  
During our monthly ‘Single Item’ drive, we encourage you to donate other needed items as well. Opportunities are also available for volunteers at the Paradise Valley Emergency Food Bank.

We have wooden bins to collect your offerings, which will be located on the patio in front of the sanctuary on Sunday mornings.

Team leader:

Pam Oliver  - LCdC representative on the PV Food Bank Board

Hungry?  Would a can of soup make your day?  I doubt it!  We live in a community that doesn’t think twice about spending $10 at McDonald’s or $100 at the market.  Yet, there are people in our community in NORTHEAST PHOENIX who can’t afford to feed their family soup!  We can make a difference in their lives.

Please remember the Paradise Valley Emergency Food Bank as you do your grocery shopping. There are fewer donation sources during the summer months – but the needs of the hungry do not diminish!  As always, all food staple items are gratefully accepted anytime, as well as Basha’s milk money certificates.

Transporting donated food for the Paradise Valley Food Bank.

10862 North 32ND STREET
(602) 867-9228

WHAT DOES THE VOLUNTEER JOB OF TRANSPORTING FOOD FROM LCDC TO PV EMERGENCY FOOD BANK ENTAIL?

Picking up food donated by LCdC members and delivering it to the food bank located at 10862 N. 32nd Street. The items are usually placed in the large wooden bins outside the entrance to the sanctuary each Sunday.

HOW OFTEN?

One for each week for the next year.

HOW MANY BOXES?

The amount varies from week to week and there are usually no boxes but many small bags.

WHEN ARE DELIVERIES DONE?

Deliveries are usually done weekly M-F between 9:00am-3:30pm. Volunteers make their own schedule. It is important, however, that the items are delivered weekly to avoid a heavy load for the person the following week. Help is available if need to off load the food at the food bank

APPROXIMATELY HOW MUCH TIME DOES THIS TAKE EACH WEEK?

It should take no more than 1 1/2 hour to pick up and deliver the items.

If you are interested and available to help, please sign up at the Information Table on Sunday.

 December 2007 Update

As the year draws to an end, I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for your continuing support of the Paradise Valley Emergency Food Bank.  Through monetary contributions and monthly food drives, you are our most reliable and generous benefactor.  I find the depth of your commitment extraordinary, because your community involvement is so widespread.  If one were to ask me for an explanation of this generosity, I would have to say that people of faith understand that the measure of our humanity is how we treat and care for the most vulnerable among us.  I wish you all a blessed and joyful New Year.  Sincerely,  Gail Marks, Director

August 2007 Update

Last year, La Casa de Cristo made a difference to the operation of the food bank because overall donations from the church were higher last year than in the past. PV Food Bank greatly appreciates La Casa's support because it is one of the most consistent sources of food that the bank receives throughout the year.

The food that we request is staples that are needed to fill food boxes on a daily basis and what the food bank needs most. This past spring the food bank was able to start a backpack program to feed needy school children in one PV elementary school due to a grant. The food bank is buying food with that grant money to fill backpacks for kids who are on the free breakfast and lunch program and the that the principal has identified as experiencing a need for food on the weekends. Now that those kids are able to bring home nutritious food on the weekends they don't come to school Monday mornings too hungry to learn! The current plan is to expand that program to another PV middle school this fall since there is enough grant money to do so!

If you are interested in learning more about where your food goes after you bring it to church, you can check out the PV Food Bank's web site at www.pvefb.org.