FOOD PANTRY: STP (Save The People)
The food pantry at West Side Methodist is open to the public Saturday from 9 to 12
If you are in need of assistance, call our office at the church, 973 398 0846, or stop at the church to speak with someone. Dick Hodson oversees the operation of the Food Pantry.
The food pantry cannot fund bills nor other financial needs but it can help by providing food.
West Side does have a fund to provide some assistance up to 100 or 150 dollars for those in need.
Please contact Pastor Jeong about that fund.
West Side does maintain a Thrift Shop on Sat morning from 9 to 12.
The food distributed by the church includes a box (usually a banana box) of non-perishable food, and usually a few baked items (baked items courtesy of B.J.s). Sometimes it has meat and/or ShopRite, but not on any regular bases.
In addition to the regular food distribution, major food distributions are made for Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Work done in the food distribution, both the weekly food distribution and the major distributions, -- obtaining the food and boxes, mailing, sorting and storing, everything required for this ministry,-- is performed by volunteers. The funding needed to do the work is supplied by the volunteers themselves.
NO ONE GETS PAID, NOR ARE THEY REIMBURSED. THE PANTRY IS NOT REIMBURSED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
