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Food Pantry Needs
Summer months tend to see a decline in food donations to the food pantry. The pandemic and unemployment has also increased the need, so if you can give to the pantry during August, please bring your items or monetary contributions to the church. Our target items are canned beans (not green beans) and Jell-o.
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Food Pantry Needs
Great job! We delivered 127 items to the DeSoto Food Pantry! This included all your contributions from the last couple of months, but it was still an impressive amount of items. We’re still looking for canned potatoes and canned beans (not to be confused with canned green beans). You can still bring these into the…
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Food Pantry Needs
The church is seeking a volunteer to deliver food items to the food pantry. This should be done on a monthly basis, and delivery must be coordinated with Mildred. Someone who is able to simply load up the donated items, count them, and get them to the pantry is what is needed. If you are…
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Think Red
February is American Heart Month, and you’ll need to keep that in mind for our February food pantry items. We’ll be collecting items that are red or that are good for your heart. Things you might consider adding to your grocery list are: tomato paste tomato sauce canned spaghetti (without meat) stewed tomatoes oatmeal heart-healthy,…
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Food Pantry Christmas Boxes
We normally do sugar for the pantry’s Christmas boxes, but we’re bucking the trend this year. The pantry changed the menu, and we’re responsible for cake mixes and containers of frosting. We are to provide 33 cake mixes and 33 containers of frosting. We need all of these to the church before December 9th! Ms.…
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Food Pantry Needs
Before the food distribution on September 14th, the DeSoto Food Pantry purchased non-green bean and non-corn because they didn’t have enough canned vegetables. This means we need to get them peas, carrots, hominy, sweet potatoes, or regular potatoes during October! This will help them keep costs down and provide a variety of goods for those…
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Food Pantry Needs
The food pantry still needs canned potatoes. You have three good options for this: whole, sliced, and sweet. They have plenty of green beans, corn, and peas, so please opt for canned potatoes during September!
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Vacation Style with the Food Pantry
It is that time again when you just never know who you’ll see (or not see) at church. We call this season: vacation! Many families are packing up suitcases, crates, and bags for vacations and weekend getaways. Please remember that the food pantry still needs food donations at this time of year. As an easy…
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Food Pantry Needs
The food pantry has three main needs during June. Mildred said they need: canned fruit canned pasta without meat jell-o (Yes, more of it!)
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Food Pantry Items
This year, we’ve donated 271 regular items to the DeSoto Food Pantry. We’ve also delivered 33 boxed cake mixes for their Easter distribution. That’s over 300 items in just four months. There are also items in the hall that haven’t been taken to the pantry yet. Since we’re doing so well, let’s try something for…