Red Alert at Food Pantry

From the Amazing Grace Food Pantry

Dear friends of Amazing Grace,

Yikes!  We’ve weathered hurricane Irene, but it’s been pretty tough for many of us.  Hopefully your power has been restored and life is beginning to get back to normal.

What this emergency does, too, is to remind us once again how crucial good friends are.  Neighbors helping neighbors with food, water, a bed, a hot shower, and even a place to charge up electronics.

At Amazing Grace we face another emergency- a RED ALERT: we simply don’t have enough food to distribute to the 900+ households who come to the pantry every month to feed their families.  That’s about 100 more households each month this summer than in 2010, for a total of over 29,000 items of food given away EACH MONTH!  Many of our shelves are alarmingly bare.

So we turn to our friends - YOU - to help stock the shelves.

Many people and organizations have been incredibly generous this summer, and for this we are profoundly grateful.  But food supplies are dangerously low and some days we have had to scale back the number of items each family is allowed to select. 

So, in the midst of this natural emergency, please remember the RED ALERT at Amazing Grace and do whatever you can to help.

Please send on this notice to all your networks – at work, at your faith community, to your organizations and friends.  We appreciate all food donations – large and small.

Food can be delivered to Amazing Grace Food Pantry at 16 Stack Street in Middletown’s North End (on the street behind Macdonough School) from 10am – 5pm on Mon/Wed/Fri and on Saturdays from 9am – 1pm.  Call 860-347-3222 for more info.

            With heartfelt thanks,

            - all those who “shop” and the staff and volunteers at Amazing Grace