Thanksgiving Worship and Community Luncheon – Please mark your calendars to join us for Thanksgiving worship on Wednesday, Nov 25 at Noon or at 6:30pm. We have our annual luncheon at 1:00pm. If you would like to assist with set-up, cooking (we have a set menu), donating a turkey, roasting a turkey, making a dessert …
Thursdays from 9:00am to 1:00pm – We are very much in need of food and financial donations at this time. For financial donations – mark check or envelope Food Pantry or use the Care Square icon! For food donations we need peanut butter and jellies – all sizes, all kinds, all types of canned items …
Shepherd Shelves Update – we are making a change to our service hours – Beginning July 30, we will modify our pantry hours to Thursdays only, 9am to 1pm. Since opening in September 2025, we have made several changes based on the needs of the community, the availability of donations and the availability of volunteers. …
Volunteers Needed Saturday, May 9th from 2 to 5pm – Our Shepherd’s Shelves Food Pantry is blessed to be a part of the May 9th Postal Workers’ Food Drive where all residents are asked to leave non-perishable donations at their mailbox. We will receive all donations for an entire zip code!! We are seeking several …
The pantry is open Sundays and Thursdays 10am to 1pm and serves between 25 and 35 people each day on average. To sustain support for volume of food needed, we currently receive resources in several ways: We are grateful for your ongoing support. Food donations can be left on the shelves in the Gathering Area. …
Join us on February 8th for the SouperBowl of Caring! This is a weekend set aside for the nation’s Youth to collect loose change after worship services. 100% of funds stay local to support hunger initiatives right in our community. You are encouraged to bring in your loose change and place in the soup pots …
Shepherd’s Shelves Celebration Weekend – February 7th & 8th – It seems like just a few weeks ago that we launched our community food pantry, but it has been almost five months!! We are now seeing 30+ visitors each time we open which means we are assisting 300+ individuals each week when you consider other …
January has been Disaster Relief Awareness Month– All month, we worked towards our goal of providing the NALC Disaster Relief team with items for their warehouses. Today we will be praying over and blessing the beautiful handmade quilts, baby blankets, baby care items, Bibles, and full-size blankets that will be going to a regional Disaster …
The pantry is open Tuesdays & Fridays from 11am to 1pm and Sundays, Noon to 2pm. Volunteers staff Shepherd Shelves and we invite you to be a part of this ministry. If you would like to volunteer one or more times per month, please indicate this on the yellow Connect Card or contact the church …
Please be on the lookout for opportunities to be a part of a food drive. Perhaps your place of employment, your homeowners’ association or apartment complex, your book club or an athletic team you are connected to would consider hosting a food drive for our Shepherd’s Shelves food pantry. We would be happy to provide …
The pantry is open Tuesdays & Fridays from 11am to 1pm and Sundays, Noon to 2pm. Volunteers staff Shepherd Shelves and we welcome donations of food items as well as financial support. When writing checks please note “food pantry” or “Shepherd Shelves” on the memo line. The Care Square has a specific Shepherd Shelves icon …
We have seen many new faces since expanding this ministry and creating set days & hours. If you know of someone in need of support, please invite them to stop in. We keep shelf-stable items as well as frozen meats, veggies, prepared meals, etc. We occasionally receive produce and cold items from another food pantry. …
Many thanks to all who have graciously responded to the invitation to serve. We continue to organize ourselves and have scheduled three 30-minute training sessions – we hope you can make one of these informational meetings. If not, we can meet with you one-on-one. We will meet at the entrance to the new space. Training …
Join us for the Shepherd’s Shelves Open House Saturday, September 13 (6:30pm – 7:00pm) Sunday, September 14 (9:30am – Noon) The Shepherd’s Shelves is a ministry of Shepherd of the Woods that extends Christ’s love and care by providing food to those who are hungry. Since 2022 you have generously donated and provided over 21,00 …