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NORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY Contributions for the North Kingstown Food Pantry are collected at each Sunday Worship service at North Kingstown United Methodist Church. The Food Pantry serves 50 to 60 families each week. Non-perishable food items and cash donations accepted. Donations may be dropped at the NK UMC, 450 Boston Neck Road, North Kingstown, RI. Please call ahead (401-294-9293) to ensure the office is open and someone will be available to accept your donations.
Youth group plants a vegetable garden for the NK Food Pantry.
Related story: For The Hungry Every Day Is A Storm North Kingstown United Methodist Church is an active member of the Rhode Island community. The North Kingstown Food Pantry is located at our church. We support the Food Pantry's work of supplying groceries to families in our community. Try to remember non-food items that people need: Toilet paper, foil, plastic wrap and baggies, laundry soap, dish soap, body soap, shampoo, toothpaste.The Food Pantry serves 50-60 families per week. Please remember the Food Pantry when you shop, and be as generous as you can. Checks can be made out to N. Kingstown Food Pantry and placed in the offering plate. For The Hungry, Every Day Is A Stormy Day By Larry Price It’s another winter day, another snow storm is forecast and there’s another run on bread and milk at the supermarket. The sight of consumers scooping up bread and milk in anticipation of the ‘big’ storm used to be a Rhode Island phenomenon. No more. It’s happening from the Carolinas to Maine. Do we really like a sandwich and a glass of milk that much that we can’t do without them for a day or two? My family has fallen into the habit too. It wasn’t always that way. Growing up in Upstate New York, near Buffalo, we took storms in stride. I don’t recall the panic buying, the supermarket check-out lines down the aisles, and the search for an empty, unused shopping cart. I have a feeling much of it is due to the fact, we hear more about the approaching storm than we did years ago. Constant weather updates on TV and radio remind us that we might not be able to get to the store and we start to think, gee, I might not have that sandwich tomorrow. It occurs to me that for the hungry -- I mean the truly hungry -- every day must be a stormy day. The difference, of course, is the family that cannot afford to put enough food on the table doesn’t have the luxury of competing for the disappearing bread and milk at the supermarket. When you’re unemployed and can’t work for one reason or another, or if you find it difficult to stretch that paycheck for the essentials of life, you, no doubt, face a storm every day. I was unemployed for three months once and, believe me, that’s as close as I ever want to get to wondering where the next paycheck will come from. It’s been said most of us are only a few paychecks away from being hungry or homeless so we all really should care more and do more for those who are already there. Now that Christmas is a memory, fewer of us will think about the Food Pantry and the food kitchens. Fewer of us will realize that feeding the hungry is a year round job. Historically, donations drop off significantly after the spirit of the holidays has faded. I know I’m guilty of forgetting and I should do more than I do. Let’s pledge together that we’ll do more to make life less stormy for others. The next time we’re in the supermarket -- whether there’s a storm coming or not -- let’s pick up a few extras, a few non-perishable items, but instead of storing them in a cupboard, let’s drop them off at the Food Pantry in the church on a Sunday morning. Whether it’s winter or summer, there’s always another storm bearing down on a family somewhere in our community. And for that member of God’s family, a loaf of bread or gallon of milk really is important. (Checks can be made out to North Kingstown Food Pantry and placed in the offering plate or mail to: North Kingstown Food Pantry, C/O North Kingstown United Methodist Church, 450 Boston Neck Rd., North Kingstown, RI 02852) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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North Kingstown, RI United Methodist Church 450 Boston Neck Road (Route 1A) North Kingstown, Rhode Island 02852, United States of America TEL: 401-294-9293 |
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