Southland Faith Community Food Shelf-Adams, MN
posted on Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Our crew was excited to stop at a location that has never been apart of our annual effort to Haul Out Hunger: the Southland Faith Community Food Shelf in Adams, Minnesota!
"We are a collection of seven churches of varying denominations in the Southland School District," said Kathy Voigt, secretary at Little Cedar Lutheran Church, which houses the food shelf. "After realizing that there was a need for a food pantry or bank of some sort in the area, the community took it upon themselves to take action and here we are ten years later."
While the food shelf relies on some support from a large food bank in Rochester, most of their meat comes from local support. "We actually don't receive any of our meat from Rochester," explained Kathy. "Everything we receive is generously donated by community members. All of the pork and beef is from local farmers and now it looks like
the donations from local agriculture are going to continue with Iowa Select!"
Every other Monday the Southland Faith Community Food Shelf opens its doors to local families and even does some door-to-door deliveries for the elderly. Collectively, the food shelf reaches 42 families in the Southland School District. Unlike many other organizations, the food shelf puts together bags for their clients that contain items like cereal, peanut butter, pasta, canned goods, milk and meat.
"Believe it or not, most of our donations come from local groups," said Pastor Jeremy Johnson. "From the K-12 school kids to the post office and Boy Scout troupe, we are fortunate to have such strong support from our community. It's heartwarming to see how seriously the kids take it when they're collecting donations and when they show up here with the items that they've collected... the smiles on their faces are priceless."
Thank you to Kathy and Pastor Jeremy for opening your doors (and freezers!) for us today. We donated 60 pork loins for local families and are already looking forward to growing our partnership with the Southland Faith Community Food shelf in future!
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