In April, the First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown Food Pantry made the transition from “Partial Choice” (where a client received pre-packed bags of a nutritionally balanced mix of non-perishable...
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A Special Gift from the Children of the Islamic Center for our Food Pantry
Our Food Pantry gets a significant amount of food donations from schools and other groups. This donation came from the children at the Islamic Center in Mohegan Lake. They have made contributions before...
Rolling out a New Model for the Food Pantry
Food Pantry – Full Choice Informational Meeting February 26th at Noon For nearly thirty years, the FPCY Deacons have been providing food to the needy through a “Partial Choice”...
Want to Learn More about the FPCY Food Pantry?
For over 30 years, the FPCY Food Pantry has been serving the less fortunate of our community. And as with many things, it started small. As a matter of fact, it was a closet. The Deacons had been reactivated...
Thanksgiving Turkeys for the Food Pantry! And a Special Offer from ACME
The Food Pantry appreciates gifts of turkeys for our clients’ Thanksgiving dinners. They can be dropped off on Saturday, November 19 at the back door to Room 16 (cemetery side) any time between...
Walmart $750 Grant for Food Pantry Diapers
Great News! The Mohegan Lake Walmart (Store Manager Mike Weldon) has selected our Diaper Ministry to receive a $750.00 grant. The Deacon Diaper Ministry is an initiative to help the youngest in our...
School Supplies for Food Pantry Kids
The Deacons are now collecting the following for the School Supplies Ministry: 3 Ring Binders, Pencil Cases Filler paper, pocket folders Pencils, pens, highlighters, Composition books Look for a collection...
Deacons’ Corner May 2016 — And news about the Food Pantry
Beautiful, beautiful Jesus is beautiful, And Jesus makes beautiful Things of my life. Carefully touching me, causing my eyes to see. Jesus makes beautiful Things of my life. ~Dennis Cleveland To...
ACME is again offering Food Pantry “Bags” for purchase
ACME in Yorktown Heights is once again offering customers the opportunity to “buy” a bag of groceries which will be donated to our food pantry and the food pantry at Yorktown Community Help....
A New Model for the Food Pantry?
Currently the FPCY Pantry delivers 175200 prepackaged bags per month. In 2015 over 464 households received approximately 4,320 bags of Prepackaged groceries. Just to give you an idea of...