Time to put the annual Giving Sunday on your calendar! It will be the first Sunday in December, 12/3, to accommodate the Food Pantry’s Toys for Tots Distribution date. We offer the opportunity...
Food Pantry Plus
What I Learned About the Food Pantry
Today (a Friday) I dropped by to help organize items for the Food Pantry. Perhaps like many of you, I’m aware of the Pantry, have donated money to it, and brought turkeys prior to Thanksgiving, but...
Holiday Turkeys and Hams for Our Food Pantry Clients
The Food Pantry appreciates gifts of turkeys for our clients’ Thanksgiving dinners. They can be dropped off on Saturday, November 18 at the back door to Room 16 (cemetery side). Between 7:30 am...
Service opportunities at the Food Pantry — Come One, Come All !
This is our busiest time of year ! We need help on Fridays (see dates below) for sorting and shelf stocking, as well as picking up leftover bread from two local businesses; and on Saturday mornings...
Please Help the Food Pantry Reach its 2017 $10,000 Matching Goal
DID YOU KNOW? The FPCY Food Pantry has a matching grant that is critical to our ability to serve the hungry. The grant will match up to $10,000 per year in monetary donations from...
School Supplies for Food Pantry Families Requested
On Saturday, August 12 our Food Pantry will distribute school supplies to children. We will be purchasing kits of supplies for the younger grades, and asking the congregation to bring in supplies for...
Help Support Organic Produce Coming to Our Food Pantry
Looking for a way to Eat Green this summer, and support local farming (and also our own Food Pantry)? Hilltop Hanover Farm and Environmental Center, right here in Yorktown (preserving the land of a former...
The FPCY Food Pantry Full Choice Model is Operational!
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...
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”...