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Food Shelf
March Food Drive 2024
March is Food Nutrition Month, so throughout the month, we’ll be collecting food, donations and brown paper bags for our food shelf, the Corner Shelf. Since this time last winter, the number of households we’re serving has more than doubled! Read More
Welcoming a Second Food Shelf
By early Spring we expect another 600 or so people coming to our campus for food Mondays through Saturdays. And in Greg’s words, “That, beloved sisters and brothers, is what a building, and a community, committed to the Kingdom ought to look like!” Read More
The Corner Shelf March Food Drive Success!
Thanks so much for your generous support for the Corner Shelf, and our neighbors in need. We were able to collect WAY more than our goal, which will be a great blessing to the clients of our food shelf. We appreciate your partnership and support! Read More
The Corner Shelf: Don’s Story
We are halfway through our food drive at The Corner Shelf as we celebrate National Nutrition Month, and so far we have brought in 551 pounds of food toward our goal of 2,000! The Corner Shelf serves a critical role in our community and gives us the opportunity to meet all sorts of people. One of the clients we’ve gotten … Read More
The Corner Shelf: Custom Curbside!
Thanks to your generous fundraising, The Corner Shelf kicked off its first week of custom curbside service! What’s that, you say? The idea behind custom curbside… Read More
The Corner Shelf Fundraiser Success!
You did it! We asked for $25,000 in order to make some improvements to our food shelf, and you raised a total of $34,417! Paula Bowlby, Associate Outreach Pastor, shared the reaction from The Corner Shelf staff: “I wish you could have seen our team high five as we got the numbers. I shouldn’t be surprised… Read More
Introducing The Corner Shelf
We are so grateful for the partnership we’ve had with Merrick, and this summer we’re excited to announce that Woodland has now taken full ownership and operation of the food shelf! Read More
Food Drive: Crushed it!
We asked you to help us bring in 3,000 pounds of food, but you went above and beyond and brought in a whopping 8,932 pounds! Read More
Food Drive 2022
In 2020, when Merrick Community Services had to redirect their staff to only one location, we rearranged our own staff tasks and resources to keep the food shelf here running. Currently, food prices are increasing and some of our usual sources of food donations have dried up. We need your help to continue feeding neighborhood families! Starting Sunday, March 6, we’ll be holding a food drive with a goal of bringing in 3,000 lbs of food by the end of the month. Read More
The Gift of a Good Meal
Why the party hats, you ask? At the end of March, Woodland will celebrate one year of running the food shelf in our building when Merrick Community Services realized they wouldn’t have the capacity during COVID. After crunching the numbers, our figures show that we’ve served roughly 64,960 meals to families facing food scarcity. Read More
