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March Food Drive 2026
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. Read More
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
The Corner Shelf is the food shelf we run here at Woodland, and lately we’ve been busy finding new ways to serve our community. Recently, we started working with two schools and a local church, providing emergency food boxes to families in need.
We’ve also had an uptick in people asking how they can help. So, here are a couple things you can do: Read More
The Corner Shelf Holiday Box Giveaway
When The Corner Shelf received a grant from Ramsey County this fall, the staff thought, “God wants us to do something with this.” So, in a matter of weeks, they turned that grant into action with a holiday box giveaway! Read More
Halloween at The Corner Shelf
The Corner Shelf is a bustling place on the south end of our building that serves hundreds of our neighbors in need each week! As you can see by these pics of staff and volunteers dressed up for Halloween, they sure know how to have fun! Read More
The Corner Shelf Gets Spooky
St. Paul’s first snowfall didn’t deter our Corner Shelf crew from bringing their Halloween Costume A-game! Read More
The Corner Shelf: Chris’s Story
The Corner Shelf is a hopping place — in August alone, our food shelf served 300-400 households per week! It takes a lot to pull off this operation, and the work is carried out through a rotation of staff members and a dedicated crew of 44 volunteers. Here’s the story of Chris, one of our super volunteers. Read More
The Dirt on Composting
At Woodland, we like to remind ourselves that the first job God gave us was to care for his creation. One of the ways we aim to do this is through our composting program. Read More
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
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