Feed My Sheep Food Pantry Information
Mission
Statement:
The Feed My Sheep Food Pantry is a Christian Organization dedicated to
providing free food items to persons struggling with economic crisis. The
food pantry is funded entirely by donations from churches, private
individuals, commercial organizations, and civic groups. The Feed My
Sheep Food Pantry is staffed entirely by unpaid volunteers.
Operating Hours:
Tuesday: 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Families served must meet the same criteria
used by the federal food stamp distribution program.
FMSFP Statistics
Average Families Served Weekly: 150 families
Number of Volunteers: 15+
If you or your organization wish to volunteer or contribute financially to this worthwhile county-wide mission, contact Karen at 270-459-2240.
Feed My Sheep Food Pantry
926 Oakland Heights>
Burkesville, Kentucky
This facility is provided by the
Burkesville Housing Authority.
Food Sources:
The majority of the food distributed by FMSFP is purchased in bulk from Feeding America. Feeding America operates as a central clearing-house for collecting and distributing food and grocery products that might otherwise be wasted. The food bank solicits and receives both new and manufactured excess food that is otherwise fully edible food from the food industry such as manufacturers, distributors, warehouse and storage operations, grocery chains, or from individual donors. It also benefits from being a member of the Feeding America network of food banks, which solicits food and grocery products in large quantities from national manufacturers and distributes these goods among nearly 200 regional food banks in the United States.
FMSFP also receives non-perishable commercially prepared canned goods and other foods via local congregation food drives.
Local growers are encouraged to "plant an extra row" during the growing season to provide fresh vegetables to the patrons of FMSFP.
