What is the Backpack Ministry?
The Backpack Ministry serves the students and families of Third Creek Elementary School in Iredell County where 90-95 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced lunches. This began as a project for West United Methodist Church and the Prayerful Servants CLC (Christian Life Community), but the need has grown. Now this ministry has become a part of our parish Outreach program. So far, we have sixty students requesting our help.
Our goal is to have supplementary food every other week for every student who expresses a need. In communicating with the school counselor, she has told me that their “kids truly enjoy and look forward to getting support, many of them take this responsibility VERY seriously and consider this their way of helping out their family.”
We need your help to provide them with this supplementary food. In union with our Food Pantry, we list foods needed in the weekly bulletin. But we still need your help to provide this supplementary food every other week.
Our costs are approximately $10 per bag. With the growing needs and the expansion of the ministry, we are in need of donations. If you would like to help support the backpack ministry, instead of having collections boxes, there will be envelopes marked "Backpack" at the doors of the Church. Please use these for your donations of cash, checks (made out to St.Therese with "Backpack" in the memo), or gift cards to Walmart or Aldi's. Please place the envelopes in the regular collections.
Anticipating your generosity, thank you for helping feed these families!
If you would like more information, please send an email to meader3@gmail.com.
The St. Therese Food Pantry is requesting donations of:
Spam
SpaghettiOs
Syrup
Pancake Mix
(Backpack Ministry)
Please Remember: No opened or fresh foods
Check Dates! - expired food must be thrown away!
Thank you for your generosity!
Food Pantry
St. Therese Food Pantry Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide food to parishioners of St. Therese and to residents living in a designated service area who are dealing with unexpected catastrophic financial circumstances.
This assistance is intended to provide nonperishable food and basic necessities to bridge the gap until financial recovery takes place or until such time as other assistance can be established.
Assistance is available to all parishioners of St. Therese and residents residing in Iredell County zip codes: Mooresville 28115 and 28117, Mt. Mourne 28123 and 28125 and Troutman 28166.
The Food Pantry is open the first and third Mondays of each month from 10:00 – 11:30am and the second and fourth Sundays of each month from 1:00 – 2:30pm.
The Food Pantry is closed when the Parish Offices are closed.
When the Food Pantry is closed, emergency food is available in the Parish Office Monday – Friday 8:00am – 12:00pm and 12:30 – 4:30pm except when the Parish Office is closed.
For questions or assistance, please contact the Parish Office 704-664-3992.
Food Pantry Schedule:
January Schedule
Monday, January 6th
Sunday, January 12th
Sunday, January 26th
*CLOSED Monday, January 20th (Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday)
February Schedule
Monday, February 3rd
Sunday, February 9th
Monday, February 17th
Sunday, February 23rd