Feed My Sheep Food Pantry

Cumberland County Parish -- United Methodist Churches

The Feed My Sheep Food Pantry has moved to its new location at 300 Oakland Heights, Burkesville, Kentucky.

FEED MY SHEEP FOOD PANTRY

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 entirely staffed by volunteers and has no paid employees.

Operating Hours:

Tuesday's: 12:00 PM to 5:00 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+

Gross Monthly Food Budget: $700

If you our your organization wish to volunteer or contribute financially to this worthwhile county-wide mission, contact Bud at 864-3366 or Karen at 864-5338

Feed My Sheep Food Pantry

300 Oakland Heights

Burkesville, Kentucky 42717

This facility is provided by the

Burkesville Housing Authority.

Food Sources:

The majority of the food distributed by FMSFP is purchased in bulk from America's Second Harvest of Kentucky's Heartland. America's Second Harvest 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 commercially excess but 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 America's Second Harvest 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.