Pascagoula church hosts food bank

From Mississippi

St. John’s Episcopal Church in Pascagoula hosted the Bay Area Food Bank Mobile Pantry Distribution program on Saturday, providing food for about 110 families in need.

St. John’s has purchased grocery items regularly from the Bay Area Food Bank for its own food pantry, which has been distributing food to those in need for 30 years. The church has a food pantry open on each Monday that feeds between 20 and 30 families, but this is the first time that they have tried food distribution of this magnitude, said Connie Belk, outreach commissioner of St. John’s Episcopal Church.

“We are just happy to have the opportunity through Bay Area Food Bank to be able to get this much food distributed in a short period of time,” said Belk.

Families that are eligible to participate in the food pantry are selected in a preregistration process by the local food distribution agency.

In larger scale distributions such as this, the Bay Area Food Bank gives the agency nearly 5,000 pounds of food that they have received through donations from manufacturers, grocery stores and individuals.

The Bay Area Food Bank serves South Mississippi, south Alabama and the Panhandle of Florida, totaling 24 counties.

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