Salem Community Food Pantry

07/23/2026

It truly takes a community to keep our pantry going! 💛

Please join us in thanking the Salem Elks #1678 for their generous $3,000 donation to support our pantry! This gift will help us purchase staple foods that we aren't always able to keep stocked, allowing us to continue providing our neighbors with the food they need.

We are so grateful for your generosity and for the way you are helping us care for our community! Thank you! 🥫💛

06/16/2026

UPDATE (6/7, 12:30pm)
The bananas are GONE!!! Thank you all for your help!

UPDATE (6/17, 7:30am) ~415 cases left! Come and get them while you can! Open today from 8am-5pm. 🍌🍌🍌

Yes, we still have bananas!
We'll be here until 6 pm tonight (Tuesday) and back again tomorrow from 8 am to 5 pm.

The Salem Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry received a truck load with 970 boxes of Bananas. The Salem Food Pan...

06/16/2026

We have been blessed with a truckload of bananas—literally! 🚚🍌 We have thousands of pounds available, and we'd love to share them with the community.

Stop by and pick up bananas for your family, neighbors, church, workplace, or anyone who can use them. ❤️ Most are still green and will ripen over the coming days.

If your organization can use a substantial amount, please contact us as soon as possible. 📦

📞 Call or text: 505-660-2956
📍 Community Food Pantry, located at
Salem Grace United Methodist Church
116 E. Schwartz St., Salem

Please help us spread the word—it would help a "bunch"! 😉🍌

Feel free to share this post with friends, family, churches, schools, daycares, and community organizations. The more people we reach, the more bananas we can share! 🙌

03/24/2026

What a blessing!

The Franklin Park Middle School in Salem has collected 9,162 items in their recent two-week food drive to bene...

01/17/2026

Full freezer? Hunt anyway — for the pantry. 🦌❤️

01/11/2026

LAST CALL FOR DEER 🦌
As the season wraps up, please consider donating your deer to the Salem Ministerial Alliance Community Food Pantry. One deer can help feed multiple families right here in our community.

HOW TO DONATE:
🦌 Take your harvested deer to a licensed processor
🦌 Tell them it’s for the Salem Ministerial Alliance Community Food Pantry
🦌 Ask about discounted processing, if necessary, we can pay for the processing
🦌 We can coordinate delivery

This is the final push of the season, and your donation can make a real difference. Thank you for helping us feed our neighbors. 💙

THE NEED:
We are serving more families than ever—and we run low on meat regularly—so these donations help greatly!

11/27/2025

🍁 Thanksgiving Gratitude for Our Community 🍁
This Thanksgiving, we are overflowing with gratitude for our incredible community. The generosity we’ve witnessed this year has been nothing short of inspiring.

To every neighbor who has reached out with donations of food, toiletries, pet food, clothing, shoes, blankets, hats, and gloves… thank you. To those who have given financially, prayed for us, encouraged us, or simply cheered us on—your kindness keeps us going.

To our volunteers: you have stepped in again and again, truly becoming the hands and feet of Jesus. Your willingness to show up, serve, and love others makes all the difference.

And to our pantry guests: you continue to amaze us. Your gratitude, your strength, your willingness to bring food and clothing to share, and even your offers to volunteer—these are gifts that bless us deeply.

We are so thankful for this community—a community that never ceases to lend a helping hand, show compassion, and care for one another.

Happy Thanksgiving. We are so very grateful for you!
The Salem Community Food Pantry