Food For Thought

09/20/2026

Sept 20 2026 - 🍲Our community is so compassionate and generous! ❤️You gave and gave on Friday night to our hunger outreaches. Lots of food for the weekend bags at our beloved Maplewood Elementary where will pack for 110 kids a week to close the weekend hunger gap for our families!!😊. And $700 in donations.

Also lots of food for our free weekly no questions asked food pantry at New Richmond😇. We filled Coach Zurasky’s truck🛻.

Food scarcity, hunger and food deserts are in every school district in America, not just Penncrest. 🎓. Prices are going up and we are making the difference.

The power has always been in our compassion❤️. Huge thank you’s.
We Bring His Food and His Presence😇

09/11/2026

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09/11/2026

Special Announcement for Fri Sept 18 2026 - 🏈Food For Thought volunteers will be accepting food donations for our free weekend school bags for Maplewood Elementary kids and the free food pantry next Friday, Sept 18 at our 🐯. HOME FOOTBALL GAME with Cambridge Springs. Let’s fill Coach Zurasky’s truck up with food once again!🛻🛻🛻🛻

❤️🥫We suggest the following : no black beans and, please, no expired items will be accepted.
Pudding cups, cinnamon applesauce cups, cinnamon graham crackers, fruit n grain bars, protein bars chicken noodle soup, tomato soup, ramen noodles peanut butter crackers, macaroni and cheese cans of ravioli or spaghetti in a can, Box of toaster tarts box of cereal( no corn flakes)

😇 Bring something with you to the game. We are packing for 100 beautiful children at the school every weekend starting Oct 1.

🥫😊 The food pantry needs: soup , cans of fruit canned chicken boxes of jello boxes of pudding, spaghetti sauce spaghetti noodles, elbow macaroni saltine crackers canned carrots green beans corn, baked beans boxes of
stuffing., applesauce, peanut butter, jelly,. The free food pantry is open every Wed 4-5:30 pm year round. No questions asked.

❤️. We are committed to our beloved community and you are helping us fill in the hunger gap for our families. Thank you for helping us make the difference. 😇. We Bring His Food and His Presence. See you at the Maplewood HOME Football game on Fri September 18! 🏈

08/19/2026

Reminder Crawford Gives begins TODAY and ends Fri. Your donation to Food For Thought fights food insecurity for so many of our neighbors at our weekly rural food pantry and our weekend food bags every week for approximately 95-100 kids at our beloved Maplewood Elem school. And, one more, we pay for the Kindergarten snacks for approximately 60 kids every day from Sept thru June😇.
It’s because of the compassion and generosity of so many churches, businesses and individuals in our amazing area who donate all year round. And, our many volunteers who donate their time every week ! Huge Thank You’s. ❤️. Crawford Gives starts today😎

08/17/2026

Update 8-17-26—Thank you all so much for sharing the Food For Thought post about Crawford Gives. It begins this Wed Aug 19. We had approximately 1,000 views of our Facebook post so far !

School is starting and we will begin buying and stocking all the food in mid September for our first packing on Oct 2. We buy enough food for 6 weeks at a time until school ends in June 2027!

The compassion and generosity from the people in our community is amazing.
We Bring His Food and His Presence😇

08/12/2026

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08/12/2026

Update 8-12-26 —— Reminder The annual Crawford Gives is happening Aug 19-21. Last year we took in approximately $2,400 during this 3 day event. Thank you all for your support, compassion and generosity from so many helping to fight hunger in our area. We are beginning our 9 th year of fighting hunger. We Bring His Food and His Presence. 😇

Please go to their website crawfordgives.com. It explains all the information on ways to donate to Food For Thought. We are on the list of nonprofits.

Much appreciation for the continued donations this summer. Our free rural hunger outreaches are making the difference in our beloved community. 🥪The food pantry is open every Wednesday 4:00. - 5:30. Anyone can receive 1 paper bag full of food, that you choose, from our shelves. it’s 1 bag of food per family. Free. The approximate cost per bag is $15-20.00 a bag.

Our weekend food bags will begin Oct 1 at our awesome Maplewood Elementary School. Last school year 5 volunteers a week packed 95-100 bags per week! Each food bag cost approximately $4.00 a bag. That’s 400.00 a week. A $25.00 donation will pay for 6 bags of non perishable food items. We give kids 6 items in each bag every Fri and much more during holiday breaks. Teachers see the difference when a child arrives to school on Monday morning and they are not “hangry.” Children have thanked us by letter for the food.
We also pay for the Kindergarten Snacks everyday so the cost is not passed on to the adults.
💸Please give a donation during Crawford Gives Aug 19-21. We have made the difference❤️

Crawford Gives

04/01/2026

3-31-26—-Thank you to all the generous volunteers who help keep this outreach moving. We estimate we have 25-30 volunteers total. It’s 6-7 a week every week—- 5 at the school packing bags and 2 at the pantry—serving others. And many others such as, the office folks at school, volunteers ordering food, picking up food, unloading food at the school and the pantry. Turning on the heat in the pantry, shoveling snow, scattering salt, taking inventory and cleaning up.

And if you have ever donated food, treasure or time to this outreach… we know, you too are “Bringing His Food and His Presence” to your neighbor.
✝️😇

03/31/2026

Update March 31 2026- Happy Easter Everyone! ✝️. We have been packing weekend food bags for 95 kids at our beloved Maplewood Elementary school all year, every Friday. We can do this because of the compassion and generosity of people in our communities. ❤️. Our free food pantry is located beside New Richmond United Methodist Church and is open every Wed 4:00 pm-5:30 pm. Everyone welcome. No questions asked. We are ready for Easter.

We are so grateful to all the churches that continue to have food drives for us and all the donations from businesses and individuals. Because of your acts of kindness, we are making the difference by closing the hunger gap that exists for so many kids, families and friends in our wonderful community.
A little child at school saw us packing bags recently, and he told us “this food is God-given”.
We Bring His Food and His Presence. 😇
Happy Easter❤️

12/17/2025

Update Tues, Dec 16,2025 - Merry Christmas Everyone🎄. The food drives that you all have done for this outreach and our beloved community are so generous and make a huge difference to our: 97 kids that get weekend food bags at the school every Friday, 58 kindergartners that get a snack everyday, and the weekly food pantry at New Richmond Grange building.

We are the only rural food pantry in 15 miles. !We never ask questions—- just show up and we’ll give you a paper bag you can fill up.

The pantry is open today 4-5:30. Next week we will Be Open On TUESDAY Dec 23 at 4-5:30 INSTEAD OF WED the 24th!!

❤️🕯️ Huge appreciation to all the generous volunteers, churches, businesses, and individuals in our awesome community. The weekend school bags have been here 7 + years and the pantry 5 yrs..! Because of your every donation . Thanks be to God for His wondrous calling in our lives.
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