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The Community Food Truck allows people to anonymously take what they need or donate unopened, nonperishable food that they don't need.

01/19/2026

Frequently asked questions, answers and a huge thank you for being amazing!!

And please, please, please help us keep glass out of the blessing boxes in the winter!❄️

01/04/2026

2026 is off to an exciting start for The Community Food Truck Blessing Box all thanks to the incredible talent and generosity of our community!

One of our biggest priorities over the past few years has been maintenance. To ensure our blessing boxes can continue providing food security to Miami County. And if you’ve stopped by a blessing box recently, you know it was time we updated the blessing boxes with heavy-duty materials.

This project would not have been possible without for building and painting the boxes, .live for painting the stencils on the red blessing boxes, and for generously donating the stickers for the blue blessing boxes.

Now it’s our turn to keep them stocked! The blessing boxes can be filled with non-perishable food at any time. However, if you’d like to sign up to fill boxes on a specific day, email us at [email protected] and we’ll be in touch.

Thank you for helping make another year possible! We are so, so grateful ❤️

10/03/2025

Thank you to everyone who has expressed interest in helping fill the blessing boxes—it is truly a team effort! While we would love to have an endless supply of food available, that is not the case right now. We do our best to keep the blessing boxes stocked, but we also rely on the community to add what they can.

We’ve removed the previous sign-up link and created a new interest form. This will help us better match volunteers with available opportunities and ensure we have enough food to provide.

Please view the interest form here. https://forms.gle/tTcasgmzQdaEc3ku6

In addition, if your church, school, sports team, or organization is interested in hosting a food drive, we’d love to connect with you. Your support in helping us refill our bins with non-perishable food would make a huge difference.

Thank you!

07/01/2025

One of the questions I’ve gotten asked the most recently is, “Are the blessing boxes still getting filled?” The truth is, they are, but they get used more than we can fill them.

If you have a few extra hours this summer to give back to the community, we would greatly appreciate it! Our goal is to have the blessing boxes stocked at least once a day and we truly can’t do it without you!

Check out the sign up genius, find a day that works for you and let us know if you would like us to provide the food.

It is truly that simple… food insecurity is a never ending, complex challenge but making an impact doesn’t have to be.

Thank you for your continued love and support! We are so grateful ❤️

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04/03/2025

The Community Food Truck Blessing Box turned FIVE! 🎉 That calls for extra fun treats like Funfetti cake mix and sprinkle cookies and a huge thank you to you for showing up day after day to help keep the blessing boxes stocked. Together the Community Food Truck Blessing Box is more than food security, but is a reminder to the community they are loved and cared about.

The April - June Sign Up Genius is live!

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Here’s to another amazing year!

03/13/2025

What an amazing evening with the Troy Skate Church.. good food, good friends, and a really great mission!

The Troy Skate Church is committed to loving and mentoring skateboarders from all over the Dayton area and is headquartered in Troy, Ohio.

Check them out .church !! 🛹

12/31/2024

I often talk about how The Community Food Truck Blessing Box wouldn’t be possible without the community working together to help keep the blessing boxes stocked, and while it may seem like just a statement of appreciation, it is much more than that. The blessing boxes would be no more than a wooden box if it weren’t for the hundreds of people who rally together to keep them filled. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

If it has been a while since you stopped at a blessing box, but are feeling inspired to start making your rounds again, I wanted to share an updated list of the locations. The two changes you might notice are: there is no longer a blessing box at the St. Pat’s Soup Kitchen and the blessing box in West Milton has moved to City Hall.

Here’s to the last day of 2024 and big dreams for 2025! Thank you for your continued support and generosity!

12/30/2024

As you reflect on 2024 and plan for 2025, if you are feeling called to love the community in a new way, we have an opportunity for you! 🤍 The Community Food Truck Blessing Box was founded in March of 2020 with the goal of anonymously making food available to those in need regardless of their circumstance. Over the past five years, the blessing boxes have not only filled countless rumbling bellies, but also reminded hundreds of people that they are loved and cared about. But we couldn’t do it alone! If you are feeling called, we would love for you to be a part of our amazing army of volunteers.

There are several ways to get involved:

1) The first way would be filling the blessing boxes anonymously. This option is great if you are short on time, but able to pick up a couple extra things from the grocery store to put in one of the 18 blessing boxes around town on your way home.

2) Another way to serve is to sign up through the link in bio and fill the blessing boxes on a scheduled day. On your scheduled day, you are welcome to fill as many blessing boxes as you would like and we are happy to provide the food to do so.

3) Or if you are ready to go all in, we are always looking for people willing to fill the blessing boxes regularly. For example, rather than signing up for a random day, you could fill the boxes every first Tuesday of the month or every last Saturday of the month.

The possibilities are endless, what are you inspired to do in the New Year?

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09/19/2024

The last Sign Up Genius of 2024 is now out! It feels like we say this every time, but every time it is true…now more than ever, we need your help. The community needs your help. Our friends need your help.

Whether you are able to sign up to fill the blessing boxes one day a month, several days a month, or just add a couple nonperishable food items here and there on your way home from the grocery, you are making an impact. An impact that goes far beyond feeding a rumbling belly, but reminds someone they are loved, seen and cared about.

If you have questions about signing up to fill the blessing boxes, are interested in hosting a food drive, or just want to learn more, don’t hesitate to reach out! Alone we can do so little, but together we can do so much. Thank you for loving the community.

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06/12/2024

Summer... full of sunshine, friends, swimming, and if we aren't careful... ants!

Please help us keep the blessing boxes clean and the food safe for our friends to enjoy by filling the blessing boxes with only non-perishable food. While it is great to share homegrown produce, anything that is not non-perishable food rots very quickly in the blessing boxes attracting lots of ants and makes a big mess!

We would love for you to join our army of amazing volunteers: check out the Sign Up Genius, find a date that works for you, reach out if you would like us to provide the food, and make a difference right here in our community!

We couldn't do it without you!!!

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03/27/2024

Writing this post immediately took me back to all of the feelings I had on March 22, 2020 when our very first blessing box was installed at The Lincoln Community Center. As my dad dug the post into the ground, I wondered, “Would this idea work? Would we be able to rally enough help? Would people feel loved simply by opening the door of a brightly painted food truck?” If those questions weren’t enough, just a few days later the whole country shut down due to COVID-19. Every blessing box has “give what you can, take what you need” written on the front of it, however suddenly, everyone was running to the store in fear, stocking up on toilet paper and clearing food shelves because thats what the news was telling us we needed to do. As people were filling their pantries in panic, I didn’t think there was any way anyone would be willing to give, but I was very wrong!

Much of the first year of The Community Food Truck Blessing Box was operated during the height of a national pandemic, and while that is not how I pictured our journey would start, it is a testimony of God’s faithfulness and perfect timing. In the midst of chaos and confusion, God opened door after door and before we knew it, there were 18 blessing boxes in 5 different cities.

In the last 1,460 days, the blessing boxes have been stocked with hundreds of thousands of packets of ramen noodles, cans of meat, bottles of water, peanut butter crackers and so much more. With your help, in addition to the blessing boxes being filled daily, Christmas morning and Thanksgiving groceries have been passed out to hundreds, pizza, snacks and smiles have been delivered to local apartment complexes, and healthy afterschool snacks were shared with students at the Lincoln Community Center.

As we filled the blessing boxes with birthday themed treats this weekend, my prayer was that together we continue to walk in faith and show up to love our community every day. Most of the time we don’t know who we are impacting when we fill the blessing boxes or send in a donation, but from the people I have had the privilege of meeting and the messages i’ve received, I know together we have touched the lives of many veterans, the homeless community, single moms, families facing job loss, hungry kids, and those living on fixed incomes, just to mention a few.

Thank you for your continued support and generosity! We are celebrating year four with very thankful hearts!

03/18/2024

It may be snowing today, but Spring is approaching and that means it's time to roll out our next volunteer schedule!

I get notified every time a spot is filled on the Sign-up Genius, and every notification that pops up makes me smile. Why? Because every spot that is selected, means a belly that is filled, a smile is shared, and someone is reminded they are cared about.

If you would like more information on filling the blessing boxes, just send us a message. Thank you for your continued support and for loving the community so well! We are so thankful you!

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