Groceries
Volunteers sort and hand out a full grocery shop to the families who come through. The food is given freely, and what arrives in each bag is a real week of groceries rather than a token gesture.
Our Story
It began quietly, in the spring of 2020.
Kelly Patrick and Cathy Hand started leaving small amounts of food outside a local business that sat at the edge of the Rosedale community. People came, and the two of them kept showing up, and over time the people they came to know stopped being strangers. The food was the first reason for stopping by, but it quickly became a smaller part of what was happening.
Today, between thirty and forty households gather at Union Missionary Baptist Church on Tuesday and Saturday mornings. Volunteers from the Rosedale neighborhood and from Oak Mountain Presbyterian Church and Homewood Community Church share groceries, God's word, prayer, and conversation in the fellowship hall. As friendships have deepened, the pantry has come to walk alongside neighbors with housing, medical, and the ordinary practical weight of holding a household together.
