NEXT VACATION CLOSING JULY 3, 2025
4th of July Thursday
New applicants may come on Tuesday or Thursday morning from 9-12 and bring your ID with proof of address, plus pay stub/income records for each person in your household with your list of expenses. Only one member per household or address. If you qualify for federal assistance, you qualify for us.
See our latest news below!
Donations always appreciated:
Food: Food donations welcome! We are grateful for anything you would like to bring! Current food needs are canned meat or stew, peanut butter, spaghetti sauce, eggs, potato flakes, and milk. We do have a source for bread, salads, and drinks.
Clothes, household: Items in high demand: men's used comfortable shoes, men's jeans and t-shirts, and backpacks for those who walk or strong carry bags or suitcases that can be pulled on wheels. Clothes most appreciated still on their hangers when possible.
Furniture: There is a high demand for household essentials and small furniture as the homeless find places to stay. We accept donations of clean furniture.
We are open from 9-12 on Tuesday and Thursday. We arrive an hour before and leave an hour after our open times. The best time to bring a donation is before or after we open or after "rush" which is 9-10:30.
Holiday Wish List: Food for holiday-time boxes: Mashed potatoes, stuffing mix, canned vegetables and fruit, yams, soups, canned protein.
JUNE
Newell Brands Community Service Day! We enjoyed having Freya and her group come and help us serve the 127 families that came to us today for assistance. Newell Brands brought tents and sleeping bags for the homeless and others who needed them. What a big help to serve the community!
The Place Church Volunteers! A great group came to help everywhere at our food bank. They helped prepare food, clothes, shoes, chip bags, desserts and all sorts of things for the coming week! Wow!
Owens Corning prepares hygiene bags for financially insecure families. Thanks to Owens Corning we were able to provide each of the 200 families we served last week with a hygiene bag full of wonderful supplies to help everyone feel brand new! They fixed an assembly line at work and employees volunteered time to prepare 288 bags!
What a big blessing!
May
Thanks bundles to Queen of the Apostles Parish for their generous holiday weekend food drive! What a blessing! They brought an abundance of cereal and peanut butter that we were short of with lots of other goodies that will bring delight to families that receive assistance in our area.
April
LNS came to volunteer! They pitched in everywhere to help us serve the 94 families who came that day. LNS does manufacturing for the automotive and aerospace industries. Great to have such a top-notch and community-minded company here in Gastonia! They were lots of fun to work with! Thanks for your help LNS!
We do get fun/unusual donations. Here's one! See our volunteer Gayle with a whopper of a carrot that came in. That would make sommmmmme carrot cake!
March
Thanks to a donation through the Society of St. Andrew we received a pallet of Pickles! How grand! Everyone around here loves pickles and a few even love the pickle juice! We really enjoy having wonderful things to give our member families and share with area service groups!
February
City Church did a record-breaking food drive for us! They pulled out all the stops! They gave their members a paper grocery bag with a stapled list of selected food items. It took 4 SUV's and a cargo van to carry all their generosity. They are definitely a giving church! Thank you City Church!
Owens Corning always has fascinating projects to help families in their area! This time they made book bags with school supplies. They gave some for us and some to share with other groups. We were able to give 3 cases to a private school for children with autism and 30 were given to the new youth club after-school program. They needed school supplies for their projects and a place to keep each students things. The back packs worked perfectly. Thanks you Owens Corning!
January
Great news! SC Johnson, A Family Company has given us a $5000 grant to support our Expansion program! We are growing so much we remodeled our 2nd building to hold our non-food donations!
Our Expansion program just got a great boost: a $5000 grant from SC Johnson, A Family Company — the company that makes Windex, Ziploc and Glade. Thanks SC Johnson!
Thanks SC Johnson, A Family Company!
December
We loved having A&E come visit and volunteer! We enjoyed their staff and having their help right before Christmas when we had many special donations to share with our members. Thank you A&E for your heart for your community!
Givers have more fun than anyone! Thank you Queen of the Apostles Church for your big food drive. It blessed us so much right after Christmas as we face the cold winter months!
November
We are so grateful for the early college students at Gaston College. They helped us unload donations and get festive things ready for our members during the holidays. Volunteers are treasures!
October
A&E cares about their community!
Families in need in our area have been very blessed by American & Efird. They recently did a food drive and then sent a team to personally serve 80+ families who came for assistance. That boots-on-the-ground caring makes a huge difference! Thanks A&E!
Loads going to Western NC: We have been sending supplies with several groups to the mountains. Thanks to donations we have been able to send toilet paper, plates, paper towels, trash bags, snacks, water, first aid supplies, children and adult OTC medicines, gloves, sleeping bags, tents, and more. These shipments have gone to churches and donations centers in Mill Springs, Warrensville, Burnsville and Black Mountain.
September
We had lots of fun working with volunteers sent from LNS in Kings Mountain. We enjoy partnering with community-minded businesses. They sent their plant manager and leadership team. They came to serve their community and were willing to pitch in anywhere! Thanks so much LNS! https://lns-northamerica.com/
JULY
A very creative Vacation Bible School sent us Happy Birthday kits to give to birthday families in need. They included cake mix, frosting, candles, birthday card and other special things including the pan to cook the cake int! What a precious gift!
