2025
Serving folks from Kent Island thru Centreville with food to cook their Thanksgiving Dinner. Family to Family!
Sponsored by local churches~Supported by
local community
We also support local food pantries by alleviating their need to feed clients during the holidays. They can save their food for all the other weeks and give their volunteers a much needed respite!
Proverbs 22:9
The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.
Services
FOOD BOX DELIVERIES
We provide door-to-door delivery of Thanksgiving food boxes filled with all the essentials for a memorable holiday meal. We also have a growing amount of folks choosing to PICK-UP. We will provide loading of their vehicles!
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Churches, businesses, groups and schools participate with food drives, and displaying Turkey Tags for one family to choose to provide a Food Box and Turkey for Delivery to another family! Great opportunity for team building or service hours.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Many opportunities to help: receiving and sorting food drive donations, working the Turkey Truck, preparing boxes for delivery, actual deliveries and after Thanksgiving work for sharing with others! We love our team of FEED A FAMILY Volunteers and there is always room for more!
Contact
NEED HELP THIS THANKSGIVING?
The areas we serve are Stevensville, Chester, Grasonville, Queenstown, and the Centreville Area.
Thanksgiving Food Box and Frozen Turkey
Please call between October 8 & November 15, 2024
301 512 8448 410 827 9230 703 967 8674
or sign up on line
https://forms.gle/sHjfTSa2Wvi5qygm8
Food to be delivered by 2:00pm on Saturday, November 22
Someone must be present to sign for delivered food!
HOW CAN i HELP THIS THANKSGIVING?
FOOD DRIVES
Schools, smaller Churches, Teams, Scouts, Businesses and more organize food drives to drop off to us. We use the food to supplement larger families, help with the weekend food Back Pack Program, upcoming Christmas Programs and local Food Pantries.
FAMILY TURKEY TAGS
Churches, Businesses and Groups display tags that represent local families that have called for help. 2025 Tags are asking for enough food to feed a Family of Four and will have a check mark if you are to bring a Frozen Turkey or packs of Ham Slices. The back of the tag gives suggestions of food to purchase, and where and when to drop off your donation!
MONETARY DONATIONS
While we do not actively fund raise (we exchange food!) we do accept grocery gift cards, checks or cash. These monetary gifts are used for bread, electricity, porta-potty, but, mostly an extra donation to the largest families....a bag filled with household and personal items. We do not have 501 (c) (3) status.
WORK WEEK/DELIVERY DAY
2025 WORK WEEK is Tuesday, November 17, through Friday, November 21. We sort food drive items, receive and organize family tag donations, and prep for deliveries. Saturday, November 22, teams of individuals and families fill up their vehicles and deliver while others, do check outs, work outside with the Turkey Truck Team, and load up vehicles for those who are Picking Up their Food Box. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090D48ACAC23A75-51387932-2024
AFTER THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS!
The Monday after Thanksgiving, we begin the packing up and organizing leftovers to be distributed.
PARTNERS
LOCATION
Douglas Development lends us the enormous space for receiving and distributing food during the holidays! QAC Parks and Rec provides Douglas Development with a Certificate of Liability Insurance on our behalf.
PRODUCE/BREAD
Lowery's Fresh Produce donate potatoes and onions to supplement the food boxes. KIVFD Women's Auxiliary purchases loaves of bread.
FOOD DRIVE PICK UPS & MORE
The Knights of Columbus spend 2 mornings, during work week, picking up school food drive donations and delivering them to our work center. They also pick up, set up and return tables that we use through the week.
TABLES
EBBTIDE Tent and Party Rentals lend us sturdy tables that we use for check in and out....and for Family Boxes placement into their delivery areas.
PACKAGING
VICTORY Packaging donates and drops off flat boxes for us fold and use as needed! Shore United Bank joined in 2024 donating cloth totes that we will use for a couple of years!! Velocity Heating and Air Conditioning gave more bags to use for our sweet seniors!
TURKEY TRUCKS
RJH Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Services donates the use of two freezer trailers to keep the turkeys and more frozen until Delivery Day. United Shell Fish and Kent Island Volunteer Fire Department has loaned us overflow freezer space.
SPONSORS
Some of our special volunteers have taken on the organization of this program! We wanted to help them out by being one of the many DROP OFF SITES!
