Food Pantry

One of Eastside's most active benevolence ministries is our Food Pantry.  Eastside has maintained a Food Pantry for over 50 years.  We've been partnered with the West Texas Food Bank (WTFB) since at least 2013. Unfortunately, the Food Pantry was destroyed along with the rest of our main building in 2018.   WTFB filled the gap during the three years that we were without a building by setting up monthly food distributions and providing pre-made pantry boxes which we kept in one corner of the Annex for emergencies.

We understood that many in our community depended upon our assistance, so a priority in the new building was our Client-Choice Food Pantry. In fact, the pantry area is nearly as large as our worship center! Beginning December 1, 2021, our new Food Pantry began serving clients at the new church building. Clients are able to select the groceries they need from our fully stocked pantry.  We are open from 9-noon Monday -Friday (except on major holidays.)  Clients must be registered by 11:45 to allow time to shop before closing.  Currently we are serving around 250 families each month.

Distributions are given based upon WTFB rules and requirements.  Their invaluable partership enables us to serve so many more families than we could without them.  Sign-up is easy--just basic household information.

Our pantry is blessed to be staffed with a wonderful group of volunteers, including bilingual volunteers.  These ladies donate many hours of their time-not just when the pantry if open, but also accepting deliveries and stocking shelves after hours.

We also host the West Texas Food Bank Produce Pod in the front parking lot approximately once a month.  WTFB brings a refrigerated trailer full of produce to for us to give away to the entire Kermit community.  No qualifications are needed for this wonderful outreach. The Pantry closes on Produce Pod days.

See the church calendar for dates.