St. Francis Episcopal Church Food Pantry

The year 2013 was a good year for the Food Pantry. Thanks to the generosity of St. Francis' parishioners and friends who support the pantry, we raised a record $3,906 from the Santa Lucia celebration and the Choir's Thanksgiving Evensong. This amount was matched with money from the Outreach Fund. In October, Susan Reamy wrote the annual Deanery Grant and we received $1000. We are very thankful for the generosity of our parishioners and look forward to continuing this ministry in 2014. As we go forward in 2014 we will continue to send a monthly donation of $525 to the San Francisco Food Bank to help pay for the food we receive every Wednesday. This donation pays for approximately one third of the actual cost of the food. We have agreed to go back to receiving USDA products from the Food Bank. This helps their budget because some of our products will be subsidized by the government and will allow them to save that money on their end. It means a little more paper work for us, but hopefully some good products for our clients too. Since we have sufficient money in our account at this time we can assume the cost for our weekly clean up ($20 a week).