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Family to Family - Fighting Hunger One Family at a Time
Family-to-Family is a non-profit, national hunger relief program that provides needy American families with basic life necessities during difficult times. Our mission is to connect families with more to profoundly poor, mainly rural families with much less.
The nuts and bolts of how Family-to-Family works are simple: A group of donating families forms a chapter, and each chapter is linked with a needy community. Each donating family in the chapter is matched with one needy family.
Once a month each donating family shops for 7 non-perishable dinner-type meals for “their” family, packs them in a box and delivers their box to their local Chapter Chairperson. (Or, 2 donating families can sponsor 1 needy family together.) Foods sent include things like rice, beans, mac & cheese, canned stew, soups and peanut butter.
Food boxes are timed to arrive the third week of each month, when food stamps often run out and local food pantries run low on food.
The Chapter Chairperson ships the boxes to an outreach worker in the needy community, who then distributes the food boxes to the families. There is no big organization, no expensive administrators; it’s just one-on-one, direct from one family to another.
It costs each donating family between $20 and $35 a month to buy the groceries, which are listed in a suggested shopping list on the Family-to-Family website each month (www.family-to-family.org). Shipping usually costs about $12 per month per box. When two sponsor families share a family, they can alternate shopping for food one month, paying shipping the next.
Each donating family is encouraged to include a note or a letter to their adopted family with every shipment, to help create a meaningful connection between the families. Often the sponsored families write back, although extreme poverty and illiteracy make it difficult for some to do so.
Adopting a family can be a meaningful way to teach children empathy and caring, because sending life’s necessities is such a concrete way to give. Kids can help shop for the food, pack the box, draw a picture for their family, or write a letter.
If you’re interested in joining Family-to-Family, please contact the Chapter Chairperson Bev Morgan at Or contact Pam Koner at or at (914) 478-0756. For more information, visit
Typical box of food would include:
4 cans soup, 2 boxes mac & cheese, 1 box rice, 1 box elbow macaroni, 1 large can fruit, 2 cans beans, 2 cans vegetables, 1 or 2 cans beef stew or beef hash, 1 box tuna noodle helper, 2 cans
Sloppy joes
Optional items would be:
Onions, garlic, flour, sugar, herbs, peanut butter, box of crackers, cereal, cake mix, pancake mix,
Tuna, corn bread mix, noodle soups, oatmeal, raisins
Sunday School is a great place to get to know people and develop a sense of family. The Chapel offers Adult Sunday School at 10:00 am. You are welcome to visit us at any time!
The nuts and bolts of how Family-to-Family works are simple: A group of donating families forms a chapter, and each chapter is linked with a needy community. Each donating family in the chapter is matched with one needy family.
Once a month each donating family shops for 7 non-perishable dinner-type meals for “their” family, packs them in a box and delivers their box to their local Chapter Chairperson. (Or, 2 donating families can sponsor 1 needy family together.) Foods sent include things like rice, beans, mac & cheese, canned stew, soups and peanut butter.
Food boxes are timed to arrive the third week of each month, when food stamps often run out and local food pantries run low on food.
The Chapter Chairperson ships the boxes to an outreach worker in the needy community, who then distributes the food boxes to the families. There is no big organization, no expensive administrators; it’s just one-on-one, direct from one family to another.
It costs each donating family between $20 and $35 a month to buy the groceries, which are listed in a suggested shopping list on the Family-to-Family website each month (www.family-to-family.org). Shipping usually costs about $12 per month per box. When two sponsor families share a family, they can alternate shopping for food one month, paying shipping the next.
Each donating family is encouraged to include a note or a letter to their adopted family with every shipment, to help create a meaningful connection between the families. Often the sponsored families write back, although extreme poverty and illiteracy make it difficult for some to do so.
Adopting a family can be a meaningful way to teach children empathy and caring, because sending life’s necessities is such a concrete way to give. Kids can help shop for the food, pack the box, draw a picture for their family, or write a letter.
If you’re interested in joining Family-to-Family, please contact the Chapter Chairperson Bev Morgan at Or contact Pam Koner at or at (914) 478-0756. For more information, visit
Typical box of food would include:
4 cans soup, 2 boxes mac & cheese, 1 box rice, 1 box elbow macaroni, 1 large can fruit, 2 cans beans, 2 cans vegetables, 1 or 2 cans beef stew or beef hash, 1 box tuna noodle helper, 2 cans
Sloppy joes
Optional items would be:
Onions, garlic, flour, sugar, herbs, peanut butter, box of crackers, cereal, cake mix, pancake mix,
Tuna, corn bread mix, noodle soups, oatmeal, raisins
Sunday School is a great place to get to know people and develop a sense of family. The Chapel offers Adult Sunday School at 10:00 am. You are welcome to visit us at any time!
Fireproof Your Marriage
Begins March 1st (6-weeks)
10:00am in the Sanctuary
Beginning Sunday, March 1st Reverend Anne Rex will offer a 6-week Sunday School
class entitled "Fireproof Your Marriage". We will meet in the Sanctuary beginning at 10:00am sharp! Will you dare to love unconditionally? "Fireproof Your Marriage" will challenge you to
love better, to love first, and to love for a lifetime! The six sessions include:
- "He Said, She Said" - Appreciating the God-designed differences between men and women
- "He First Loved Us" - God's love for you and how it enables you to love others
- "Love For A Lifetime" - Marriage as a lifelong covenant
- "Breaking Free" - Freeing yourself from temptations that can destroy a marriage
- "Forgiveness" - Offering and receiving forgiveness
- "A Better Way Of Loving" - Unconditional love
Fields Chapel
United Methodist Church
FIELDS CHAPEL UMC
PO Box 1633
Canton, Ga 30169
(770) 479-6030
