Feed the Hungry at Village Baptist Church





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How Can You Help?

     Since we are a volunteer-run charity with only 1 full-time employee, and a mostly small part-time staff, every penny donated goes to buy, store, transport and give away nutritious food to about 15,000 hungry neighbors a year.

    Our wonderful donors provide the meat, vegetables, bread and canned and dry goods for more than 1.7 million meals a year. The average cost is about 17 cents.

     If you know of any businesses or groups that would like to hold a food drive for us or adopt some families please have them call me at 561-398-2828 or email me at daneshorter@yahoo.com.

     Donations are tax deductible. Checks should be made out to Village Baptist Church with Feed the Hungry in the memo line. Mail to Dan Shorter, 8306 155th Place North, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418.



     We are proud to partner with Extraordinary Charities to make Palm Beach County a better place to live for the less fortunate. Please email Dan Shorter at daneshorter@yahoo.com if you heard about our pantry through Extraordinary Charities.   

 God Bless our more than 200 volunteers, financial donors and the farmers and businesses that give us food!

After Hurricane Irma

     Many of our neighbors lost power, all of their refrigerated food and then a week of work. So we have been trucking ice, water, MREs, frozen meat, bread and produce to the poorest of the poor.

Working Together We Feed Hungry Neighbors and Give Them Hope! 

   With God’s blessing and your prayers, hard work and gifts we gave 90+ pounds of meat, produce, bread and canned goods to up to 1,750 families a month January through October and then gave free food to more than 2,600 families at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Examples of who we give healthy food to:

   1 – Three veterans who collected and recycled cans to get enough money to come register.

   2 – Linda who came home from a rehab center after having both legs amputated to find her sister had stolen all the food in her home. We made a food delivery the day we found out.

   3 – Families of children who are coping with cancer treatments.  

   4 – Patients at a free medical clinic who have no food at home.

   5 – Hungry men and women who work behind the scenes at the South Florida Fair.   

     Highlights:

   1 – We committed to making more food deliveries and by year’s end our dedicated volunteers were visiting about 60 households dealing with disabilities.

   2 – When the Veteran’s Administration said they were too busy to help them, we enrolled dozens of disabled veterans and delivered to many of their homes.

   3 – We signed up and began giving food monthly to about 60 families that are struggling with disabilities.

   4 – We quit buying canned goods and focused on collecting more meat and produce from Publix and Walmart and thus provided much more nutritious food to hungry families.

    5 – We added meat, produce and milk to the bread we weekly take to residents at two senior residences.

    6 – After giving toys to the children of all our 40+ partner agencies, we found out Salvation Army was in need and took them 2 truckloads of toys. Then we gave our last 2 truckloads to an elementary school.

   7 – We received a gift of about 100 blow up beds and are giving them to people sleeping on floors.

    Once again, we gave away more than 1.7 million pounds of healthy food and, counting the agencies we transport food for, helped feed more than 200,000 Palm Beach County families.