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‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’ Luke 10:27-NKJV
On May 25, 2023 Mid-Michigan Now Fox 66 Television featured the Love Your Neighbor Personal Pantry for the Unsung Heroes Segment. You can learn more about the Pantry by reading the story, view photos and watch the video of the segment by clicking below.
The Love Your Neighbor Personal Pantry is a Ministry offered by The Valley Church. It is designed to help families and individuals that need daily personal care items which cannot be purchased with State Assistance.
We provide these items and more, to families who have become homeless due to a fire, eviction or displaced domestic violence victims, along with senior citizens, trying to make due on limited income.
“The best part of this ministry is meeting the people in our community – building relationships, praying with them and sharing the love of Jesus with them.”
Patty A. The Valley Church
Do you know of any senior citizens, families or other individuals on state assistance who can use help receiving products from our Pantry? The drive-thru is the first Wednesday of each month from 10 a.m. until 12 noon. We also have a special service where we deliver to home-bound senior citizens.
Our prayer is to work alongside local churches, community groups and local businesses to meet the needs of our recipients. You have the option to donate online, "build-a-kit" for $20, mail a check or mail a gift card to the church. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit and these donations go to purchasing pantry items. If you have any questions, feel free to call the pantry at 1-989-213-3331 or send us an email.
With this option, you help us "build a kit" for one recipient that includes the basic items for personal care, paper goods and cleaning supplies. It also covers "specialty items" that the recipient chooses during pickup. You may use PayPal or any major debit/credit card.
Your support and contributions of any amount will enable us to keep the Pantry stocked. You may use PayPal or any major debit/credit card.
The pantry drive-through is the first Wednesday of every other month. These are the scheduled drive-through dates: 9/4/24, 11/6/24, 1/8/25, 3/5/25, 5/7/25, 7/9/25.
Volunteers will be in the parking lot to instruct you on what to do. There is no need to get out of your vehicle.
Our goal is and always has been to serve as many people in our community, as long as we have stock. There are many families and seniors in need and since we operate on donations, we may not always have everything you need. Please be respectful of that. If you have any questions, feel free to call us at 1-989-213-3331 or send us an email.
Personal Care: Shampoo, Body wash, Liquid hand soap, Toothpaste
Paper Goods: Toilet paper, Paper towel, 13-gallon trash bags, Zipper bags
Cleaning Supplies: Laundry soap, Dish soap, All-purpose cleaner, Toilet bowl cleaner
Toothbrushes, Denture tabs and adhesive, Deodorant (male & female), Shaving cream (male & female), Razors (male & female), Feminine pads, Bladder leak pads (female), Dry pet food for dogs or cats. Sometimes we have pet treats available too.
Thank you to Party on McCarty for choosing our Love Your Neighbor Personal Pantry as their sponsored non-profit on July 11, 2024. We are beyond grateful for the opportunity to introduce our pantry to the people of Saginaw County. Also, a special thank you to Tracy Braley for all her help.
Additionally, we wish to recognize and thank those who donated items for our raffle. We are beyond blessed by these donations that provided funds for our pantry:
We are very grateful to Garber Automotive for their generous donation to the Pantry this month (May 2024). Garber is widely recognized as a donor to organizations in our community and we are honored and humbled to be a recipient of their kindness and generosity.
Kloha Group EXP Realty is an annual supporter of the Pantry and Kloha Contracting donated the new shelving for the Pantry. Thank you to both businesses for their kindness.
Thank you to Meijer for donating a generous gift card to help us purchase much needed supplies for the Pantry. We appreciate their kindness and generosity.
Thank you to Pet Supplies Plus for allowing us to retrieve many pet supplies from their donation bin. Their kindness helps us keep the pet supplies stocked in the Pantry to give to our recipients.
New Life Saginaw has provided generous donations to the pantry. We appreciate their support which enables us to continue to stock the pantry for our neighbors. We will be getting with them to see what we can do to help them as they prepare future community outreaches.
The owner of this company, Sweet Choices Cake Decorating School & Supplies, has been a long-time supporter of the pantry by donating several supplies frequently. Thank you for your gifts and generosity.
The Old Town Christian Outreach Center senior group, Senior Saints, collected and delivered donations to the pantry. Thank you to everyone who participated.
Thank you to St. John Vianney for sponsoring our Love Your Neighbor Personal Pantry in February. The bounty of items they collected was a welcome gift. It was such a privilege to work with them. Now, we in turn, will be collecting pet food for St. John's March collection, which will be donated to a local animal shelter.
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