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The Backpack Crew is a ministry of the United Methodist Church of Red Bank. Located at 247 Broad Street. We are open for ALL to CONNECT with God and others, to grow in our FAITH and to SERVE in love.
Thank you to these lovely ladies and our community partner @oasis_tlc for donating eggs to our food pantry! #foodpantry #emergencyfood #foodinsecurity #communitypartners #redbanknj #middletownnj #farmfresheggs #foodislove #fooddesert #forourkids
Come get summer reading for your kids while picking up food. Also this week is bagel week! June 6th 5 to 7 PM 247 Broad St Red Bank Open to all!
Thank you to @turningpointrestaurants for donating around 500 chocolate bombs to our food pantry! They will be dispersed next Monday night! #communitypartners #redbanknj #foodpantry #emergencyfood #longbranchnj #foodislove #littlesilvernj #forourkids #foodinsecurity
Our most important food drive of the year! Helps us get through the summer. Especially with our food pantry clients being up 30% the past two months! Thank you Dermer family and all that contributed to this amazing event! #fooddrive #emergencyfood #fairhavennj #redbanknj #foodinsecurity #communitypartners #forourkids #foodislove
This was our set up two years ago. Packing bags socially distanced while our church building was closed. Delivering our backpacks to peoples doorsteps. Making bags to hand out to people from the church playground at our food pantry. That was crazy. But we never stopped and we’ve been flexible and made changes on the fly and took care of as many people as we could. Looking at this picture makes me so thankful for our volunteers who carried us through. And they are still going today. What a ride ❤️🍏#emergencyfood #foodislove #foodpantry #redbanknj #middletownnj #foodinsecurity #communitypartners #forourkids
Open every Monday evening 5:00 to 7:00. #foodpantry #emergencyfood #foodislove #redbanknj #middletownnnj #forourkids #foodinsecurity #communitypartners
A much needed food drive from Troop and Pack 50 of Shrewsbury! The boys collected, sorted and delivered carloads of food yesterday plus got a look at our food pantry and backpack operation. Thank you also to the leaders and Shrewsbury families that participated! ❤️🍏 #boyscouts #cubscouts #shrewsburynj #redbanknj #emergencyfood #foodislove #foodpantry #forourkids #foodinsecurity #enoughforall #middletownnj
Honored to have received the Four Chaplains Humanitarian Award today at the Port Monmouth VFW Post 2179. The VFW has been an invaluable community partner of ours since 2013! A wonderful service today and loved hearing about the amazing bravery of the Four Chaplains. Truly an honor to be included. ❤️🇺🇸 #middletownnj #portmonmouthnj #veterans #communitypartners #foodislove #foodpantry #forourkids
This cutie collected ingredients for “Birthday Boxes” to donate to our food pantry for her 4th birthday! Every box has cake mix, frosting, sprinkles, candles and other surprises. Because everyone deserves a cake on their birthday! 🍰❤️ #foodpantry #birthdaybox #cakeandfrosting #foodislove #foodinsecurity #redbanknj #highlandsnj #forourkids #servicetoothers
Every Monday evening in March we are giving away an additional special meal at our food pantry. March 7th 5:00 to 7:00 will be pizza kits from @heyitsjulios All are welcome! #foodpantry #redbanknj #middletownnj #foodislove #emergencyfood #forourkids
Valentine’s Day is looking quite chilly. Prefect for our special food pantry where we will be giving out quarts of our turkey pasta soup that we cooked this morning. Our friends at Great Harvest will be baking us rolls and cookies to complete the meals! All kids will be getting Valentines Day goodie bags. We like to say food is love. Looking forward to seeing our clients Monday evening! All are welcome. ❤️🍏#foodpantry #redbanknj #middletownnj #emergencyfood #forourkids #foodislove #foodinsecurity
Thank you to @oakhillmustangs and all of their generous families for this incredible food drive. #lincroftnj #redbanknj #foodpantry #emergencyfood #forourkids #foodislove
Thank you Saige- a High School South freshman who did a front porch food drive and collected 40 bags of food for us ❤️❤️ #fooddrive #backpackcrewnj #middletownnj #emergencyfood #forourkids #foodislove
Mountain Hill School has been a supporter of ours for many years now. Currently they are collecting one item a month to donate to our backpacks and food pantry. This month it’s been much needed cereal!!! Thank you to the school and their families for helping us feed local kids!! ❤️🍏#atlantichighlandsnj #redbanknj #emergencyfood #foodislove #forourkids #foodpantry #middletownnj
For the month of January we joined up with the Mission and Service Committee and United Methodist Women from Red Bank United Methodist Church to supply meals to Family Promise. We have been prepping meals and delivering them to support the local families dealing with homelessness in their program. Today chili, cornbread and brownies were made. Thank you to @sabatos_prime_meats for helping us out with the ground beef! #communitypartners #foodislove #redbanknj #forourkids #emergencyfood #backpackcrewnj
Big thank you to @hudsoncafenj and the Honor Society from Atlantic Highlands Elementary for collecting winter gear for our food pantry. Keeping our families warm and fed this winter! ❤️🍏 #atlantichighlandsnj #redbanknj #middletownnj #emergencyfood #foodislove #foodpantry #forourkids
Monday December 20th! #emergencyfood #foodpantry #redbanknj #middletownnj #foodislove #foodinsecurity #forourkids
Another amazing food drive by @dermerdreams. Making sure local food pantries are stocked heading into the winter months! Always grateful to be included ❤️🍏#foodinsecurity #fairhavennj #middletownnj #fightinghunger #forourkids #community #communitypartners #redbanknj #foodislove
50 Thanksgiving dinners ready to go out next week thanks to our community! In a few hours I had every item covered that we needed. Thank you to everyone involved:
Tiger Schulmann’s Red Bank
Head Space Salon
Learning Tree PreSchool
Girl Scout Troop 327
Cub Scout Troop 205
The Barnao Family
The Herman family and friends
The Gourley-Thompson family
Now to gather our turkeys! ❤️🍏 #backpackcrewnj #foodislove #redbanknj #thanksgiving #givethanks #foodpantry #forourkids #foodinsecurity
Red Bank Crop Walk 2021 happened today! Proud to be one of the 15 local food pantries that benefits from this annual walk. Thank you to all who supported! #redbankcropwalk #cropwalk #foodpantry #redbanknj #foodislove #foodinsecurity