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Second Street Pantry of First UMC Bentonville - Downtown

Second Street Pantry of First UMC Bentonville - Downtown

Bentonville, AR, US

Connect with those experiencing poverty by providing basic physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Our hope is that we will always be able to help. We want people to come to our church to be fed, to be warmed and to experience the Love of Christ.

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Second Street Pantry was founded as a Benton County community outreach ministry of the First United Methodist Church in Downtown Bentonville in February of 2011.  Since that time, we have provided groceries to feed approximately 40,000 clients in their homes; we have helped over 900 families with benevolence funds; and we have shared over a thousand free hot dinners with our hungry clients.  We are open 50 weeks a year - every week except the weeks of Christmas and New Years.  We currently operate four programs as part of this important ministry: food pantry, benevolence, community meals, and snack packs. 

This fundraiser is focused on raising funds for our Benevolence Outreach Program.

Many individuals and families in our community occasionally have short-term funding needs due to a job loss, a medical emergency, or other life changes. We have a screening process and require documentation of need to determine eligibility for assistance. For those clients who have a shutoff notice from a utility, our program will provide funds to pay a client’s utility bill via a check written directly to the utility.  We also provide a voucher written to a local gas station to provide $25 in gas for clients who have immediate transportation needs (a new job, a medical visit, etc.) Our Benevolence Outreach is available to all residents of Benton County with the exception of Rogers where other another benevolence program exists.

In the two and half years that we have been monitoring this program, we have helped approximately 900 different families.   Of those 900 families, 70% have asked for and received funding from our program only one time, even though our guidelines would allow them to utilize the program more if needed.  The average client payment is about $100.

Unfortunately, we continually turn away clients from this program as our funds do not meet current demand, particularly in the April-June and October-December time frames. We would like to source additional funds to help additional clients in need of benevolence.





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