The Bread for Life Food Pantry in Gloucester is making a big change. The charitable organization, which has been serving the county since 2009, will be moving out of its cramped quarters in a former garage adjacent to St. Therese Read More
Volunteers from Bread for Life were joined by some volunteers from the Virginia Peninsula Food Bank to pick some corn that was planted for us by Ray Rilee. We picked enough to fill two trucks. Our clients always look forward Read More
The Abingdon Woman’s Club has donated two benches made from plastic bags to the Bread for Life food ministry in Gloucester. Shown on the donation, front row from left, are Bread for Life executive director Monique Raposa and Jim Raposa; back Read More
Bread for Life has purchased the old Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall on Route 14. There is a ton of stuff that we need to do before we are actually ready to move, so we don’t have an actual move date Read More
Gloucester’s Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department recently donated $400 of proceeds from its 2020 Christmas and Holiday Parade, “Hometown Holiday” Mini-Virtual Edition to the Bread for Life Community Food Pantry located in Gloucester Court House. The pandemic forced this year’s Read More
The Gloucester Sheriff’s Department held a food drive this month to support all of the local food pantries. Organized by the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank, this annual event has helped hundreds of families fight off food insecurity. Thanks to the Gloucester Read More
Ware Academy students participated in a reverse Advent calendar this holiday season. They were tasked with bringing specific items each day, resulting in a donation of 3,155 pounds of food to the Bread for Life food pantry. Making the delivery Read More
We had our Turkey Distribution today at Woodville Park. We had wonderful weather and no major back-ups. Since it was so dry we were able to park the Food Lion Semi, yes Semi! in the gravel parking lot on Read More
Thanks to the generosity of the Yorktown Rotary, Bread for Life got a new wrap for the truck and a commercial stand-up freezer.
After a few months of “drive thru” food distribution, we are finally back in the food pantry with a good assortment of fresh produce, a great variety of meat, milk and dairy products. Although it is difficult to keep fresh Read More