Joseph Plan Pantry

Objective: Simple, follow in Jesus’ footsteps and feed the multitude.

Mission: Fill the cupboards of the people of Pike Township so their focus can be on God, family, and jobs/better jobs, not on where their next meal will come from.

We have expanded to include nutritional food for creating healthier meals.
Jesus showed benevolence to all. He fed both His disciples and the multitude
Physical food gave the disciples both the strength and the opportunity to teach the multitude. We will be following that same path.

Joseph Plan Pantry Operations Inception and History Food Give Away Dates How To Register Evangelism available at the Pantry

Joseph Plan Pantry Operations

Upon Entry:

Show your Picture ID
Show your Pantry Card (or Registration form for first time visitors)
We are a Client Choice Pantry. This means you may choose any items
- There will be ONE pass thru the line.
- Quantities given are based upon supply and Pantry Staff decisions. We are a Client Choice Pantry.
If you forget your card, there will be NO service. You may go and get your card and return for service.

Serving Times:
We are open from 11:00 am ‘til 1:00 pm. (Or the food is all gone)
To better aid you in when to come, the registration number service is as
follows:

11:00 – 11:30
Senior Citizens, Handicapped and Disabled (Card Numbers 100 – 299)
Senior Citizen is defined as 65 and older

11:30 – 1:00
All other Individuals and Families (Card Numbers 300 – 899)

Inception and History

Luke 9:12-17, Now the day was ending, and the twelve came and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and get something to eat; for here we are in a desolate place.” But He
said to them, “You give them something to eat!” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and buy food for all these people.” (For there were about five thousand men.) And He said to His disciples, “Have them
sit down to eat in groups of about fifty each.” They did so, and had them all sit down. Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them, and broke them, and kept giving them to the disciples to set before the people. And they
all ate and were satisfied; and the broken pieces which they had let over were picked up, twelve baskets full.
(American Standard Version)

Genesis 41: 25 – 36, And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, the dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven good cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. And the seven thin and ugly
cows that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blighted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do He sheweth unto Pharaoh. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall deplete the food of the land; And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous. And for that the dream was repeated unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up grain under the authority of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And that food shall be for a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. (King James Version)

We are not by any means suggesting that there will be a seven year famine. However, what Joseph told Pharaoh to do is a wise thing. We went through the drought in 2012, which lessened the food quantity. Crops of vegetables were burned with the hot dry weather. Less vegetable crops meant less food for the herds to eat, therefore there was less meat, of course, at much higher prices. Thus, the inception of the
JOSEPH PLAN PANTRY.

Food Give Away Dates

How To Register

1.Fill out the Joseph Plan Pantry Registration Form.
On your first visit to the Pantry, you are to bring:
- Filled out registration form (paper copy only). Registation forms are also available at the panty.
- Picture ID Required
2. Once you register with the Pantry, you can come each month.
3. You will receive your personal Pantry card the next month.
4. Picture ID is always required to participate.

Evangelism available at the Pantry

We pray with every Pantry Client who wishes to have prayer.
We do our best to aide any Pantry Clients new to the area, looking for a new church home, or having crisis in their lives.
We also have different Bible Studies available
- Bible Correspondence Courses
- Back to the Bible Study Course
- Search for the Truth Bible Study Course
- The One True Church Bible Study Course
- Your Relationship with God Bible Study Course