Pentecostal Lighthouse Church

Food Drive

Our Local Shelters Need Your Help!

When you stop at the local dollar store, please pick up a extra item for someone else. These items will be given to the homeless on the street as well as the local shelters. For more info on this ministry please contact us on the contact us @

plchurch@bellsouth.net or office@plcchurch.net

Items Needed

TOOTHBRUSHES

DEODORANT

BODY WASH

WASH CLOTHS

ANTIBACTERICAL WIPES

TOOTHPASTE

RAINCOATS

SMALL TOYS

COLORING BOOKS

BIBLES

LITERATURE

RESEALABLE AND NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS

BLANKETS

FLASH LIGHT

BATTERIES

FREEZER BAGS (to store items in)

"One of the most disturbing and extraordinary aspects of life in this very wealthy country is the persistence of hunger. For 1 in 6 Americans, hunger is a reality. Many people believe that the problems associated with hunger are confined to small pockets of society, certain areas of the country, or certain neighborhoods, but the reality is much different."

Help us stop hunger in North Alabama by donating to the Pentecostal Lighthouse Church Food Bank.

Food Hunger Facts

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that in 2010:

National Data:

Of the 48.8 million people living in food insecurity, 32.6 million are adults (14.2 percent of all adults) and 16.2 million are children (21.6 percent of all children).
16.1 million people lived in households that were considered to have "very low food security," that means one or more people in the household were hungry over the course of the year because of the inability to afford enough food.
Black (25.1 percent) and Hispanic (26.2 percent) households experienced food insecurity at far higher rates than the national average.

Alabama Data:

19.2% of Alabama's population is food insecure -that equates to 919,670 people (Feeding America, Map the Meal Gap)
Families' struggle to afford necessities follows closely on their employment status and wagesand the most basic necessity is food.
According to FRAC, Alabama has the 2nd highest food hardship rate in the nation (25.2% of the population)