St. Hyacinth's Food Pantry 

This is a new program to help poor people, employed or not, sustain their families by giving them food once a month to supplement their groceries.  We help sort and distribute food on Wednesdays from 4:00 – 6:00 pm. 
This food program serves households which include single adults, unrelated groups of adults sharing a residence, nuclear families, and extended families, people whose ethnicity is Latino, Mexican, African, Asian and Caucasian.  We serve infants and seniors, persons with disabilities and homeless persons, people who are unemployed and underemployed.  This past year we became an Infant Care Site so now we provide formula to children less than one year of age.

Are you interested in sharing in a person-to-person ministry, literally giving people the bread of life?  Over twenty members of St. Anthony on the Lake Parish have volunteered at least once at St. Hyacinth Food Pantry, with most of them returning every week or at least once a month.

Many of you have donated plastic and paper bags for the clients to carry their food home in, food items and personal hygiene and baby clothes, diapers and wipes.  The clients and volunteers at the pantry thank you for your generosity.

You are warmly invited to carpool to St. Hyacinth Emergency Food Pantry any Wednesday afternoon.  Located at 1414 W. Becher Street, the pantry is open every Wednesday from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.  Our clients are persons with low incomes who live in Milwaukee zip code areas 53215 and 53204 south of Mitchell Street.  They come once a month to get enough food to last three to five days.  Every client receives protein, starch, fruit, vegetables, dairy and miscellaneous food in accordance with the federal guidelines in the healthy food guide pyramid.  Fresh foods are distributed according to season and availability.

The guiding principle of the pantry comes from Matthew 25:35, 40:  “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat.  I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink.  Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”

Our primary mission is to feed the hungry, and we do so with compassion as we also provide on-site nursing assistance.  Our goal is to continue to extend food availability to our growing numbers of clients as the economy hits family incomes harder and harder. To learn more about hunger in our area check out the website for Hunger Task Force.

If you want to volunteer or learn more about the pantry, please call Ginny or John Shebesta at (262) 695-0428.