• Food
• Homelessness Prevention
• Advocacy

Partnering with our COMMUNITY
to achieve
STABILITY
for our
NEIGHBORS
in need.

Trenton Location:

123 East Hanover Street
Trenton, NJ 08608
ph: 609-396-9355
fax: 609-396-5692

Trenton Store Hours:
Monday – Friday
9:00 am – 12 noon
Trenton office hours:
M – F, 9 – 5

Princeton Location:

Nassau Presbyterian Church
61 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ 08542
609-921-2135

Princeton Pantry/Office hours:
Monday – Thursday
1:30 - 4:00 pm
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Services

Food

The essential goal of Crisis Ministry's Food Program is to prevent hunger by providing nutritious food for low-income people in Mercer County. Those who receive food from our client-choice store and pantry include:

• people of all races with many Spanish-speaking people
• elderly and disabled people with incomes from $500 to 800 per month
• working families with children with one or two parents with incomes ranging from $800 to $2500 a month
• individuals or families receiving welfare with incomes of $140 to $500 per month

We welcome volunteers from congregations, schools, businesses, and organizations as well as our customers, community service workers and welfare-to-work participants. Our resulting community receives its strength from its diversity and its shared goals. Our welfare-to-work program Harvesting Hope offers on-the-job training in our food store for participants preparing for employment in the retail sector.

In collaboration with the Rutgers Extension Service we offer a weekly nutrition class for our food customers. The six-week course educates up to 15 people at a time in making healthful food choices and preparing nutritious meals with recipes to try at home. 

We currently assist an average of 1,300 Trenton households and 90 Princeton area households with food each month.  Each month about 120 people who are disabled or elderly and homebound receive a delivery of food from a Crisis Ministry volunteer in addition to the people who come to the store. Teams of caring volunteers deliver the food to the disabled or elderly people.