The Crisis Ministry is committed to easing the hardships of poverty in our community by providing food, financial assistance, and advocacy.
Trenton Location:
123 East Hanover Street
Trenton, NJ 08608
609-396-9355
Store Hours: Monday – Friday
9:00 am - 12 noon
(Office Hours: M– F, 9-5)
Princeton Location:
Nassau Presbyterian Church
61 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ 08542
609-921-2135
Pantry/Office hours:
Monday – Friday,
1:30 - 4:00 pm
• Help fill our shelves when you go grocery shopping by coordinating a food drive.
Download a SHOPPING LIST with food ideas. Or email Food Services Director MARK SMITH about coordinating a drive.
• Looking for a way to volunteer your time and talents? Click here.
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donate to our Utilities Budget this season.
• Spring 2008 newsletter
• Fall 2007 newsletter
Services
Food Program
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 1,100 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.