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About the Wildwood Food Pantry
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The Food Pantry has been in
Wildwood and assisting those in need for 24 years. In 2003, operating from the Sunset
Park Church of God, the pantry became part of the United Way's Human Care Network
of Lake and Sumter Counties. The Wildwood Food Pantry moved to its current
home at the Wildwood United
Methodist Church, 300 North
Old Wire Street, in May 2005. Volunteers from area churches and our communities operate
and support the food pantry. It is an ALL Volunteer organization; there are no
paid positions.
The
Wildwood Food Pantry is open to eligible recipients for three hours on the 1st &
3rd Fridays of each month, but emergency distribution is sometimes needed and
can be arranged. Each day that the Food Pantry is open, it provides healthful
food to families in Wildwood, Coleman, Oxford, and other North Sumter County
areas. A Salvation Army representative is also on hand on the days the
pantry is open to assist people with their rent, utilities, etc.
People eligible to receive these food supplements are carefully screened and
must live in northern Sumter County. Those eligible are families/people who are
on food stamps, on Medicaid, live in public housing (funded by municipal,
county, state or federal governments), receive Temporary Assistance to Needy
Families (TANF), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), or meet income
guidelines for receiving assistance through Florida's Emergency Food
Assistance Program.
The food that is distributed on these two days of the month comes from
regular ongoing food drives at Hope Lutheran Church and New Covenant United
Methodist Church. There are also semi-annual drives at the First Baptist Church
in The Villages, the Fairway Christian Church, and food
drives like ours. The annual Seeds of Hope drive held in The Villages area in
the Spring also
provides a good source of donated food and funds. The rest of the food is
purchased from area food banks and local supermarkets.
The Wildwood Food Pantry also partners with The Salvation Army's Human
Care Network Food Distribution Program and The United Way of Sumter and Lake
Counties, which allows Pantry coordinators to receive funds and purchase needed food from area
food banks and food markets.
The Food Pantry also gratefully accepts monetary donations. Please help those less fortunate. Monetary
donations may be sent to:
Wildwood United Methodist Church
(church office)
Wildwood Food Pantry UMC 300 Mason Street Wildwood, FL 34785
For more information or to learn how else you can help, email Pantry
Coordinator
Don Huggins
(click on link to copy email address)
or call 352-753-7901.

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