Shively, Rose Good, Juanita Lillicrap, Dawn Pullman, Back-Cindy Pearson, Roger Lillicrap, Reggie Stevens. Not pictured-Beecher Lynne, Laura Stephens, Greg Stephens, Ron Pearson Jr., David Pullman, Lillian Bayman, Beryl Flesh, Violet Das. The St. James food pantry now serves as many as 12-15 guests in a day. Guests are limited to one shopping trip per month. This is controlled by a simple punch card system.
Some guests come regularly every month.
Others come because the grocery money had to be spent on medicine for the children that month or they do not qualify for other programs. The growth of the food pantry has had a profound impact on the parish. Parishioners are here all the time now. People are coming in to staff the pantry for the day, shop, pack bags of groceries, or put away grocery deliveries all day. Often parishioners just drop by to see what is going on.