Help Feed Our Neighbors in Need

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Feeding our guests twice a day, and providing nutrition when we are not open, is a priority at Hope Center. Our kitchen is a serve and warm only facility and not a commercial cooking kitchen. We depend on the generosity of donors for meals and Manna Bags (food “to go” to have when Hope Center isn’t open). We usually serve breakfast and lunch to more than 600 guests each week, plus manna bags, snacks, and even dinner service when open during evenings as an emergency shelter.

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BREAKFAST ITEMS

  • Fruit – canned (#10) or individual fruit cups
  • Cereal

  • Flavored instant oatmeal

  • Ground coffee
  • Creamer
  • Peanut butter – creamy
  • Jelly/jam

  • Protein bars

  • Canned vegetables 

  • Cream cheese
  • Butter
  • Precooked and packaged hard-boiled eggs
  • Cheese sticks
  • Juice box

  • Granulated sugar packets or container

Lunch Donations

All prepared meals must be made in a COMMERCIAL KITCHEN or RESTAURANT.

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If you have any questions, please contact Josh@hopecenterhouston.org

  • Sandwiches, sandwich trays or wraps

  • Casseroles, pizza and salad
  • Cooked Vegetables
  • Individual Chip bags
  • Canned goods: chili, soup, beans, corn, chicken, tuna, diced tomatoes
  • Boxed instant mashed potatoes
  • Condiments – mustard, ketchup, salad dressing, BBQ sauce, marinara sauce, hot sauce
  • Powdered Instant Iced Tea Mix

MANNA BAGS

Manna Bags provide nourishment when Hope Center Houston is not open. We gratefully accept any or all of the items listed. If your organization would like to provide complete Manna bags, they must include the following:

  • A protein that must be either a can or pouch of tuna or chicken, Vienna sausage, or a protein bar. No exceptions.

  • A fruit, either a box of raisins, an individual serving of a fruit cup or pouch, a fruit and grain bar, or a pouch of fruit snacks

  • A carbohydrate such as a packet of peanut butter crackers, a granola bar, cookies, or some kind of snack

  • Non-perishable snacks, ie. nuts, chips, beef jerky, trail mix, in individual packages

  • 1-16 oz. A bottle of water

  • Individually wrapped candy or breath mint

Other items that may be added and are appreciated by the guests include chips, extra protein such as Slim Jim-type sausage sticks, extra fruit, and candy. Contact us if you have any questions.

Please do not include any non-food items in the manna bags.

PAPER GOODS

  • Small paper plates and bowls
  • Luncheon napkins
  • Plastic utensils
  • Styrofoam 8oz coffee cups,
  • Plastic 8-oz drink cups
  • 2-gallon freezer Ziplock bags
  • Restaurant size foil and plastic wrap

KSBJ Comes to Hope Center to feed our guests and visit with all of us!

Thanks to Our Food Donors and Sponsors

Ronald Zeitler donates milk and Little Debbie’s every week.

 

Paul, with the Knights of Columbus, delivers baked goods from Kroger every Tuesday.

Pizza Zone is donating pizza and salad to feed 70 people every Tuesday for the rest of the year. Josh, with Aaron Lynam, the GM, and his parents, are the owners.

Mary Thompson, on her own, picks up leftover bread from Jimmy John’s twice a week.

 

Klein United Methodist Church is partnering with Hope Center Houston to provide hot meals and hope to our city’s most vulnerable.