OUTREACH
We partner with Harry Chapin Food Bank, other organizations, and churches to offer a world-class outreach program every Wednesday from 9am-10:30am.
We offer: Food, clothing, healthcare, ID assistance, bikes, and hot lunches!
If you are looking to volunteer contact the church office for more information, we need your help!
Donations of canned or non-expired perishable food can be dropped off at the Thrift Store receiving door during business hours.
We appreciate your support.
Our Outreach Ministry Story.......
The mission of our Outreach ministry is to assist members of our community who are in financial need through our weekly food pantry. We provide a weeks worth of groceries, a hot nutritious lunch, clothing from our thrift store, and nursing services for health monitoring, education and resources referrals. The program also helps clients in obtaining certified copies of required documentation for Florida State Identification so that they can apply for financial services, housing assistance, Medicare care, food stamps and employment.
The Outreach Ministry program serves approximately 150-200 families per week. The program is staffed by 35-40 volunteers each week from many service partners including local home parks, churches and service groups.
The Outreach Gazette
March 2026 Edition
Outreach bids snowbird volunteers goodbye
As spokesperson for All Souls Outreach Ministry thanks all its snowbird volunteers for their hard work during season and wishes them safe travels to their summer homes. The program will certainly miss them and hopes they will return next winter season.
All Souls Outreach officially joins Publix Supermarkets & Harry Chapin’s Retail program.
All Souls Outreach has been partnering with Publix Supermarkets, picking up donated foodstuffs such as meat, bakery items, deli, produce, and dairy products for several years. By joining Chapin’s official program, Outreach helps Publix in its tax deductions and then qualifies for future grants and assistance from the Chapin organization. The Gazette reports that Outreach Ministry Leaders are enthusiastic about this new partnership.
Outreach Success Secrets Exposed
The Gazette has learned practices employed by All Souls Outreach to ensure operational successes. To limit the time volunteers must work as well as the time clients must wait in line during hot or inclement weather; several “secret practices” are employed. As developed initially by volunteer Karen Gilbert, clients are greeted as they arrive and asked for their ID number. This number is then reported to the registration desk, eliminating the need for each client to stop and register. The result is a quicker process time for all except first time visitors. Clients are also given a “line number” currently, which resolves who is in what line position to enter. This practice eliminates arguments about which order clients may enter. This procedure is then coupled with the desired flow of the number of clients allowed to enter. Obviously, if the doors were thrown open at opening and 300 people tried to enter at the same
time, someone would get hurt. Volunteer Carmen Argenziano determined the optimal number of client entries to be 160 families per hour. This number allows a fluid flow of clients to enter safely and still holds our total Outreach time to less than two hours or 320 families. Volunteer hours are held to a minimum, and all clients are served
timely. A win/win scenario for all. Teamwork secrets produce success.
Outreach Ministry Leaders Invited to Chapin Quarterly Board Meeting
The Gazette has learned that All Souls Outreach Ministry Leaders have been included for Harry Chapin Food Bank’s quarterly Board Meeting. All Souls hopes closer ties with Chapin Food Bank will enhance their ministry for all its clients and volunteers.
Outreach Gazette 3/5/26 All Rights Reserved
Outreach Ministry Leaders:
Charlie Thompson
Beth Rathman
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