The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) aims to improve the health and nutritional well-being of elderly individuals, 60 years and older, who are vulnerable to malnutrition and are income eligible.

The USDA provides approved USDA Food for grocery packages that are used for home consumption. The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) administers the CSFP through contracts with individual food banks and provides oversight of their operations.

Local organizations distribute the food packages and provide nutrition education to more than 34,000 eligible participants through an agreement with their respected food banks.

Click here for more information.

Our food bank is dedicated to helping people in our community to not go hungry in an emergency situation.  We do this by allowing anyone to receive an emergency supply of food with only a picture identification. We limit this emergency allocation to once every six months.

To qualify you must:

• have a picture identification 

We are always looking for new locations where our Food Pantries could benefit community members. If your organization would like to house a Food Pantry on its grounds, please fill out our Food Pantry Request Form.

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Members of Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church take an active role in feeding the hungry of our community by assisting at the SOS (Spirit of Sharing) Food Bank.

Those who volunteer assist with tasks such as preparing items to be placed in the basic food bags distributed to each person served by the food bank, stocking the shelves, sorting donations, etc.  It is a very fulfilling ministry and as you serve, you know that you are answering the Lord's call to feed the hungry.

Donations of food or money are always welcomed.  A box is located near the elevator of the Parish Center to accept any non-perishable items you may want to donate.

To volunteer or for more information, please contact Elizabet Barker 830-629-5015.

Free.

Here’s how Safe Place works:

Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.

Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).

Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter.  If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter. 

Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.

This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.

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Here’s how Safe Place works:

Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.

Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).

Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter.  If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter. 

Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.

This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.

Free

Here’s how Safe Place works:

Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.

Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).

Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter.  If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter. 

Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.

This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.

Free

The Christian Cupboard offers food to working families and others in need in the community.

Requirements:

• Serving Guadalupe County, but will will not turn anyone away.
• Individuals are interviewed and need (e.g., income and size of family) is established using published criteria.

Free.

The Food Pantry is a collective effort of the parish to help feed the hungry in the community at large. Drop by the church with your donations whenever possible.

Requirements:

• Valid ID.
• Application form with household information.
• Food Distribution is once a month by appointment.

Donations can be made during office hours. A drop box is also located inside the church.

Free.

Mission work is one of the founding principles of our church, and there are many ways to get involved!

Little Free Food Pantry

What started as the Eagle Scout project of one of our high schoolers has grown into a service that provides critical aid to our community. Our Little Free Pantry makes deliveries every other week to several families in the area and also keeps a pantry stocked in our partnered Hill Country MHDD clinic for clients.

Act II Sewing

Act II Sewing is a group of ladies who meet on the third Tuesday of the month at 9:30 am to sew for a good cause. Some of their regular projects are stuffed animals for St. Jude Children’s Home, Presbyterian Children’s Home, and other organizations and occasions where children might need a bit of comfort.

They make clothing protectors, lap blankets, shawls, walker bags, and more for nursing home residents, hospice patients, and Meals on Wheels recipients. You don’t need to be skilled at sewing to help make these projects and more, just come by and lend a hand.

Kids Hope

Kids Hope is a national non-profit organization that partners young students in need with mentors from a local church, who provide a one-on-one relationship dedicated to supporting their growth.

Mentors meet with their students once a week for one hour, helping with homework, providing a listening ear, and being a steady source of support. Canyon Lake Presbyterian Church has been partnered with Kids Hope since 1998. If you would like to be a mentor or a prayer partner, please contact us to learn more.

Partnership with Mental Health Clinic

We are partnered with the Canyon Lake branch of the Hill Country Mental Health and Developmental Disability Center. The fully staffed mental health clinic operates full-time out of our Fellowship Hall and provides mental health, individual developmental disability, and substance abuse services to our community. If you are in need or wish to learn more, go to their website at https://www.hillcountry.org/services/canyon-lake-mh-center/ or call their office at 830-387-5995.

Donations

In addition to all of the more hands-on work we do at Canyon Lake Presbyterian Church, we make donations to many organizations in our local community and the larger world. These include, but are not limited to:

• CRRC Food Pantry
• John Knox Ranch
• Canyon Lake Meals on Wheels
• Mission Presbytery
• Mo-Ranch
• Presbyterian Church USA
• Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
• CARE of Canyon Lake

Click here to Donate

Click here to view the Calendar of Events

The Randolph Area Christian Assistance Program (RACAP) runs an independent, non-profit emergency food pantry. The pantry provides non-perishable food and personal hygiene items to individuals and families who qualify.

Clients are elligible for food assistance every 6 months.

In an effort to serve our friends and neighbors, our charter specifies the following zip codes, designated as Service Delivery Areas:

In an effort to serve our friends and neighbors, our charter specifies the following zip codes, designated as Service Delivery Areas:

• 78108
• 78124
• 78132
• 78148
• 78154
• 78233 (Live Oak only. The document you provide for the help you want MUST HAVE Live Oak 78233 on it for us to provide assistance.)
• 78247
• 78266

Click here for more information about the application process.

Please call 210-658-1613 and speak to the Director or Assistant Director before you come to the office.

Our Community First Food Pantries are designed to provide members of our community who are facing food insecurity essential non-perishable items at accessible and trusted locations throughout San Antonio and surrounding counties.

The mission of Community First Food Pantries is to help in the fight against food insecurity by supplying food and other items without barriers for those in immediate need while acting as a catalyst, inspiring others to give alongside us. 

Our vision is a Community First Food Pantry in every local community, so those in need can access food and other items when needed.

What is a Community First Food Pantry?

• Accessible 24/7
• Free-standing, weatherproof, and conveniently located outdoors. (Maintenance and upkeep are provided by Community First.)
• 100% FREE; no cost, no registration, no sign-up
• Take what you need and give back what and when you can.

Free

Converse FBC operates a food pantry ministry in affiliation with the San Antonio Food Bank. It is open to all who are in need of food assistance for themselves or their families. We will serve as many as possible with the food we have to share.

• Valid Id Required

Here’s how Safe Place works:

Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.

Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).

Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter.  If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter. 

Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.

This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.

Free

Our goal is to provide practical teaching, heartfelt worship, authentic friendships, meaningful prayer and genuine care for those in need.

Requirements:

• ALL recipients must pre-register by calling 210-606-3875, the Wednesday-Friday before food distribution.
• Household information and income questionnaire.
• Must reside in Bexar County.

Our food distribution is curbside delivery.

Free.

Our Food Pantry is a reflection of our desire to "exhibit on-the-spot generosity," as our pastor puts it, helping and serving our neighbors with their immediate needs.

In partnership with Daisy Cares, pet food is also available during our Food Pantry operation. We have a limited supply, so come early.

Distribution is done from our Fellowship Hall, which is located in the rear parking lot.

Requirements:

• Application with household members and information.
• Valid ID, if available.
• We encourage our clients to come no more than twice a month.
• Drive-Thru food distribution.
• Daisy Cares Program, dog and cat food when available.

Free.

Blessed Angels Community Center is an emergency food pantry. We are committed to helping low-income families and veterans, senior citizens, evacuees, homeless people, and pets.

The mission of Blessed Angels Community Center is to fight hunger in San Antonio, TX and surrounding communities through healthy and nutritional food distribution. We are here to provide educational programs and resources while giving hope and compassion to citizens in need of food assistance and make sure no child or citizen goes to bed hungry.

Our passion is helping those in need. We offer emergency food assistance weekly by appointment, and each family receives a variety of nutritional perishable and nonperishable food items.

Blessed Angels Community Center is an emergency food pantry. Our passion is helping those in need. We offer emergency food assistance weekly by appointment, and each family receives a variety of nutritional perishable and nonperishable food items.

Seniors only.

We are always looking for new locations where our Food Pantries could benefit community members. If your organization would like to house a Food Pantry on its grounds, please fill out our Food Pantry Request Form.

How Can You Help?

• Stop by one of our Food Pantry locations when it’s convenient for you and drop off needed non-perishable donation(s).
• Volunteer your site to house a Food Pantry.
• Contact Us for other ways you can help.

Free

Helping those in need.

We use a client choice model to provide emergency food boxes to anyone who comes through our doors.

Our Community First Food Pantries are designed to provide members of our community who are facing food insecurity essential non-perishable items in accessible and trusted locations throughout San Antonio and surrounding counties

The mission of Community First Food Pantries is to help in the fight against food insecurity by supplying food and other items without barriers for those in immediate need while acting as a catalyst, inspiring others to give alongside us. 

Our vision is a Community First Food Pantry in every local community, so those in need can access food and other items when needed.

What is a Community First Food Pantry?

• 24/7 Access - Open seven days a week, 24 hours a day, and freely accessible to all, removing barriers to food access.
• Free-Standing, Weather-Proof, and Conveniently Located Outdoors
• Maintenance and upkeep are provided by Community First.
• 100% Free - No Cost, No Registration, No Sign-Up. Take what you need and give back what and when you can.

We are always looking for new locations where our Food Pantries could benefit community members. If your organization would like to house a Food Pantry on its grounds, please fill out our Food Pantry Request Form.

How Can You Help?

• Stop by one of our Food Pantry locations when it’s convenient for you and drop off needed non-perishable donation(s).
• Volunteer your site to house a Food Pantry.
• Contact Us for other ways you can help.

Free

We provide emergency non-perishable food items to walk-ins when the church is open.

The San Antonio Food Bank will distribute food on the first Thursday of each month to serve the projected 250 households with much-needed nourishment. Food insecurity is still a reality, and with the summer months approaching and kids out of school, the need for food increases. While Supplies Last, first come, first serve.

We ask for YOUR help. We need your plastic grocery bags (about 500 every month), volunteers to welcome and register our "neighbors," and bags of groceries to help get these bags of food in cars as they drive through the food line.

The food truck will arrive between 7:00 AM and 8:30 AM, and the food distribution will be from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Please consider how you may help and see how the community comes together in need.

Requirements:

• Application with Household Members and Information

Free.

We offer non-perishable food items only. Please be prepared to carry your bags to your vehicle, as we may not have enough volunteers to assist you with this need.

If you would like to volunteer to help in the food pantry, call the church office for more information at 210-654-0404 or email Francyne Underwood.

The food pantry is located in the rear parking lot of the church, please follow the signs in the parking lot.

Click here if you would like to donate to the food pantry.

Free.

Our Community First Food Pantries are designed to provide members of our community who are facing food insecurity essential non-perishable items in accessible and trusted locations throughout San Antonio and surrounding counties.

The mission of Community First Food Pantries is to help in the fight against food insecurity by supplying food and other items without barriers for those in immediate need while acting as a catalyst, inspiring others to give alongside us. 

Our vision is a Community First Food Pantry in every local community, so those in need can access food and other items when needed.

What is a Community First Food Pantry?

• 24/7 Access - Open seven days a week, 24 hours a day, and freely accessible to all, removing barriers to food access.
• Free-Standing, Weather-Proof, and Conveniently Located Outdoors - Maintenance and upkeep provided by Community First.
• 100% Free - No Cost, No Registration, No Sign-Up. Take what is needed and give back what and when you can.

We are always looking for new locations where our Food Pantries could benefit community members. If your organization would like to house a Food Pantry on its grounds, please fill out our Food Pantry Request Form.

How Can You Help?

• Stop by one of our Food Pantry locations when it’s convenient for you and drop off needed non-perishable donation(s).
• Volunteer your site to house a Food Pantry.
• Contact Us for other ways you can help.

Free

The pantry provides food staples such as rice, beans, macaroni and cheese, tuna, juice, peanut butter and jelly, canned and frozen vegetables, canned fruit, cereal, soup, spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, crackers, sugar and meat and fresh produce when available.

The Northern Hills food pantry is operated in partnership with the San Antonio Food Bank.

Requirements:

• Valid ID
• Application with household information and members
• Government Assistance, if any
• Income Verification
• Serving zip codes 78209, 78216,78217, 78218, 78219,78233, 78239, 78247

Free

Our Community First Food Pantries are designed to provide members of our community who are facing food insecurity essential non-perishable items in accessible and trusted locations throughout San Antonio and surrounding counties.

The mission of Community First Food Pantries is to help in the fight against food insecurity by supplying food and other items without barriers for those in immediate need while acting as a catalyst, inspiring others to give alongside us. 

Our vision is a Community First Food Pantry in every local community, so those in need can access food and other items when needed.

What is a Community First Food Pantry?

• 24/7 Access - Open seven days a week, 24 hours a day and freely accessible to all, removing barriers to food access.
• Free-Standing, Weather-Proof, and Conveniently Located Outdoors - Maintenance and up keep provided by Community First.
• 100% Free - No Cost, No Registration, No Sign-Up. Take what is needed and give back what and when you can.

We are always looking for new locations where our Food Pantries could benefit community members. If your organization would like to house a Food Pantry on its grounds, please fill out our Food Pantry Request Form.

How Can You Help?

• Stop by one of our Food Pantry locations when it’s convenient for you and drop off needed non-perishable donation(s).
• Volunteer your site to house a Food Pantry.
• Contact Us for other ways you can help.

Free.

We provide needy people with food, household necessities, clothing, and service referrals.

We will also provide groceries and goods one time to individuals or families who live outside of our service area, as well as provide information and referrals to direct them to appropriate service providers in their residential area. No one in need is ever turned away empty-handed.

Requirements:

• Photo ID.
• Proof of Residency (i.e., utility bill).
• Serving zip codes: 78163, 78070, 78258 and 78260.
• Please bring your shopping bags.

Free.

FreeFood.org is about helping people. We created this website as a resource for users to find and add free food resources locally and nationwide.

This free food resource list is by no means all-inclusive. We are always looking for more resources.

If you know of a food resource that is not included here, please submit new food pantries, food coupon resources, and food banks to our database by ADDING A LISTING. Please provide full information.